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“We must note, unfortunately, that United States imperialism continues, and constantly violates the Paris agreements, agreements that gave rise to so many hopes which have now vanished, one after another, plunging both Viet Nam and the world back into increasing insecurity. 34. The Organization must act, and act promptly, to ensure that the Paris agreement is applied scrupulously and in full, because that is the only way in which lasting peace can be established in that part of the world, which has suffered so much from atrocities and wars of aggression. 35. Not far from Viet Nam, in neighboring Cambodia, the Khmer people also are being subjected to an unjust war, which they are repulsing with courage and determination, daily winning important victories over the aggressor which are recognized by the entire world.”
1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)
“The current session is being held at a particularly important moment in our history, a moment when areas of light and shade are strangely intermingled, and nascent hopes die, and then reemerge, so that mankind can never have a full sense of reassurance. I cite as an example the case of Viet Nam. It had been hoped that the lesson which the valiant Vietnamese people taught the army of aggression of the United States of America would have stripped away the last shred of illusion from all those who had not yet understood that all the peoples of the world, whoever they may be, have the right to choose their own path, that which best reflects their own ethos, and that they believe most likely to ensure the achievement of their deepest hopes and their happiness.”
1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)
“President: here I must try your modesty, known to all of us, and say that for more than a decade the Algerian people and the people of the Congo have extended their hands to one another in the grip of brothers and fellow fighters that has grown firmer as the years went by. 32. The heroic struggle of the Algerian people to regain their sovereignty serves as a symbol and an example to all oppressed peoples. The firm support which your country affords to all just causes, particularly the struggle for liberation of the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America, has made Algiers the universal capital of freedom and human dignity. 33.”
1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)
“Your election is also above all a tribute to the heroic Algerian people who, under the wise and enlightened leadership of President Houari Boumediene, are striving for the liberation of the third world and the assertion of its character. The resounding success of the Fourth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-aligned Countries, held at Algiers 13 months ago, and the historic sixth special session of the United Nations General Assembly on raw materials and development, convened on the initiative of President Boumediene, are further proof of the ever-stronger attachment of your beautiful country to the cause of the third world. 31. But for the Congo your country has done much more, Mr.”
1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)
“Mr. President, at the outset I should like to associate myself with the speakers who have preceded me at this rostrum and tell you how pleased the delegation of the Congo is to see you guiding the work of the twenty-ninth session of the General Assembly. In so doing, I am certainly following a tradition, but I am above all carrying out a very pleasant duty in expressing the deep joy felt by the people of the Congo on hearing the news of your unanimous election. The trust placed in you thus marks a new milestone in the career of a talented statesman and an experienced and wise diplomat, whom Africa is privileged to count among its sons a militant, a fighter for freedom with unshakable faith and determination forged in the Algerian resistance. 30.”
1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)
“Kurt Waldheim, whose devotion to the cause of peace is beyond all praise, you will spare no effort to encourage the States Members of this Organization, which have wandered into paths to which they have been led by their selfish, sordid and outmoded interests, to reconcile themselves with history, a history which no reasonable nation has the right to oppose eternally.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“Those were the thoughts which Commandant Marien Ngouabi, President of the Central Committee of the Congolese Labour Party, President of the People's Republic of the Congo, asked me to submit to this august Assembly over which you, Sir, are presiding today. 119. We hope that the delegations here will benefit from your eminent qualities as a jurist and a humanist, your valuable and long experience in the service of the international community, so as to ensure that the work of this twenty-eighth session will be the great success that the whole world expects it to be. 120. We are convinced that, like your predecessor Minister Trepczynski — to whom we pay a cordial tribute here — and like our Secretary-General, Mr.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“That would have made it necessary for you to listen to yet one more speech that would serve no purpose, particularly because it is now clearly established that in order to become equipped the developing countries must, above all, rely on themselves. I will simply say that the policy of charity must give way to freely agreed co-operation, which should be to the mutual benefit of the contracting parties. We — the small countries, in particular — should in the problems of development, work for the strengthening of the United Nations, especially of its specialized agencies, whose efforts, despite their limited resources, have just so felicitously added themselves to our own action. 118.