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“The murder of the head of the Army, General Rene Schneider, because of his true and consistent position was the tragic signal that triggered the Fascist war against the Government, the Popular Unity Party, the leftist movements, the working classes and the progressive levels of the population — something similar to the burning of the Reichstag by the Nazis, which unleashed a manhunt for Communists, socialists, anti-Fascists, Jews and foreigners that today is being exceeded in its unbelievable ferocity by the junta. 223. This criminal madness of the desperate, as President Allende called them, was clear proof of the appearance of fascism in Chile, although they still hypocritically mouthed democratic slogans.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“Between the elections in which he triumphed and that act were many plots hatched by the United States Embassy as well as by transnational corporations like the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation [777], which tried to stop him from acceding to the presidency through an explosion of blind, exasperated and savage violence. The Fascist escalation of reaction and imperialism culminated with his heroic fall on II September. The unleashing of the most unbridled terror began the day after the elections.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“That was also the clumsy intention behind the ridiculous, lying, petulant, cowardly and low so-called "I accuse" of the ex-Minister of the Government of Popular Unity and rented Vice-Admiral, who dishonours this Assembly, bearing the stigma of traitor on his brow and his bloody garments after the murder of thousands of Chileans. The hired hand of Enrique Bernstein, ex-Director of International Relations of the Government of President Allende and confessed Christian Democrat, is not unscathed in that filthy, low, primitive and repulsive libel. 221. But it is the facts that will seat the presumptuous accuser in the dock of the accused. 222. Salvador Allende assumed the presidency of the Republic of Chile by will of the people expressed in elections on 4 November 1970.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“I shall now, if you will allow me, cast a somewhat brutal light of truth on what occurred in Chile and what is still taking place. It is a duty that I am fulfilling as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, as a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary, as a comrade of Salvador Allende and as a simple human being. I stress this last, because I wish radically to differentiate myself from those who here represent the bestiary and the forest. 220. The henchmen of colonial fascism and of imperialist propaganda have tried to cast a curtain of pretences, fallacies, calumnies, scurrility, adulterations and vile accusations to disguise their machinations, their felonies, their knavery, their infamy, their crimes and their responsibility.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“The imperialists' strategy of isolating Argentina, Chile and Peru or subjecting them to their policy through the conversion of Brazil into a dependent imperialist State and their strengthening of reaction in Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia, satellites of colonial fascism, seemed to face almost insuperable obstacles. The course of the development of this growing polarization of the progressive and anti-imperialist forces, which irremediably undermined their dire domination of the years of the past, led North American imperialism to concentrate its efforts on the overthrow of the Government of Popular Unity, inciting the armed forces to treason and giving all their help to the dominating classes, to the reactionary parties and the Fascist groups of Chile. 219.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“It saw the aggressive pact of Rio de Janeiro buffeted by criticism and the incompatibility of socialism with the Latin American continent was suddenly challenged. Puerto Rico more and more took up the cudgels for its shattered national rights assumed by North American imperialism in 1898 and its inalienable sovereignty and right to independence and self-determination were recognized by the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in the United Nations. 218.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“In Panama the people and the Government joined to call for full recognition of their sovereignty, jurisdiction and rights over the Canal and the Zone, strengthened by the almost unanimous support of the Security Council. 217. With their revolutionary acts and their votes the people of Argentina overthrew the dictatorship. The countries of the Andean Pact adopted restrictive measures on foreign investment. The challenge to the illegal diplomatic blockade of Cuba grew. The injections of camphor oil and plastic surgery were empty resources to revive the moribund and rotten OAS. At the fifteenth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America [ECLA], held in Quito in March, the United States stood alone.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“If at the beginning of 1960 efforts were made to propagate the fraud of representative democracy and to gild the lie of the Alliance for Progress confronting a socialist Cuba, at the beginning of the present decade there were already some Governments that had taken positions to defend their independence, their sovereignty and their natural resources. 216. In Peru the Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces strengthened its nationalist positions. The Government of Popular Unity of Chile was trying to carry out, despite the Fascist escalation of reaction and imperialism, its singular purpose of strengthening the bases of the socialist road to development within constitutional machinery created by the dominating classes to safeguard their own interests.