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1970-09-24

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1971-09-24

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1. “The hypocrisy of certain great Powers which day by day move further and further away from the hope expressed in the Charter to see established a peace which will offer all nations the means of living in security within their frontiers, a peace which will provide all men in all countries with an assurance that they will live a normal life free from fear and need. This hypocrisy has cruelly disappointed the young nations of the third world, which had foolishly placed their hopes in the United Nations. 134. What have the great Powers done in a positive sense to eradicate tyranny, subjection, oppression and intolerance? Let us have the intellectual courage which consists of finding out the truth or admitting it to ourselves when it displeases us, or just simply telling the truth to take note of our defects and deficiencies.”

   1970-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 25 (1970)

2. “The celebration of the anniversary of the United Nations provides an excellent opportunity, but unfortunately it is in danger of remaining a mere polite formality unless the purposes and principles of the Charter, above all, are respected, since they govern the direction in which the activities of the Organization should lead. These goals and principles, we must emphasize, are designed to guide the conduct of the Organization and Member States in order to lead to the happy accomplishment of the common objectives those States have set themselves. 133. In all objectivity I must state that there lies an abyss between these principles and their proper implementation. What do we see every day?”

   1970-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 25 (1970)

3. “Others, on the other hand, who find themselves in the front row of this great theater of violence, injustice and exploitation, which can be said to be the true background of our society of today, make it a point of honor to set against that exalted lyricism the harsh law of reality to reveal the truth, certainly without arrogance but without weakness also, in order to draw from it valuable lessons and definite claims based on the spirit and letter of the Charter which so many people here quote from so readily and abundantly. 132.”

   1970-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 25 (1970)

4. “Some, intoxicated by technical progress and swept away by hypocrisy which we are used to now set about this event by indulging in pseudo philosophical discourse which, far from identifying objectively the difficulties which persist unfortunately in the international community, contribute, often by their aphorisms and the facile predetermined vocabulary of deceit, only to making more opaque the mask which conceals the crucial problems of our time and which prevents any durable solution from being achieved. 131.”

   1970-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 25 (1970)

5. “Angie BrooksRandolph who left the imprint of her strong and captivating personality on the twenty- fourth session, giving the nations of the world definitive proof of the serious intention of African women to free themselves from the bonds of the past and to take part fully in the construction of a new world. 128. But I can feel satisfied that I have really done my duty only when I pay tribute to the courage, lucidity and devotion to the cause of peace of our Secretary General, U Thant. 129. We have open to us several ways of celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the United Nations. In any case, it is a chance and a place for all of us to carry out an overall health checkup of the Organization. 130.”

   1970-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 25 (1970)

6. “The People's Republic of the Congo through my voice is happy to join in the chorus of congratulations which are fully deserved and which have been addressed to President Hambro with warm and moving eloquence by the speakers who have spoken before me in the general debate. President Hambro's great moral, and intellectual qualities of exceptional caliber and his talents as diplomat, jurist and statesman have been sufficiently described by the various speakers to remind us that the fate of the twenty-fifth session has been entrusted to a man most qualified to lead our debate towards that ideal to which we all aspire, a real convergence of peoples towards a better understanding and greater cooperation between all races and peoples. 127. President Hambro is taking over the presidency from Mrs.”

   1970-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 25 (1970)

7. “I particularly noticed his absolutely resolute will to turn Egypt into a powerful country, to build in it an independent economy, to turn the Egyptian fella into a man aware of his own personality, his own value, a respected man. I have admired his unequaled courage, which, like the courage that animated the pharaohs, enabled him to carry out the great Aswan Dam project and to overcome thousands of difficulties. 124. President Nasser succeeded and he has died at precisely the moment when his people valued him so much, when Africa is partly liberated and when it is engaged in the decisive fight to expel from its land the colonialists and the imperialists. 125. A citizen of the third world, nonaligned, supporter of liberation movements, panAfrican, pan Arab such was President Nasser to whose memory we now pay solemn tribute. 126.”

   1970-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 25 (1970)

8. “122. I cannot begin my intervention without referring to the solemn resounding tribute which our Permanent Representative paid yesterday from this rostrum [1852nd meeting] to the memory of President Nasser whose death made a profound impact on the Congolese people and particularly on President Marien N'Gouabi who was very close to the late President and had for him a feeling of very great personal affection and militant comradeship and also on myself, since I was, for three years, Ambassador of a friendly country to the United Arab Republic and benefited from the kindness of a man who has now joined the select group of the heroes of history. 123. For three years, day after day, I had a chance to observe the many-faceted work of President Nasser.”

   1970-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 25 (1970)