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“President Allende, who was constitutionally elected, scrupulously respected the institutions and democratic practices to which his people were so profoundly attached. His crime, his only crime, was to have tried to restore to the Chileans that which the multinational companies had taken from them. 116. Today, while abominable genocide is being organized in Chile, while duly accredited diplomats to that country have seen their immunity grossly violated, and while the democracy so dear to the Chilean people is becoming every day more and more a shadow of its former self, the world of the United Nations is leaning back and reclining in its '-intellectual comfort. Here, again, the last word belongs to history. 117. It is quite deliberate that in our statement we shall not go into any details about economic problems.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“As was proclaimed by the Algiers Conference, the sovereignty of States over their natural resources should become an inalienable principle for everyone. This problem leads us to consider the situation — which we would have preferred not to mention — which was created in Chile by the reactionary coup d'etat of 11 September 1973. We condemn most vigorously — and representatives no doubt have sensed this throughout our statement — any intervention in the internal affairs of other countries. And we would have said nothing about the events in Chile if — as was so well understood by the fourth non-aligned Conference in Algiers — what was under preparation in Santiago and which led to the cowardly assassination of President Salvador Allende was not considered by the third world as a vast plot against us all.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“Indeed, it is becoming ever more intolerable that important problems, which may affect the very life of our Organization and the future of mankind, should continue to be the subject, or a kind of preserve, of the club of the all-powerful. 113. The Organization's Charter should be revised and adapted to new conditions, because we believe most sincerely that the right of veto, for example, has become an anachronism and should disappear. 114. It is also urgent to have redefinition of relations among States to put an end to external intervention, which is ever-more open and arrogant, in the internal affairs of young nations. Every country has the right to be free, to conceive and to execute its own policy. 115.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“And as representatives know, in our day war is waged with ever-more murderous weapons, ever-more sophisticated weapons, which the under-equipped countries do not possess — fortunately, or unfortunately perhaps — and which they will probably never need if the great Powers were a little more sincere and had more good faith in their intentions. What we want is that people should be clearer when they speak of disarmament. In our view, the countries which have for so long been oppressed and exploited and are once again today exposed to all kinds of interference and aggression have the right to defend themselves. 112. If a franker dialogue could take place on the subject of detente and disarmament, perhaps we would then be able to take a big step towards the indispensable democratization of international relations.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“For us, true political realism is that which has as its purpose fighting imperialism and its acolytes and which consists of unequivocally supporting the restoration of sovereign rights and self-government for the benefit of all countries, and in particular for the countries which are still groaning under the yoke of colonialism and racism; political realism that would be worthy of proper attention is that which would include in its programme in golden letters the right of peoples to dispose of their own resources, to decide on their own destiny, the inalienable right of peoples to have the regime of their choice and to determine in all freedom what their alliances will be. 111. The concept of detente makes it very natural for us to think of peace, and of war too.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“It is therefore more necessary than ever now for all nations to give their support to the policy of detente whose outlines and content should be clearly defined here so as to avoid reducing the United Nations to the humiliating role of a distant and scorned witness. We will gain nothing from closing our eyes to the brutal realities which constitute, unfortunately — and will for a long time to come — the backdrop of our world.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“In any case, imposed from the summit of the pyramid without taking the least account of other elements which nevertheless constitute the key to the explanation of the international situation, detente runs the serious risk of having a brief and tragic career because in our world today it is no longer possible to pretend to ignore in the international arena the long-exploited and scorned third world. 110. I am aware that my purpose may seem to be at variance with a certain uniformity which has been maintained by our culpable passivity, but we all know the evil consequences that may develop from a vacuum ascribable to a lack of perspicacity and the indecision of peaceful peoples.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“This concept of detente, which has been widely canvassed and which, if we are to believe the acclamations accompanying its birth, has no enemy, is liable to remain a useless instrument of analysis if it is reduced to the role of being the privilege of a minority of the all-powerful and becomes deflected from its supreme objective, which is to strengthen the common wish of people to organize the live forces of our planet to serve understanding, friendship, justice, peace and the progress of humanity without any discrimination.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“Detente appears to be the watchword which is to inspire all of our delegations throughout our work. I am among those who find it repugnant to use this rostrum for sterile polemics. But, as I have stressed earlier, good sense should be based on the inspiration of actual facts which occur every day in order to shed the proper light on this notion of detente to which the peace-loving peoples of the world so legitimately aspire.