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“It was precisely in the Caribbean that at the beginning of the now-dying century it started its neo-colonial politics, and it was in that region too that the process of defeat of that policy started. The Cuban revolution, the radiant apex of the radiant undertakings that today celebrate their one hundred and fifth anniversary, started the victorious march of the second independence called for by Jose Marti. 215. In the year that followed we were clearly able to see the antagonisms and the differences between Yankee imperialism and the Latin American peoples, which were growing and becoming more obvious.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“Their frantic despair at the mess in which they find themselves is obvious, but so too is their contumacy in trying to maintain and extend their tottering domination. That duality to which they were pushed by their growing decomposition, the rebellion of the peoples and the resistance of many Governments prove their perfidious plans and have exposed their two-facedness. An obvious example of that is the Pharisaic torrent of rhetoric poured out on us by the grey eminence of the waning system. 214. At these moments Latin America is confronting a crucial situation. The rising progressive and anti-imperialist movement in our continent has been a fundamental element in the decline of the capacity of the Government of the United States to continue a global imperialist policy.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“Formerly, they contended that they would play the role of the international gendarme of reaction, and now they turn to the expedient of encouraging Fascist coups d'etat and economically support and supply with more effective and numerous weapons puppet Governments and praetorian armies and assign to them the foul task of enslaving and brutally repressing their own peoples in order to permit more profitable and safer exploitation. Through their new alliances, you may find their present strategy and tactics in the following areas: South Korea, Saigon, Thailand and Lon Nol in Asia; Portugal, South Africa and Rhodesia in Africa; Israel and Iran in the Middle East; Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay and now the Fascist junta of Chile in Latin America. 213.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“Cuba actively supported the complaint by the Republic of Guinea in the Security Council on this question. 211. In the struggle against colonialism and neo-colonialism in Africa, we are now entering a decisive stage. If the United Nations is unable to take effective measures to ensure the implementation of resolution 1514 (XV) and to break the resistance of the reactionary forces of imperialism and racism that oppose such implementation, it will assume responsibilities that will gravely weaken its authority and prestige. 212. The deteriorated and shattered alliances and self-styled Truman and Eisenhower doctrines have been shattered because they are useless.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“Despite the stubborn resistance and the obtuse approach of the colonialists and neo-colonialists, the national liberation movements in Africa continue to deliver destructive body blows at them. The emancipation of the people of Guinea-Bissau clears the road for the peoples of Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde. The peoples of Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa valiantly rebel against colonial fascism and its repugnant methods, among which apartheid has a zoological physiognomy. Simultaneously, the manoeuvres, threats and conspiracies of the imperialists have increased against the People's Republic of the Congo, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and the Republic of Guinea, to the point where aggression was committed against them by international mercenary bands organized and supplied by Portugal and NATO.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“"In recent days the concentration of Israeli armed forces on the armistice lines with Syria and the Arab Republic of Egypt and the mobilization of reserves clearly showed the intentions of the Israeli Government, which ultimately unleashed in the area the military situation which today constitutes a grave concern for the peoples of the region and is a serious threat to peace beyond the territories involved. "The Revolutionary Government of Cuba expresses its support for the just positions of the Arab Republic of Egypt and of Syria, its solidarity in the face of the Israeli attacks, and joins in the universal condemnation of the actions of the Government of Israel." 210.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“It is not by chance that the Sixth Fleet is in the area. 209. I shall now read out the Declaration of our Government: "The Revolutionary Government of Cuba repudiates the policy of aggression of the Government of Israel, which has once again led to a situation of war in the Middle East. "It is a known fact that the Government of Israel has rejected all forms of settlement of the situation in the Middle East created by its own illegitimate occupation of Arab territories and by its brutal denial of the rights of the Palestinian people. "Instead of bowing to the universal clamour for a return of the occupied territories, the restoration of the rights of the Palestinian people and the political discussion of the problems of the area, the Israeli Government has maintained an aggressive position against the Arab States.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“We agree with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea that conditions should be made favourable for the peaceful reunification, and independence of the Korean people. Cuba reiterates its demand to the Assembly that there be an immediate withdrawal of all North American troops from South Korea, that the so-called United Nations Commission for the Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea be immediately dissolved and that an end be put to any interference in the domestic affairs of the Korean peninsula. 