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De Pimentel Brandao

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“Let us not relent in the noble striving for peace and the strengthening of peaceful and fruitful relations among all the nations of the world.”
1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)
“Under-developed countries look forward to a swifter increase in their per capita income through increasing productivity, both in range and in depth. 96. It is a matter of importance that, thanks to their excellent experts and executive organs, the United Nations and its specialized agencies will gradually and indefatigably not only pursue the technical assistance activities^ but also establish schemes of international co-operation for the financing of economic development. This policy cannot fail to be implemented, and it will lay the foundations for a firmer world economic order. 97. It is my country’s heartfelt hope that peace will prevail in Korea. Need I say that peace is indeed the main goal of the United Nations? The tragic lesson learned in Korea will not have been learned in vain.”
1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)
“It is absolutely necessary that the United Nations should give the greatest amount of time and attention to the gigantic economic problems that distress vast regions of most of the under-developed countries. It is indeed advisable to note that collective security of an economic nature should coexist with the classic idea of collective security in the political and juridical domains. Although it is already outlined in the Charter, this concept deserves to be thoroughly explored, thus permitting a practical solution designed to allow underdeveloped countries to meet the pressures resulting from an imbalance in the economic levels and the rate of economic growth of the different nations. 95. In this particular field, the work of the United Nations is bound to bring immediate results.”
1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)
“Vicente Rao, who represented Brazil at the General Assembly in 1950, has already emphasized the paramountcy of the juridical order over transitory issues which arise as a result of the desire of certain Powers for expansion. 93. The present session of the General Assembly is required to consider the serious political and economic questions on whose solution rests the assurance of lasting-'world peace. Among these problems, I wish to refer to the reduction of armaments, economic aid to under-developed countries, technical assistance, human rights and the ironing out of the conflict between the nationalistic spirit of the young, nations and the so-called colonial order. 94.”
1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)
“The division of the world into two ideologically opposed blocs, and the cultural, economic and political antagonisms which have resulted from this split, have not been strong enough to undermine the foundations of the Organization. On the contrary, this unfortunate division has acted as a true catalyst. It has actually enhanced the power of endurance of the United Nations. 92. We are in truth not creators but interpreters of the profound aspirations of mankind. It is our mission to seize the main currents of world public opinion, which seeks the betterment of the economic, social and moral conditions of the individual and the perfecting of the international community. The present Minister for External Relations of Brazil, the eminent professor, Dr.”
1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)
“May I indulge in the hope that the Soviet Union will eventually join with those who seriously consider the possibility of carrying out the revision of the United Nations Charter so as to make it a better tool in the political and juridical fields. 90. As the representative of a peace-loving nation, earnestly devoted to the juridical rules and moral principles which should guide international society, I should like to stress that our main wish is that the work of the United Nations may grow from year to year in order to afford better protection to sacred human rights and to mutual respect among nations and in order to strengthen the ties among all peoples. 91.”
1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)
“This instinctive will to live is, in fact, an irresistible force that cannot be ignored by anyone. The proof of this is that even those who voice the most violent criticism of the efficiency of our Organization are nevertheless most anxious to keep it alive. 89. If the government of a big Power, such as the Soviet Union, criticizes the actions of the Organization and repeatedly expresses its displeasure at the manner in which our problems have been dealt with by the United Nations, it would seem natural and, I should say, logical to expect this government to be, in theory or in practice, in favour of the revision of the Charter.”
1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)
“If in fact the Charter of the United Nations contains flaws and imperfections, and if we all are aware of their existence, why not tackle this problem and try to find a remedy for it? The Charter is not only a political and juridical document that serves as a guide and a code of discipline; the Charter is indeed the expression of a kind of political, juridical and moral plebiscite which voices the yearnings of our world. 88. The peoples of our time, those of big, small or medium Powers, long for law and justice, both in the national and international fields. War has become more and more murderous and destructive, threatening the very existence of human society. It is probably this instinct, of self-preservation in the human species that has inspired the creation of this political body.”