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“My country, like many other third-world countries, can only welcome the advent of this new era, this golden age which we are promised; because we need peace to build in our own countries a society of prosperity and dignity and to deal more effectively with the thorny problems of the well-being of our working masses. But in truth, can there really be peace without freedom? My delegation would like to invite everyone, without futile emotion or passion, without demagogy, but in all objectivity, to reflect on this concept of detente which, if it is historically justified, must nevertheless be given a more real content, if we want to increase its credibility among the disinherited of the earth even a little. The twenty-eighth session has been placed by many speakers within a general framework of detente.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Mozambique and all those waging an armed struggle, of the total and unconditional support of the Congolese people. We support them because the causes for which they are fighting are just and because there is no peace without justice, even if there is detente. 109. We are in fact going through a very exalting stage where the acceleration of history makes it possible for us to note, every day, appreciable changes in the world panorama. A decade of ideological confrontations dominated by the snows of the cold war is now being succeeded, we are told with tranquil assurance, by a so-called phase of political realism and international detente.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“Such a decision, while it would be strictly in keeping with the principles of the Charter and would fall squarely within the framework of the objectives of the Organization, would be a great incentive to the fighters of Angola and Mozambique, and a serious warning to the racists of Rhodesia and South Africa. 107. With regard to the situation in Rhodesia and Namibia, with regard to the policy of apartheid in South Africa, nothing remains to be said, and it is possibly only the way of saying it which has changed. It is for this reason that, here too, my Government considers that the United Nations should take concrete action and Request the Western Powers to choose between their selfish interests and those of the whole international community. 108. May I be permitted, from this rostrum, to assure once again the peoples of Palestine.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“It has just been offered to us by Guinea-Bissau. The country of Amilcar Cabral has just won a victory over the oppressor, a striking victory which we must not only welcome, but which we must do everything we can to strengthen. If the United Nations really wishes decolonization in accordance with its own Charter, Guinea-Bissau should be immediately admitted to membership and should take its place here without debate, because I do not think there is any Member country which has received any mandate from the people of Guinea-Bissau to represent them here.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“The Assembly knows the daily tragedy afflicting the people of the territories under colonial domination.. There are numerous documents relating to them which are available to each of our delegations. The massacres in Mozambique have been described in the smallest detail by Mr. Marcelino dos Santos and the Reverend Hastings. The forced systematic exploitation of the riches of Angola is well known to us all. I have quite deliberately brought these two aspects together to show with what cruelty and what cynicism colonialism is striving to destroy, in the countries which it dominates, the two essential elements in the life of a nation: man and nature. 106. Hence, my Government feels that the best thought- out and the most sincere speeches will do nothing to change the situation. It is acts which are necessary. The opportunity is unique.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“But we are also aware that patience has its limits, and that is why it is urgent for the international community to call upon this small country, and particularly those who would support, it, to rally to the side of history before seriously jeopardizing the chances of mankind of living in perfect harmony without distinction of race or religion. 104. The methods pursued by the last of the colonizers in Africa are well known to us all. The panoply of them has just been added to by individual attempts on individual persons, as for example, the cowardly assassinations of illustrious sons of Africa, such as Edwardo Mondlane and Amilcar Cabral. These assassinations have only served to strengthen the scorn and the hatred of the whole of Africa and have also strengthened the determination of freedom fighters in their struggle. 105.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“What is happening also is that in spite of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, which will soon be 13 years old, colonies in Africa still survive — the list of them has often been enumerated here and this makes it unnecessary for us to repeat it. The country which is persisting in perpetuating this phenomenon is sufficiently well known to you to make it unnecessary for us to name it here. 103. We of the People's Republic of the Congo are not racists and we hope that we will never have to respond to abominable acts of racism with other acts of racism, equally detestable.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“It is because we are faced with a fact of history that you will understand that in this particular area President Marien Ngouabi will of course be attaching much more importance to what is happening than to what has happened. 99. What is happening is that the former colonial Powers, in their anxiety to preserve their unjustly acquired advantages, are perpetuating in the most subtle ways their domination over the new independent States. 100. What also is happening is that the great Powers, influenced by their selfish narrow interests, want to make satellites of the small countries. 101. What we are faced with in each case is neo-colonialism, which is as inhumane, reprehensible and worthy of contempt as colonialism. 