208. The prolonged and explosive crisis in the Middle East has now broken out. We must not forget that imperialist greed to take over the rich oil reserves in the Arab countries is one of the underlying factors of the aggressive, expansionist, annexationist and predatory policy of Israel.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“But that would not be sufficient for peace to be restored in the Indo-China peninsula. It is also imperative for North American intrigue in Laos and aggression in Cambodia to end — the latter being carried out through Thieu. The promise of peace in Laos and the immediate implementation of the Vientiane Agreement must depend on the establishment of a government of national coalition. The only true Government of Cambodia is the Royal Government of National Union, recognized by the majority of the countries represented here. The restoration of its usurped seat in the United Nations can brook no further delay. The puppets occupying that seat at the moment must be expelled. 207. The arbitrary division of Korea continues to be a great source of tension in the Far East.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“Only the closest alliance of the progressive forces of the world will give us the necessary strength to overcome the still powerful imperialists, colonialists, neo-colonialists and racists and struggle to achieve the aspirations for justice and peace of the peoples of the world." 205. With respect to the main problems raised at the Algiers Conference — almost all of which were submitted to our consideration this year as last year — the Cuban delegation expressed its views on the struggle for international peace and security and related questions, including the significance and the present stage of the Paris agreements on Viet-Nam. 206. Suffice it to add now that, with respect to Viet-Nam, Cuba calls for strict compliance with those agreements by the Government of the United States and the puppet regime of Saigon.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“It is these features which shape the results and the prospects which are open for all to see. 204. At that Conference, the Prime Minister of the Revolutionary Government of Cuba and the Chairman of the Cuban delegation, Commander Fidel Castro, expressed views that should be repeated here. He said: "Any attempt to confront the non-aligned countries with the socialist countries is completely counterrevolutionary and benefits only the interests of the imperialists. To alienate the friendship of the socialist countries is to weaken us and leave us at the mercy of the still powerful imperialist forces. It would be clumsy strategy and colossal political short-sightedness. The success and future of the non-aligned movement must lie in the course of not allowing ourselves to be infiltrated, confused or deceived by imperialist ideology.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“The most outstanding features of the Algiers Conference were its anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist and anti-neo- colonialist stand; its vigorous condemnation of Israel; its open support for the struggle of the peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America to reaffirm their sovereignty, to recover their natural resources and to make the necessary structural changes to foster and guarantee their liberation and development; its severe criticism of the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade; and its request that the monetary crisis, which has now become more acute as a result of the new devaluation of the dollar, should be discussed at the international level; its denunciation of the seditious role of the multinational corporations and its readiness to co-operate with the socialist side.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“In its review of the international situation, the Conference agreed that the process of detente in Europe was a plausible event but, at the same time, it found that the confrontation of peoples with colonialism, racial discrimination, apartheid, domination and foreign occupation, as well as neo-colonialism, imperialism and Zionism, continued to be unchallengeable realities of our day, and today we are proving it in the Middle East. I have already referred to this duality and I have stressed its causes. There can be no doubt or argument that peace and security are far from prevailing in the Indo-Chinese peninsula and elsewhere in the world. The under-developed nations of Africa, Asia and Latin America are still under the gunsight of the enemies of peace and security. 203.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“These deliberations concentrated on the great political, economic, social and cultural problems of the under-developed nations within the context of the international situation and of the joint process of the currents of national and social emancipation that in one way or another are upsetting the archaic structures that engender dependency, backwardness, poverty, servitude, deprivation, exploitation and racism. 202.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“Suffice it, as examples in Latin America, to mention the bases established in Panama and Puerto Rico and the Guatanamo naval base in Cuba. 201. Among the international events of the period that I have tried to analyse, an outstanding position is occupied by the fourth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held at Algiers from 5 to 9 September 1973. More than half the members of the international community participated, and they represent the majority of the population of the globe — and many of their heads of State and Government. As observers or as guests a number of other countries, movements and organizations participated. The clamour of the hungry, oppressed, subjected or outlawed people of Africa, Asia and Latin America shook our deliberations.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“The use of bacteriological weapons has even been prohibited and they have been abolished. 