1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)
“I should like to add that, if more has not been accomplished, the responsibility should not be placed entirely on the Organization; it has mainly resulted from political currents and counter-currents which have exerted great influence on the solutions to the problems under consideration. 87. In my opinion, it is necessary that sooner or later we proceed, in the prescribed order, with the revision of the Charter, so that the Organization may be in a better position to accomplish its aims to the fullest and thereby eliminate the criticisms that have been levelled against it. This revision should be undertaken in an objective and impartial manner, taking advantage of the lessons learned from the experience acquired in the course of the past years.”
1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)
“These imperfections and shortcomings are the aftermath of the throes of the immediate post-war period. One of the highest juridical and diplomatic authorities in my country, Mr. Raul Fernandes, former Minister for External Relations, once remarked that nowadays the world is granted but a “moratorium of peace”. 85. The danger to be averted is that this growing scepticism with regard to the action of the United Nations should succeed in contaminating minds that up to now have been inspired by constructive realism. 86. In all truth — and this is my deep belief — it is now an established fact that world public opinion reposes its trust in the United Nations. If one were to draw up a brief balance of the activities and achievements of the United Nations, it would be immediately clear that its assets are already considerable.”
1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)
“Nonetheless, with the broadening of this field of action, we are faced with an upsurge of scepticism. Those who find fault with the practical results of the action of the United Nations contend that much more could have been accomplished; that the world is still divided into two opposing blocs, that certain major problems have been dealt with only superficially, and that hesitations and the alternation of progress and setbacks has done great harm to some endeavours of the Organization, which offered, at the start, promising possibilities. I do not deny that up to a certain point those criticisms might be well-founded. We should, however, point out that the Organization, owing to the very fact that it was born out of a profound political chaos, is handicapped by certain unavoidable imperfections and shortcomings.”
1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)
“His personal qualifications, as we have already come to know them in the short period since his election, are a guarantee for the good handling of matters pertaining to the United Nations, as well as for the creation of a better climate for understanding among the-major Powers. 83. Year by year, the United Nations is widening its field of action. Political, economic, cultural and juridical imperatives, in short, all the free forces of international life, are transforming the General Assembly of the United Nations into a real world forum In this hall are voiced the opinions of all geographic groups, as well as all political ideologies and all the yearnings towards the betterment of economic and social conditions of mankind, the strengthening of world harmony and the observance of the universally proclaimed principles of law. 84.”
1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)
“81. Before making my statement, I wish to say how much my Government, my delegation and I myself have been gratified at the election of Mrs. Pandit as President of the eighth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Our satisfaction springs from two sources: first because of the fact that, as the head of the Indian delegation, she represents a country dear to the hearts of all Brazilians and one which has been a relentless worker for the cause of freedom and peace; and secondly, because of the fact that the President of this Assembly is a distinguished lady whose charming personal gifts are not second to her political experience. 82. I should like to add a word of congratulations to Mr. Hammarskjold, the Secretary-General of our Organization.”
1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)
“Our Organization, an the form in which we have planned it, has received from all nations the task of imparting substance and form and shape to these new aspirations, of creating a link between the achievements of the past and the promises of the future, between thought and action, between the ideas which inspire us and the aims which in the spirit of the Charter we have set before ourselves, and with the realization of the responsibilities incumbent upon us at a specially critical stage in the history of mankind. 21. I endorse the hope expressed by one of the outstanding leaders of Brazilian thought, who is a member of our delegation, that the storms of the soul may take hold of this Assembly.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“But how much further on our way should we be if a glimpse were vouchsafed to us now of an age in which we could regard a genuinely universal system of collective security is something completely incompatible with a stage of political development in which the principles we are formulating today will be seen to be the inadequate and obsolete conceptions of men still obsessed by the fear of aggression and war. 20. We live in an age of profound political and social change; our task is not to oppose or to retard it.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“The preliminary work carried out by fourteen delegations, meeting throughout seven months at the United Nations Headquarters, provides us with a basis for discussion on the strengthening of the principles of collective security. As Brazil has already stated in that Committee, the establishment of a system of collective security is not the final goal of the United Nations. On the contrary, we regard it as a contingency arising out of the continuing precariousness of peaceful international relations, and as an admission that new acts of aggression are still possible. 19. The results thus far achieved are a step on the road to peace; but they do net signify that we have achieved the final objectives we have set before ourselves. We are striving to render collective security as universal as possible.