102.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“We are side by side with the valiant people of Palestine who are waging their struggle, and we fully support the fraternal countries of Egypt and Syria that are fighting so bravely for the restoration of their territorial integrity, because, for us, one of the most intolerable and inadmissible principles of our time will remain the acquisition of territory by force, which is after all nothing but a modern form of colonization. And the question of colonization brings us quite naturally to Africa. 98. Colonization is, of course, an historical phenomenon, which is in no way justified and which nothing could ever justify. Consequently, it is a phenomenon which is reprehensible at any time and at all times. But colonization is also a fact of history.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“Many countries of the third world have already realized the danger represented by the expansionist and arrogant policy of Israel and are ending their relations with the Zionist State, thus heeding the appeal of our Arab brothers who consider, quite rightly, that this is the least they could do. We would like to hope that the neighbouring countries in the combat zone will understand that the time has come for them, too, to meet all their responsibilities and to provide Egypt and Syria, which have been the victims of aggression, with the concrete assistance which they need so much at the present time. 97. The People's Republic of the Congo, for its part faithful to the fundamental principles of its policy, has broken off all relations with Israel, without any pressure whatsoever from any source and without any kind of calculation.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“We do not want to address ourselves to a country which has systematically refused to comply with the unanimous will of the international community. We would rather say to those who support the Zionist and expansionist State of Israel that it is certainly high time for them to revise their calculations, because tomorrow it will no doubt be Israel itself that will reproach them for having imprisoned it in illusions which today are more than outmoded. We would also like to ask the fraternal Arab countries if it is not time to forget the things which may divide them and to combine their efforts against an enemy which is humiliating the whole Arab nation and which defies us all. Ct; 96.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“We certainly do not want the fragments of this mosaic to prevent us from identifying the problem in its totality. Without any doubt the status of observer, after a laborious and arduous quest, has just been granted to North Korea; but the duty of the Organization is to help this country, which has suffered so cruelly from foreign interventions in its political life, to bring about its reunification by peaceful means, free from any external influence. 95. Today something that is even more tragic — Israel also is stubbornly rejecting the verdict of history. This stubbornness led in 1967 to the situation of which we are well aware, which itself has just given rise to serious developments in the Middle East less than a week ago.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“They also know that the fourth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, which has just been held in Algiers, took an historic step when it demanded that the rights of the Royal Government of National Union of Cambodia, headed by Samdech Norodom Sihanouk, should be restored in the United Nations and in the other international organizations and that that Government should be recognized as the legitimate government representing the people of Cambodia. The People's Republic of the Congo entirely approves this action, and the United Nations should see to it that it is actually brought about, because this alone will make it possible to restore peace in that part of Asia. 94. Still in Asia, the situation in Korea is slow in developing.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“But there again, under the enlightened leadership of Samdech Norodom Sihanouk, the valiant Khmer people are every day giving proof that traitors to the motherland will only have meted out to them, when the time comes, the punishment they deserve. The representatives here in this Assembly know very well that the United National Front of Kampuchea controls nine-tenths of Cambodian territory. 93.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“Today I should like to welcome once again the brilliant victory of the heroic people of Viet-Nam which has been reflected in the signing of the cease-fire agreement at the beginning of this year in Paris.6 It is now for the United Nations to require that this Agreement, which has been constantly breached by the Saigon administration, always encouraged by United States imperialism, should be strictly respected. The Vietnamese people is entitled, like all the other peoples of the world, to a free existence, a normal life and institutions of its own choosing. 92. Unfortunately, hardly did the flames of war in VietNam die down than United States imperialism lit another fire in Cambodia.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“This historic event belies the false theses which had prevailed until last year. I warmly welcome the representatives of those two countries and those of the Bahamas who have just taken their places in this Assembly. 90. Today I note with great pleasure that the Laotian people, who have so long been in the nightmare of war and division, are finally making progress towards a normal existence even though the forces of evil are still striving vainly, to overturn the verdict of history. 91.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“It has overcome the many obstacles which imperialism and internal reaction have placed in its path, and it is doing very well. Its leader, Commandant Marien Ngouabi, is exercising determined and clear-sighted leadership, equalled only by the fierce will of the Congolese people to live free, in peace with everyone. 