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1993-09-24
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  1. “It is toiling under an intolerable debt burden in a situation exacerbated by an overall trend towards disinvestment, a decline in official development assistance and a steady deterioration in the terms of trade as a result of the continuing fall in commodity prices. In these circumstances, is it acceptable that net financial flows should continue from the impoverished African countries to the rich countries? As we have already pointed out, this situation cannot be considered in economic terms alone. It is an ethical problem involving the conscience of our Northern partners and of international financial institutions.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  2. “In this context, the proposal to establish a post of high commissioner for human rights has its merits. None the less, it gives rise to some questions, the importance of which requires that it be considered attentively and in depth. Forty-eighth session - 8 October l993 9 The universality of human rights, which everyone must henceforth respect, requires the democratization of international economic relations. It would be unrealistic to circumscribe the exercise of democracy within national boundaries, when there are also flagrant injustices in international economic relations that constitute grave violations of human dignity. A victim of such injustices, Africa, more than any other developing region, has the characteristics of a continent adrift.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  3. “The recent organization in Yaoundé by the United Nations Centre for Human Rights of a training seminar for members of that Committee highlights the role of international cooperation in the promotion of human rights, particularly in developing countries. This cooperation suggests a new approach, necessitating a reversal of the tendency to turn human rights into political tools. This tendency often leads to a selective awareness of human rights violations and discrimination in the application of sanctions. Cooperation also suggests a new type of partnership, allowing the highly publicized activism on human rights to be replaced by calm and constructive dialogue between the various parties in charge of promoting and protecting human rights - States, national institutions, non-governmental organizations and multilateral institutions.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  4. “This development encourages the Government of Cameroon, with the impetus given by His Excellency President Paul Biya, to continue updating the legal and institutional frameworks to promote the effective enjoyment of human rights by our citizens. Our resolute march towards democracy can be gauged by the incomparable freedom of expression burgeoning throughout our national media, the flourishing of political parties, the vitality of popular participation in public life and the establishment, in the wake of the State’s gradual disengagement, of new and vast areas for the development of private initiative. The National Committee on Human Rights and Freedoms, whose activities enhance its credibility, is helping enormously to make public opinion aware of the importance of human rights and to alert our authorities to any possible violation.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  5. “At the recent World Conference on Human Rights, held in Vienna, our common vision of the values underlying mankind’s shared aspiration to the effective enjoyment of human rights made the longstanding dispute about a possible hierarchy as between civil and political rights and economic, social and cultural rights outdated. Now enshrined as indivisible and interdependent, all these rights have one objective alone: the promotion and protection of human dignity, regardless of considerations of race, colour, sex or religion. Recognition of that objective has contributed to the rebirth of the idea of the universality of human rights and has given those rights the moral and legal force of a categorical imperative with unassailable legitimacy.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  6. “In this respect, we praise the dialogue being pursued by the parties concerned to find a negotiated solution to the differences between North Korea, on the one hand and the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Government of the United States of America on the other. Lastly, the progressive establishment of the structures of the Organization’s executive secretariat for the control of chemical weapons strengthens our conviction that general and complete disarmament is not just a dream. It is a fervent aspiration of mankind that could be achieved if greater political will were focused on that goal.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  7. “Our States are thereby determined to create an area of peace, security and solidarity. We are thus entitled to expect the continued support of the international community for this initiative, sponsored by the United Nations. In a more general context, the progress achieved in the field of disarmament and arms limitation should continue. We call on the major Powers to redouble their efforts to accelerate the disarmament process, especially in the field of nuclear weapons. The conclusion of a treaty banning nuclear tests would meet the expectations of the international community, just as the indefinite extension of the Non- Proliferation Treaty would help reassure the non-nuclear- weapon States.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  8. “The mechanism created for that purpose at the twenty-ninth Summit of the Organization of African Unity deserves the support of the international community, as it is involved in the implementation of the agenda for peace adopted by the Security Council. Furthermore, the adoption in Libreville in September 1993 of a non-aggression pact between the 11 States members of the Economic Community of Central African States is part of this trend. Concluded in the framework of the Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa, created last year by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, this agreement is an essential link in the chain of confidence-building measures aimed at the progressive reduction of the armed forces and military budgets of the States of the subregion.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  9. “We are convinced that his lofty stature, eminent qualities and long experience will help his country to set out again on the path to progress and the reconciliation of its children. 8 General Assembly - Forty-eighth session Meeting the challenge of peace, involves not only the silencing of weapons, but also ensuring the reconstruction of countries ravaged by war. We therefore appeal that, as measures are taken to settle certain regional conflicts, the necessary resources be mobilized to meet, as well as humanitarian needs, the reconstruction needs of African countries that have been torn by armed conflicts. This would bolster the willingness of the African Heads of State to assume greater responsibility in the prevention, management and settlement of conflicts in their region.