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“Realization of the fact that peace is indivisible and that aggression against any State is not only a violation of world peace but an act directed against the community of free nations, has led to the establishment of certain standards of international conduct and the crystallization of certain principles which will complete the collective security system of the Charter in so far as they reflect the political and social systems of the contemporary world. It is for this reason that the Brazilian delegation is particularly interested in the careful analysis which we shall make of the report by the Collective Measures Committee [A/1891].”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“The fidelity with which the United Nations has reflected and interpreted the situation in which man thus finds himself today is above all eloquent proof that it is a vital instrument of politico-social progress and development. 18. The experience of joint action in Korea, on bases which would have been thought highly improbable and even impossible a few years ago, has demonstrated the degree to which the peoples of the world are imbued today with the ideals of the Charter.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“We have reaffirmed the fundamental rights of man enunciated in the draft convention which we shall discuss and which is one of the most ambitious attempts at legal and social creative action ever undertaken by an international organization. The United Nations is an institution created by man for man, and this fundamental feature expresses at once its whole weakness and its whole strength. Its vicissitudes, its setbacks and its hesitations are the vicissitudes, setbacks and hesitations of modem man, at a loss before a multitude of problems, war-weary and yet ever filled with the hope of peace notwithstanding the darker aspects of contemporary existence.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“As an example of those achievements, it is with great satisfaction that the Brazilian delegation, at the opening of the General Assembly’s sixth session, can point to the felicitous intervention of the United Nations in Greece and Korea. 17. Those who cast doubt upon the Organization’s activity up to the present time tend to an over-simplification of the issues and an unduly superficial analysis of the principles on which the United Nations is based. It is truly encouraging to review all that has been planned and achieved during these six years of work. We have established standards and techniques for the economic and social advancement of man as a pre-eminently political being.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“In advocating, under the authority of the Charter, peaceful solutions for the problems which threaten the world, the Brazilian delegation has no intention of restricting the freedom, detracting from the rights, or ignoring the aspirations of certain peoples to the advantage of others, whether large or small. It seeks only to establish an equitable balance of interests by giving a measure of satisfaction to either party and by guaranteeing to all the minimum conditions of life which will permit them to enjoy the rights they have thus acquired. 16. Looking back on the work undertaken by the United Nations since its creation I feel we can say that it has already many positive achievements to its credit.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“It is imperative that the resolutions and recommendations, both of the General Assembly and of the Security Council, should be respected by all States Members and that the decisions of the International Court of Justice should be upheld by all governments. Brazil feels herself particularly well qualified to support such projects in that the spirit of conciliation and peace so often attested by her historical development and by her conduct within the community of nations, is part and parcel of her legal tradition and of the character of her people. For the true democratic spirit is founded upon a just reconciliation of group and individual interests. 15.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“At the present juncture it is of pressing importance that peoples aspiring to total freedom should endeavour to act with the prudence and calmness demanded by the need for safeguarding the security structure that has been so slowly and painfully built up and that affords the best guarantee of the realization of their desires. 13r It is therefore vital to seek compensatory agreements through, friendly negotiation. To bring a dispute before the United Nations without having first exhausted all other means of peaceful solution is to run counter to the spirit of the Charter and to do it considerable harm. At a moment when the problems which weigh upon the world are submitted to the United Nations no reaffirmation can be too strong of the vital need for mutual confidence and for faith in our Organization and in its aims and objects. 14.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“The problems arising out of the nationalistic claims of certain groups are delicate and difficult to solve. While Brazil, in accordance with its political traditions, feels deep sympathy with the legitimate national aspirations of the peoples, it has none the less always been in the vanguard of those who advocate peaceful and conciliatory solutions for all the conflicts of international life. President Vargas, in his message to the Brazilian Congress this year, stated that all colonialism must be regarded as an undesirable survival in international life today.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“For the Brazilian delegation it is a sad thought that the human intellect, which has applied itself so successfully to the unravelling of the most arduous mysteries of science, is often baffled and frustrated in achieving practical results, through the lack of understanding of certain governments actuated by ideological fanaticism or a mistaken attitude of firmness. The growing interdependence, indeed the virtual coincidence, of the internal and external policies of States has had the truly paradoxical result of threatening the cause of world peace. An age which claims to be enlightened is faced with the grim reality of multitudes enslaved in a sombre moral and spiritual thralldom, a fertile soil for the propagation of doctrines both anti-democratic and contrary to the interests of peace. 