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Nko’o Etoungou

THE RECORD WRITES THIS SPEAKER AS NKO’O ETOUNGOU

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1965-09-24
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1968-09-24
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  1. “My country also solemnly condemns every obstacle to the full development of man's potentialities, every attack on his liberties, every distortion of his rights. 16. This is one of the important remedies we prescribe for fostering and maintaining the peace of this world in which free-born man, man of every epoch, should be able to live in all dignity. 17. Unfortunately, there are many other threats to peace which cause us concern, among them the arms race. At a time when hunger and poverty are prevalent in many regions of the world, there are countries in other regions which are wasting resources of a scale unprecedented in the world's history by manufacturing and accumulating weapons so destructive that peace is seriously threatened. 18. The Kellog-Briand Pact of l928, which outlawed war, is no more than a memory of the past.”

    1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)

  2. “In the name of Cameroon, of Africa and, indeed, of mankind, I declare to the Assembly and to all the Governments represented here that the only road to peace lies in the genuine application of sanctions, under the terms and in the spirit of Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, to South Africa, which persists in its odious policy of apartheid. 15. As I have said, apartheid is really no more than one manifestation of the many barriers that man contrives to raise to impede man's development. Yes, apartheid is a manifestation of racism to which my country is fortunately not subject. Racism, too, is merely one aspect of all the forms of moral and human under-development from which our world is still suffering. My country denounces It in all its aspects.”

    1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)

  3. “I feel fond to deplore the extreme passivity of certain great Powers and their dilatory strategy of continually inviting us to begin, resume or reopen consideration of the applicability of sanctions to South Africa. Meanwhile, the Verwoerd régime is institutionalizing its criminal ideology. 14. No, the time has come for the international community to shoulder its responsibilities. In any case, as we all know, the 1964 London Conference on Economic Sanctions against South Africa reached the conclusion that economic and commercial sanctions are economically necessary, politically desirable, and lawful. Sanctions represent the last chance for the international community to solve the thorny problem of apartheid peacefully.”

    1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)

  4. “Should our action therefore amount merely to healing the wounds of war? Action by the Organization and by each of its Members is needed more than ever today. It is our bounden duty, the fulfilment of which would obviate the need for the peoples of South Africa to kill one another, for the African countries to intervene and for men who honour justice and respect for the human person to come to the aid of those who would be fighting to rid the world of a shameful scourge. Is it not a conflict of serious and unforeseeable proportions that is in prospect? It is, and the Members of the Organization must avert it, must avert this war which undoubtedly threatens us.”

    1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)

  5. “Thus it was that a few days ago [1342nd meeting] we listened to the spokesman for the Johannesburg impostors speak of this rostrum in defence of what is called apartheid and is in reality the humiliation, exploitation and even murder of man by man, all because of a difference in skin pigmentation. You listened to him, gentlemen, and it is strange that his words have not led' you to uncover the threat to peace. 12. We, for our part, still consider the pernicious doctrine defended by Verwoerd and his accomplices to be a regrettable creation of the man who, small, vicious, but still human, commits himself to violence in the hope of thus ensuring his own safety. Yes, his words remind us of the terrible experience which the world underwent barely a quarter of a century ago and which, as you know, was war. 13.”

    1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)

  6. “Unfortunately, this development of the individual, an absolutely essential condition for a lasting peace, is still being hindered by evils which it has become more imperative than ever before to eliminate. Yes, by fostering in himself everything that is "infinitely small" at the expense of the "infinitely great", man is imprisoning himself in racism and intolerance. Worse still, despite the many eloquent lessons provided by history and the science he has not yet accepted the principles which constitute the pillars of the Organization: the equality of men and their sacred right to the pursuit of individual or collective happiness. What a strange contradiction! What a curious disparity between the hackneyed phrases of pious speeches and the unjustifiable inaction of some of us! 11.”

    1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)

  7. “Finally, mankind will also discover that its ills are inseparable from the existence of utterly anachronistic economic and commercial systems. 9. Mankind will then be able to prescribe remedies whose suitability and effectiveness I shall endeavour to explain later; administered with faith and courage, these remedies will save it from the collective suicide which threatens it but which, I am convinced, it truly desires to avoid. 10. In embarking on the diagnosis of our sick world, I shall begin fey dealing with human rights, those immutable and fundamental rights on which the full development of the human person's enormous potentialities depends.”

    1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)

  8. “Then it will discover that the root causes of its ills are, as I intend to show, failure to respect fundamental human rights, the fearful race towards weapons of mass destruction, the complex and dangerous crisis facing the United Nations, the continued opposition of certain backward and retrograde Powers to the decolonization of vast territories which they have occupied and are trying to keep under their domination in flagrant violation of the sacred principle of the right of peoples to self-determination and, lastly, the refusal of some people to acknowledge the virtues of genuine peaceful coexistence,, which is applicable not only to political ideologies but to all communities, all religions and all races.”

    1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)

  9. “I have to admit that ours is a sick world. It is a sick world because there is no peace, sick because peace is disturbed, because peace is threatened. 8. As with a sick person who is to be cured, there must be a frank and sincere diagnosis of this suffering world. Indeed, mankind must diagnose its own illness, must criticize itself, must carry out its own examination of conscience.”

    1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)

  10. “Quaison-Sackey, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ghana, who had the rare distinction of guiding the difficult nineteenth session of the General Assembly and of enabling the Organization to survive the lamentable paralysis which had been forced on it and which still threatens it in its striving for the noble aims which are so dear to all of us. 5. I must not fail to take this opportunity to congratulate the Secretary-General, U Thant, whose devotion to the United Nations arouses great admiration and esteem in my country, which has full confidence in him. 6. Finally, it gives me pleasure and satisfaction to welcome the three new members of the Afro-Asian family which have recently joined us: the States of the Gambia, the Maldive Islands and Singapore. On behalf of the Government of Cameroon I offer their peoples every good wish. 7.”

    1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)

  11. “3. Before doing so, may I, Mr. President, associate myself with the many representatives who have congratulated you on your election to the high office which you so worthily occupy and who, through you, have paid a well-deserved tribute to your dear country, Italy, with which Cameroon maintains relations of co-operation based on mutual respect, esteem and friendship. May our Organization, under the wise and clear-sighted guidance of a statesman of your culture and stature, be strengthened in its difficult task of fostering and maintaining world peace. 4. May I also, on behalf of my country and on my own behalf, offer sincere congratulations to that great son of Africa, our brother Mr.”

    1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)

  12. “1. "Peace, universal peace is undeniably the supreme good" said President Ahidjo at this rostrum just two years ago [1244th meeting, para. 30]. The subject of peace has been developed by the many distinguished speakers who have preceded me, among whom I should like to mention particularly the significant presence of the highest authority of Catholic Christianity, His Holiness Pope Paul VI. Peace is the boon for which mankind, individually and collectively, has been searching since its beginnings; it is the raison d’être and the aim of the United Nations. 2. I should like to put before you, frankly and sincerely, the point of view of the Federal Republic of Cameroon on this subject, in the hope that my modest contribution, added to so many others, may help to build a better world and eliminate the scourge of war and the tyranny of poverty.”

    1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)