88. Today I am happy to note that the gross injustice which had long been inflicted upon the People's Republic of China has been redressed and that the great Chinese people is now in a position to place its great wisdom and rich experience at the service of the world and peace, in frank and sincere co-operation, which is a gratification to. us all. 89. Today I welcome with true satisfaction the simultaneous admission of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic to our Organization.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“86. Ten years ago, on 2 October 1963, I addressed the United Nations General Assembly for the first time from this same rostrum.5 At that time I had the twofold historic mission of declaring to the world that the Congolese revolution was the expression of the unanimous will of the whole people determined to live free, alone the master of its destiny, and to set forth the views of my Government on the major international problems which divided us and most of which, unfortunately, continue to divide the Members of our Organization. 87: Today, returning here, I am happy and proud to say that the Congolese revolution has survived ail the gloomy prophecies. It has indeed just witnessed a rousing celebration of its tenth anniversary.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“That great victory of oppressed over oppressors is the beacon lighting up the path of all those who are fighting for their freedom; and the Congo, yesterday enslaved and today free, will bear the torch aloft in the struggle, in the hope that tomorrow will see the rebirth of a United Nations which respects the principles of its own Charter and is resolutely determined to establish a lasting peace throughout the world.”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)
“This courageous attitude on the part of the Secretary-General is justly appreciated by President Massamba-Debat’s people who, be it noted, are not losing faith in the future of the Organization, let alone in the future of the world. 35. The Congo believes implicitly in the triumph of the forces of progress over the forces of evil. How in fact could we do otherwise, particularly at this time when we are about to celebrate with our friends the Soviet people, within the circle of international proletarianism, the fiftieth anniversary of the great October Revolution?”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)
“My Government hopes that the resolution will not remain a dead letter. Let us hope that the initiative will be taken up and developed at the second session of the United Nations Trade and Development Conference at New Delhi, so that the efforts undertaken may be translated into concrete negotiations. 34. I cannot conclude my statement without once again expressing the thanks of President Alphonse Massamba-Debat to U Thant, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who has agreed to the request from all quarters to accept a further term of office, although the unwillingness of certain great Powers to give him the sincere co-operation indispensable to his high office might rather have decided him to withdraw.”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)
“With the United Nations Development Decade coming to a close, the economic potential of the highly industrialized countries continues to rise, but the development of the countries of the Third World is not proceeding at the rate expected. 33. My delegation is therefore gratified to see that the Board of Governors of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund at Rio de Janeiro adopted a resolution calling on all international institutions to promote the economic development of the developing countries, to improve the standard of living of the people, and to stabilize commodity prices at a remunerative level. This means devising appropriate machinery, with balanced commitments on the part of both the producing and the consuming countries, which will have to set aside the necessary resources for that purpose.”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)
“If I were inclined to say a word about the concern of all countries, and of the Organization itself, on the subject of economics, I would merely say that my country, like many others, shares the disquiet of the Secretary-General when he states in the Introduction to his Annual Report: "Again this year, I am constrained to express my great concern regarding the loss of momentum in international aid and its adverse effects on the results of the current Development Decade." [A/6701/Add.1, para. 61.] 32. For the problem of co-operation between the industrialized countries and the developing countries is as acute as ever.”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)
“We are all aware that the Government of Washington has always used and still uses the flag of the United Nations as a cover for its occupation of South Korea and its aggression against the Democratic Republic of Korea. The existence of the Unification Commission — which has unified nothing at all but on the contrary has legalized the occupation of South Korea by the American imperialists — is in flagrant contradiction to the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations Charter. We have to admit the helplessness of the Organization in coping with this problem. 31.”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)
“We consider that the Korean question, which amounts to restoring unity to the temporarily divided territory, is a domestic matter for the Korean people, to be settled by them alone, and that no interference is permissible, not even by the United Nations. 30. That is, in fact, why we have called for the dissolution of the Commission set up by the United Nations. In its twenty years of existence it has achieved nothing, and it perpetuates the unjust division of Korea into two distinct States. In the view of my delegation, the main obstacle to unification is the existence of the famous United Nations Commission for the Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea.”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)