200. But this problem has given rise to many deliberations, proposals and agreements in the United Nations. However, the difficulties are great, and it is logical to doubt that the matter can be settled by one stroke of the pen. There is therefore no alternative other than to continue the constant struggle and guarantee the holding of a world disarmament conference. It is imperative to stress that among the main items of its agenda should be included that of the dismantling of the military bases scattered by imperialism over almost all continents, which in themselves constitute spearheads of a policy of expansion, subversion, domination and aggression.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“For the same reasons, we shall continue our struggles against colonialism, imperialism and neo-colonialism in all their forms and manifestations as antagonistic to international peace and security. Those activities complement one another. They flow from the different structures and ends of the socialist and capitalist societies and from the real division of the greater part of the world into oppressed and oppressor countries. The complex dynamics of international life and its shocking contrasts call for a new approach and consistent action. 199. One of the most acute problems confronting mankind today is the arms race, with its enormous risks and overwhelming economic burden on the peoples. It is known that in the course of the last few years some steps have been taken towards reducing methods of mass destruction.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“It is for that reason precisely that Cuba has advocated and continues to support all acts of this Organization tending to strengthen international peace and security. Peace and security wrested from the imperialists objectively become a reduction of their overweening power. 198. Cuba therefore fully supports the initiatives of the Soviet Union for the prohibition of nuclear weapons and of the use of force in international relations, as well as the convening of a world disarmament conference with the participation of all States. The Revolutionary Government of Cuba, because of its socialist nature and foreign policy of principle, is in agreement with measures that will alleviate international tensions.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“We have been blockaded, illegally and criminally, for the sole reason that we shook off the imperialist yoke and we chose the socialist road to development. We were even on the verge of being blasted by a North American nuclear attack. From experience also, Cuba knows what it means to have the cooperation and the assistance of the Soviet Union- and the socialist countries and the solidarity of peoples behind us. 197. Because of a community of destiny and in accordance with our international duty, Cuba has supported and will continue to support all the movements of national liberation in Africa, Asia and Latin America, just as we have supported and will support all the peoples and Governments that fight to defend or regain their full independence and their sovereign right to enjoy their natural resources.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“He continued saying that very soon the Cuban engineers and architects would start work on the reconstruction of the region and planning of a new capital for the province, which had been so ruthlessly devastated, and added: As far as we are concerned, co-operating with VietNam is a great honour. It is not you who should thank us; it is we who owe you thanks — you, the people of Viet-Nam." 196. The position of Cuba regarding the struggle for international peace and security is crystal-clear. From experience, my country knows the direct onslaughts and the whole arsenal of the ruses of imperialism, and we are always therefore on the alert. We have never yielded one iota of our sovereignty, our self-determination or our dignity. We have been isolated. We have been attacked.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“On the occasion of his recent visit to the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam, where he was received by that heroic people and its admirable leaders with overwhelming expressions of fraternal friendship, the Premier of the Revolutionary Government of Cuba, Commander Fidel Castro, at the invitation of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Viet-Nam, visited the zones that had been liberated by the Viet-Namese people. On that historic visit — the first made-by a head of Government to that part of that territory artificially divided from the glorious country of Ho Chi Minh — he spoke the following words in the town of Dong Hon: "It is impossible to carry out a visit to Viet-Nam without including a tour of the south and through this province of Quang Binh, which is the vanguard of the North and the rearguard of the South." 195.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“The contribution of the indomitable and dedicated people of Viet-Nam to the achievement of that objective has been decisive. Never has a people, confronted by an enemy a thousand times more powerful and cruel beyond conception, done so much for peace, for liberation and for the dignity of man. That people preferred to die rather than bow, and it won. The Paris agreements set forth the ignominious defeat of North American imperialism, but from that day to the present time the puppet regime of Saigon has violated those agreements with unparalleled cynicism. Kissinger initialled the agreements, but Thieu ignores them with the complacency and blessing of Kissinger. And from that day to this, also violating them, the North American Government has constantly sent arms and resources of all sorts to Thieu. 194.