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  10. “In other parts of the world where hotbeds of tension persist the spirit of confrontation must yield to the search for negotiated solutions. In this context, Cameroon welcomes the decisive contribution of the United Nations to the restoration of peace in Cambodia. In paying tribute to the memory of all those who have paid for peace in Cambodia with their lives, I include Captain Ndi Ncho Abrahams of the Cameroonian contingent of military observers of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), who fell on the field of honour in Phnom Penh on 7 September 1993. I also wish to extend here our warm congratulations to His Majesty King Norodom Sihanouk on his restoration to the throne of Cambodia.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  11. “We therefore urge the parties concerned to seize this most recent opportunity to achieve peace afforded them by strict implementation of the Abidjan Agreements and the relevant resolutions of the Security Council. The imperatives of peace are also pressing upon our Liberian, Somali and Mozambican brothers and sisters, who have legitimate aspirations to the stability needed to reconstruct their countries. As regards Haiti, it is also important, if legality is to triumph, that everything possible be done for the implementation of the Governors Island Agreement. In Western Sahara, we have not lost hope that, following the negotiations now under way, the obstacles to a referendum on the future status of the territory will be removed.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  12. “At the very heart of Europe, a frightful war continues in the Balkans, a war the more frightful because the ideology underlying it is an affront to the conscience of mankind. The indignation it has aroused throughout the world demands that the weapons be silenced to enable the virtues of dialogue to prevail over the logic of exclusion and conquest. That war is also sorely testing the international community’s ability to defend the principles and values of civilization in our era. It is equally untenable that in Angola innocent people, caught up in an increasingly senseless war, continue to be massacred. It must be obvious to everyone that a solution to the Angolan problem cannot be imposed by force of arms. It resides in concertation, dialogue and negotiation.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  13. “We salute that outstanding son of Africa, and we include in this commendation President De Klerk, whose open-minded attitude has earned our admiration. The democratic transition in South Africa is at once fragile and promising for the whole of the African continent. It demands the support of the international community, which must work to put an end to violence and the destabilizing actions of the forces in the country that are opposed to change. Unfortunately, this remarkable improvement in the situations in the Middle East and South Africa cannot mask the threats to international peace and security caused by the persistence of armed conflicts in various parts of the world arising out of ethnic claims, the resurgence of nationalistic feelings, religious intolerance, the desire for power, poverty and underdevelopment.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  14. “Certainly, the peace in the Middle East that had seemed elusive is now within reach. Cameroon had always hoped for this, and we are therefore gratified at the progress made and wish to pay a tribute to the various protagonists who contributed to it. And with regard to this situation, has the time not come to update the Organization’s documents dealing with the situation in the Middle East? Cameroon intends to contribute to the consideration of this question the circumstances call for. The tone and provisions of resolutions concerning South Africa also need to be brought into line with the changes taking place in that country. Cameroon supported the appeal made from this rostrum by President Nelson Mandela for the lifting of the economic sanctions against South Africa.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  15. “Forty-eighth session - 8 October l993 7 That historic event, a sign of the times, was followed by the adoption by the Parliament of South Africa, which is still composed exclusively of whites and coloureds, of the agreement to establish a Transitional Executive Council, conferring upon the black majority a right to participate in the management of that country’s affairs with an eye to the April 1994 elections, which should usher in a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa. Those are undeniably two major events of exceptional significance, events that demonstrate the extent of the upheaval in the world we are now witnessing. Allow me, therefore, to salute the courage and great vision demonstrated by the Israeli Government and the leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  16. “The especially significant and unexpected changes that have marked the end of this century confirm our feeling that we must never despair of the human being and that, whatever the circumstances may be, we must keep faith in mankind’s future. Indeed, the forty-eighth session of the General Assembly is being held at a time when the image of that historic handshake between Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin and President Yasser Arafat is still bright in our minds, a handshake that sealed the mutual recognition between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization and consecrated the agreement on autonomy for Gaza and Jericho. Never before have conditions been as conducive to the building of a lasting peace in the Middle East.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  17. “Boutros Boutros-Ghali, has devoted unusual energy to the management of the Organization, management that has been made difficult by the increase in the number of United Nations missions, the complexity of the challenges to be met, and the acute financial crisis that is hindering the successful carrying out of his activities. Cameroon wishes to commend him for his wisdom and to assure him of its support. The Organization’s universality has been enhanced by the admission of six new Member States. It is a pleasure for me to welcome them among us and to assure them of Cameroon’s readiness to maintain and develop relations of cooperation and friendship with them.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)

  18. “In extending to you, Sir, the warmest congratulations of the delegation of Cameroon on your election to the presidency of the forty-eighth session of the General Assembly, I am not merely obeying protocol. I do so as well out of my wish to pay a tribute to your outstanding qualities and to welcome the significant contribution your country, Guyana, has made to the building of a more just and more united world. Your predecessor, our colleague Mr. Ganev of Bulgaria, carried out his mandate very well. We are grateful to him and express all our appreciation to him. For two years now our Secretary-General, Mr.”

    1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)