12.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“We shall gain but little profit from the continual proliferation of specialized agencies and ad hoc committees, unless our labours are directed by a spirit of loyal, of unreserved co-operation on the part of all peoples of the world. As Mr. Trygve Lie, Secretary-General of the United Nations, has so truly stated, neither walls nor curtains will prevent the peoples from belonging to the United Nations, nor the United Nations from belonging to the peoples. 11. It is now almost a truism to say that the colossal difficulties with which certain communities are at grips are political and not technical in character.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“It is regrettable that we still cannot hear within these walls the voice of certain nations, particularly of certain great Latin peoples, whose assistance could be valuable indeed, not only for the United Nations but also for the large numbers of mankind dwelling within their frontiers. 9. Brazil recently convened the first Congress of the Latin Union. This is a movement for the progressive reinforcement of the peaceful and constructive work of the United Nations by inter-linking twenty-six European and American nations of Latin origin. The movement, the first Congress of which was held at Rio de Janeiro, reached conclusions that represent a reaffirmation of the principles on which western civilization is based. 10. In view of its competence and of its composition, universality is the vital condition for the success of the United Nations.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“Regional organizations have a steadily increasing value as agents for the propagation of the United Nations and the development and application of its principles. The benefits that accrue therefrom are undeniable once it. is conceded that neither by their existence nor by their activities shall they ever detract from the universality upon which the hope of final victory for the United Nations rests. 8. If it is successfully to cope with the present crisis in international relations, our Organization must strive with a vigour renewed each day to expand its sphere of action and to increase its territorial domain by admitting all those nations which desire loyally to collaborate in its noble task.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“In this connexion, may I recall that the Fourth Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, held in Washington at the beginning of this year, showed its complete agreement with the spirit of that resolution, entitled “ Uniting for Peace ”, by recommending to all members of the Organization of American States that they should adapt their resources and their defence systems to the present-day requirements of international security without, however, prejudicing the legitimate needs of their own defence. 7. We have herein a concrete example of effective participation by a regional body in the endeavours of the United Nations to round off its task of international peace. There is no need for me to dwell on the importance of the activity of such bodies within the system instituted by the Charter.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“It is the Assembly that by reason of its structure is responsible for the effective working of the Organization and the realization of its aims. And the many obstacles which the Council has encountered in the attempt to achieve its high objectives fully justify the adoption by the Assembly at its last session of resolution 377 (V) which seeks to ensure that the great Powers shall work together in a spirit of mutual understanding and thus to make good any deficiency that might result from failure on the Council’s part. 6.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“No matter what the subject of debate, whether it be the vital, problem of the maintenance of world peace and security, or the details of economic and technical co-operation between Member States, the Assembly once again emerges as the quintessential body of the United Nations. Containing within itself the most varied trends of thought, analysing and discussing the whole gamut of the problems of international society, it assumes the character of a universal forum in which all the Members of the Organization are represented with equal rights. 5. The existence of the Security Council, the body specifically charged with the handling of issues relating to the ultimate purposes of the United Nations, does not in any way detract from the supreme authority of the Assembly.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“The tradition of the philosophy of law, and of the basic principles which issue from that great original fount was proclaimed and adopted by the peoples and was embodied by them in the Charter of the United Nations at San Francisco. It is there that we shall find a constant source of inspiration for our labours in the sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly, labours bearing on matters of the highest import to international peace and security. 4. The diversity of the topics which the General Assembly must study during its sixth session brings out in clear relief the importance of the work of this session.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“From this platform, which I have the honour to be the first to mount today, I salute Paris in all its splendour. Fluctuat nec mergitur. Our faith and our confidence in peace, freedom and right shall likewise never founder. 2. Like the poet of old, in admiration and gratitude I cry: “ Oh holy light, golden eye of day !” And in the glow of the hallowed radiance that greeted the birth of Lutetia two thousand years ago, let me render to France, welcoming us with all her matchless, stately charm, a tribute of solemn and heart-felt homage. In the name of all those peoples whose language echoes, even from afar, the tongue of Latium, I renew the oath of eternal fealty to Christianity, to the rule of law, and to the culture of the Mediterranean Sea. 3.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)