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“But it is no less obvious that the concrete conditions created by that process favour the struggle of the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America for their liberation, social progress and economic development and increase their influence on the evolution of the international situation. It is for these reasons that the countries still belonging to the under-developed world must, if they wish to take part in history and in the forging of the new scientific and technical revolution and the conquest of outer space, join their efforts with those of the socialist countries to widen, strengthen and assure the roads of peace and to choose the most suitable ways and means to overthrow colonial and neo- colonial domination. It is in that direction that the horizon of lasting peace is brightening. 193.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“This significant victory is the culmination of a tenacious struggle for peace that began with the establishment of the first State of workers and peasants. It is not the result of a policy of positions of strength but of the strength of positions. The stifling stench of Watergate has sapped even _ further the already diminished right of North American imperialism to dictate its policy in global terms. 191. It is obvious that the process of detente, timed and circumscribed by the facts and documents I have mentioned, is beset by shoals and dangers. 192. As long as imperialism survives, the frontiers of detente, peace, security, and co-operation will be precarious.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“The clearing of the atmosphere in Europe, which was the result of that interreaction of factors reflected in the presence in the United Nations of two German States, the agreements signed between those States and between the, Federal Republic of Germany and the Soviet Union, Poland and Czechoslovakia, and the opening of the second phase of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, will be enhanced by the documents signed during the conversations between the Soviet Union and the United States. The genuine vocation for peace of the Soviet Union obtained agreements and compromises that laid the objective basis for avoiding a nuclear conflict and saving us from the catastrophic risk of a new war of world-wide proportions.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“And this is a point we must bring out: the transformation of the climate of tension and hostilities that prevailed in Europe from the end of the Second World War was the result of the dedicated efforts and the policy of principle of the Soviet Union, the main force behind the struggle for peace. 189. But this is no miracle. The Soviet Union was able to plough the furrow of peace, security and co-operation among nations possessing different social regimes by means of the convergence of certain changes and new conditioning factors at the very heart of European society and in the world, which in turn led to the creation of conditions conducive to peaceful coexistence in that part of our planet. 190.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“An over-all glance at the international panorama allows us to see that, although the prospects for the struggle for peace seem clearer and more promising, as well as those for security, progress and social and economic development, there is still a long way to go. 187. Although the process that is now beginning is subject to the inherent fluctuations of the class struggle and ideological contradictions between the capitalist and socialist systems, and to the very aggressive and bellicose nature of imperialism, Cuba is proud of that constructive progress and the concrete manifestations of international detente. 188. For many centuries Europe was the cockpit of history, but the face that the old continent is now turning to us is very different from the one it showed a few years ago.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“This dramatic situation, imposed on us by Zionism wedded to imperialism and reaction,, fraught with risks for international peace and security, is attracting the attention of the whole world and, therefore, of this Assembly. 184. The indiscriminate bombing of Damascus, where the buildings of a number of embassies have been wiped out and a number of diplomatic officials have been killed, testifies to the hatred and savagery inherent in the Zionist policy. The non-aligned nations have made a statement this afternoon in which they reaffirmed their total and active solidarity with the Arab countries suffering aggression, and offering all their co-operation and support. 185. The Revolutionary Government of Cuba has made a statement on this matter which I shall refer to later. 186.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“Cuba fully and militantly identifies itself with the legitimate liberating struggle being carried on with unshakeable determination by the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Syrian Arab Republic for the reconquest of their land usurped by Israel and for the recognition of the national rights of the intrepid and suffering Palestinian people. The cause of the Arab peoples is our own cause. In the Sinai peninsula and in the Golan Heights today a battle is also being waged for the liberation of the subjected peoples, the exploited peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Egypt and Syria are in the vanguard of the so-called third world. If necessary, let us give them everything, even our own blood. 183.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“That historic event irreversibly speeds up the triumph of the anti-colonialist struggle being carried on by the peoples of Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde and further weakens the position of colonialism, imperialism and neo-colonialism in Africa. The people and the Government of revolutionary Cuba, who have already given full diplomatic recognition to the new State, rejoice at the victorious process of liberation of the people of Guinea-Bissau as though it were our own. The Cuban delegation pays a heartfelt tribute to Amilcar Cabral, the inspirer and guide of that memorable undertaking, vilely murdered by henchmen of imperialism a short while ago. 182.