“The truth is that the entry of the People's Republic of China into the United Nations would upset the status quo and would challenge a situation brought about dishonestly; and it is in the interests of the representatives of the Third World to try to thwart these designs if they wish to take up their proper role in the management of world affairs. 28. My delegation therefore demands the expulsion, pure and simple, from this Organization and all its organs, of the emissaries of Formosa, who represent no one but themselves, and the restitution to the People's Republic of China of the seat which rightfully belongs to it. 29. With regard to the so-called Korean question, my Government has stated time and time again that it is no concern of the United Nations, which has no title to discuss it.”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)
“These same detractors even maintain that the proletarian revolution now taking place in that great country is an unstable factor which does not make the restoration of the legitimate rights of the People's Republic of China sound policy. Our answer to them is that this is a domestic problem, just like the race disturbances which every year cause bloodshed in the United States of America. Has the place of the United States imperialists been challenged here on that account? Who has even dared to raise a finger to denounce the genocide practised on the black population of the country of Lincoln and Kennedy? 27.”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)
“In this connexion the delegation of Congo (Brazzaville) reiterates what it said last year, namely, that no current problem, be it disarmament, peace in Viet-Nam or peace pure and simple, can be settled without the effective participation of Peking. 26. Those who are opposed to the restoration of the lawful rights of the People’s Republic of China lead their Vassal Governments to believe that the People's Republic is so aggressive that to admit it into the United Nations would be a threat to world peace. My delegation's answer to that specious argument is that the People's Republic of China maintains no military bases outside its own frontiers.”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)
“Thus as far as we are concerned, until frank and sincere negotiations are held at Geneva, countries such as France and the People’s Republic of China, which by their own efforts are making bold efforts to accede to full nuclear power, are not only justified in doing so but will no doubt one day contribute effectively to the search for ways and means of achieving genuine general disarmament. 25. At all events, talks on disarmament will have no meaning unless and until all nuclear Powers are associated in them. Yet as we know, at each succeeding session all possible means are brought to bear by the United States imperialists to keep the People’s Republic of China out of the United Nations.”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)
“We invite those Powers which maintain mercenary activities to follow this admirable example. 23. The situation in Africa in no way distracts our attention from other current problems, in particular the question of disarmament, which is the corner-stone of our international system. We concede that a few timid steps have been taken towards disarmament, the most recent being the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America, signed at Mexico City on 14 February 1967, But we should also frankly recognize that initiatives designed to lead to general and complete disarmament are so halfhearted that they seem calculated to preserve a monopoly and perpetuate the blackmail of nuclear weapons that has gone on too long already. 24.”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)
“The mission of these hired killers, these soldiers of fortune, whose only allegiance is to the dollar, the pound sterling, the Belgian franc or other strong currency, is to invade and ravage certain regions of Africa. These contemptible adventurers, who massacre harmless citizens or if need be carry them off as hostages, go so far as to try to impose on lawful Governments conditions that are, to say the least, unacceptable. This intolerable situation is anathema to my Government, for at any time it could undermine the dearly won sovereignty of the new States. 22. In this connexion a particular tribute must be paid to the French Government, which last year made arrangements to dismantle the recruiting centres set up on its territory, especially in the Ardèche.”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)
“The racist Government of Pretoria persists in its refusal to co-operate with the United Nations Council for South West Africa set up by the General Assembly [resolution 2248 (S-V)]. Here, as in Rhodesia, sanctions should be applied against the inveterate backsliders of Pretoria. But what purpose could all these sanctions' serve when we know that the great Powers, while condemning the odious policy of apartheid in the United Nations, in actual fact connive at the evil practices of those who support white supremacy to safeguard their economic interests? 21. Africa, of which I have sketched a brief and not very cheering outline, has witnessed a new phenomenon just recently: the presence of mercenaries in our continent.”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)
“In any case, now as always, we categorically reject the unilateral declaration of independence by the illegal regime of Ian Smith. It is most regrettable that the administering Power, the United Kingdom, has for two years refused to put down the rebellion and restore lawful rule by installing a representative government. 19. Clearly the so-called selective sanctions have been an utter failure; their only effect has been to strengthen the hand of Ian Smith and his racist clique. Moreover, the resumption of talks between the British Government and the rebels shows plainly the existence of a standing plan designed to preserve British interests in the region by keeping the white minority in power. 20. On the question of South West Africa, the Congolese Government notes with mortification that no progress has been recorded to date.”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)