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1969-09-24
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  1. “There is no doubt that the true guarantee of peace and security would be general and complete disarmament. This goal is still before us and we must continue to strive for its attainment. The road to it will be long, and we cannot yet see its end. In any case, however, the prospect of creative activity and of useful human labour in a world without arms provides an inspiration which makes our continued efforts worth while. 42. We are as yet at the very beginning of this road and the first milestones are the so far modest results achieved by negotiation: the treaty partially banning nuclear tests,! the demilitarization of Antarctica, the demilitarization of other space [General Assembly resolution 2222 (XXI)] and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons [General Assembly resolution 2373 (XXII)].”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

  2. “Among the other sources of international tension is the continuing abnormal situation in Korea. It is deplorable that, sixteen years after signature of the armistice agreement, the armed forces of the United States are still violating security and increasing tension on the Korean peninsula under cover of the United Nations flag. It is essential that the idea of peace should at last prevail in that part of the world. The proposals which the socialist States have submitted to this session of the General Assembly, and of which Czechoslovakia is a co-sponsor, [A/7641/Add. 1-5 and A/7642/Add.1-2] are directed towards adoption of equitable requirements for the peaceful unification of the country. We are convinced that their adoption would promote a peaceful settlement of the Korean situation. 41.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

  3. “The rights of the Arab population of these territories are being violated and its plight is appalling. Is it therefore surprising that the situation in this region is explosive and may at any moment break out into a military conflagration the consequences of which are hard to imagine. 39. The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic sees a way out of this crisis in the adoption and particularly in the implementation of all the provisions of the Security Council resolution of 22 November 1967 [242 (1967)]. It now depends on Israel whether it will comply with the demands of the peace-loving nations and, above all, whether it will withdraw its troops from the occupied Arab territories, or whether it will assume full responsibility for further dangerous developments in that region. 40.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

  4. “After so many years of suffering and bloodshed, nothing could better promote the settlement of the Viet-Nam problem than an approach to these negotiations by the United States which would allow the conclusion of an honourable and just peace for the entire people of Viet-Nam. It is indeed high time that the United States put an end to this war, withdrew its troops from Viet-Nam and enabled the people of Viet-Nam to live in peace and tranquillity without foreign interference. 37. From the very outset Czechoslovakia has taken the side of the heroic people of Viet-Nam and has given it all possible support in its difficult struggle. 38. Similarly, little success has so far been achieved in the negotiations for terminating Israeli aggression in the Middle East. Vast Arab territories are still occupied by Israeli troops.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

  5. “Meanwhile the sound and progressive forces in South Viet-Nam have formed the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Viet-Nam, which is gaining increasing international recognition and increasing support among the people of Viet-Nam. This Government is fully entitled to express its views on the future destiny of South Viet-Nam. Its programme and its specific proposals for the establishment of peace provide a realistic solution for the problems of that country’s future. 36. With feelings of hope and relief we welcomed last year the news of the opening of negotiations in Paris at which the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam and the Provisional Government of South Viet-Nam submitted their proposals. These negotiations have so far not yielded the desired results.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

  6. “Accordingly, resolute efforts to eliminate existing military conflicts and the constant establishment of conditions for preventing a new war are among the most urgent tasks of our time, and consequently among the most urgent tasks of this session of the General Assembly. 34. The world has on many occasions heard denunciations from this rostrum of the aggressive actions of the United States in Viet-Nam. Yet the war against the people of Viet-Nam still continues. United States soldiers thousands of kilometres from their homes are striving to crush the heroic resistance of patriots fighting for their independence and to preserve the venal Saigon régime. 35.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

  7. “In the forthcoming anniversary year we shall have an opportunity of assessing our Organization’s contribution to solving the urgent problems which have confronted mankind over the past twenty-five years. We can already note, however, that in the period following the end of the Second World War the peace-loving peoples have succeeded in preventing the outbreak of a new world-wide conflict. The community of socialist States has played a distinguished and decisive part in this effort. This by no means unimportant achievement gives us grounds for hope when we look into the future. 33. Unfortunately there are still not only smouldering but also flaming hotbeds of war in the world which threaten to expand into a world-wide conflagration of unprecedented dimensions.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

  8. “Although the United Nations has in past years achieved some partially favourable results in its efforts to alleviate international tension, we cannot rest content with this. The urgent problems of the current international situation impose upon the United Nations the obligation to use all the means at its disposal to transform the ideas contained in its Charter into reality. It would therefore be desirable to try once again at this session to lay some foundations which would enable our Organization next year to enter upon a new twenty-five-year period which would be an era of lasting peace and co-operation, based not on the principle of the “balance of power and fear” but on awareness of the beneficial and useful effects of the only alternative open to mankind, that of peaceful coexistence. 32.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

  9. “We in Czechoslovakia are convinced that such a world situation will ultimately prevail and are prepared to do everything in our power to ensure that the noble objectives which the United Nations set itself at its establishment become a reality. But the reality has so far been entirely different. Instead of a world without wars and crises, we live in a divided world, constantly balancing on the brink of the most terrible of all wars, in a world where dangerous hotbeds of tension are constantly smouldering, the arms race is continuing, and military arsenals are stockpiling increasing reserves of weapons with a destructive power many times greater than that which could transform our earth into a dead planet. 31.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

  10. “For a number of years, the international situation in which the General Assembly session was being held has been described in the general debate as complicated and tense. This year is no exception. 29. And yet, particularly on the eve of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the inception of the United Nations, we should like to express the hope that the day will come when we can rejoice together that war is not raging in any part of the world, that crises have been averted by the common efforts of all the peace-loving countries in the world, that the era of disarmament has begun, and that the heritage of colonialism has been entirely eradicated. 30.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

  11. “26. Madam President, allow me on my own behalf and on behalf of the Czechoslovakian delegation to congratulate you on your election to the high office of President of the current session of the General Assembly. In congratulating you, we rejoice not only that the President of our session is a representative of the African continent, but also that your election symbolizes one of the purposes of the United Nations—the equal rights of men and women. We hope that under your guidance our session will accomplish the tasks which lie before it. 27. Allow me also to express our wholehearted condolences on the death of Mr. Arenales, the President of the previous session of the General Assembly. 28.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)