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“On the one hand it is proof of the growing universality of the United Nations and on the other hand it is a sign of the changes that are taking place in the world today. We in the Cuban delegation are very happy to offer our fraternal welcome to the representatives of the German Democratic Republic, a socialist country, a peace-loving nation, which has succeeded in overcoming all the harassments, aggressions and intrigues of imperialism until it achieved recognition of its international personality. 180. With the warmth and friendship of neighbours we welcome the achievement of independence by the Commonwealth of the Bahamas and its admission to the United Nations. 181. With our flags flying, Cuba greets the establishment of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“That man and that name, now gathered into an immortality which he shares with the greatest heroes and martyrs of our America, cannot be overlooked in this Assembly. For what they symbolize in human decency, in loyalty to principles, in nobility of purpose, in service to country and faith in mankind, that man and that name lay claim on us for a tribute of silence, a bowing of our spirits to the greatness of his, which at the supreme moment rose to immeasurable heights. 179. I would not wish to proceed without first expressing Cuba's great satisfaction at the admission to the United Nations of the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany. That event is of great significance.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“177. Mr. President, I am extremely happy to congratulate you on your election to preside over the twenty-eighth regular session of the General Assembly of the United Nations. This is, doubtless, just recognition of your long and fruitful activities in our Organization. It is superfluous to add that the Cuban delegation will offer you whatever co-operation you require in discharging your task. 178. Barely a year ago, in this same hall, we heard true, energetic and hopeful words from a man who has just given his life for the sake of the democratic will of his people, the cause of socialism and human decorum, a man whose proud, enlightening and moving voice still resounds, and doubly so after having been silenced in a titanic struggle. As everyone knows, I am speaking of Salvador Allende, the constitutional President of Chile.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“Cuba has stated its position on that crisis very clearly and reaffirms its complete support for the Arab people in their struggle to regain the territories occupied by the State of Israel and to safeguard their seriously-threatened self-determination, independence and sovereignty. 139. As Commander Fidel Castro, Prime Minister of the Revolutionary Government of Cuba, has said, all those who have set out to rob the peoples of their wealth, stop their development, profit from their work, cut down their independence, attack their sovereignty, overrun them and exploit them with blood and fire, and all who support imperialists in their new plans for intervention, aggression, subversion and blockade against Cuba, should in every corner of the whole world be known by their true name — bandits! Fatherland or death! We shall win!”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)
“The imperialists, in their turn, began to learn it in Korea, which they also divided artificially and attacked with pirate armies under the flag of the United Nations. This Organization still refuses to condemn their action, to order the withdrawal of the foreign troops which trample over Korean territory, or to dissolve the so-called United Nations Commission for the Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea. But it is In Viet-Nam that they have learnt their lesson once and for all. 138. The serious crisis in the Near East is another result of the policy of intervention, aggression, subversion and plundering of Yankee imperialism throughout the world.”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)
“They continue to struggle like no other people for human dignity and the peoples' freedom; they are the most advanced and war-seasoned trench of the world's anti-imperialist front; they have managed to awaken and move the torpid conscience of the people of the United States, and are teaching a lasting lesson to the oppressed and exploited peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America. The determination to perish, or conquer for the homeland and for humanity is all-powerful and so has achieved and will achieve more than all the strategic and tactical weapons of Yankee imperialism. 137. The Cuban people quickly took heed of that lesson and the revolutionary peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America are now learning it.”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)
“It Is not a duty of the United Nations to find a solution for the war of aggression in Viet-Nam. The duty to find that solution is laid only on the heroic Viet-Namese people, and they are already on the road to it: the overwhelming defeat of the invaders and their puppets and the free re-unification of the territory which the imperialists have artificially divided. 136. The people of the United States should realize that the Pentagon has irrevocably lost the war in Viet-Nam. The imperialists will never triumph in Viet-Nam. These people of exceptional mettle, whose men, women and children have faced forces a thousand times stronger, have defied torture, hunger, bombing, napalm and poison gas without giving an inch.”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)
“So far this year the people's army of the National Front for the Liberation of South Viet-Nam has destroyed 1,310 military vehicles, sunk twenty-seven warships, put five trains out of operation, blown up 162 bridges and attacked 43 military posts and 70 observation towers. 134. The Pentagon's strategists also believed that a few devastating air raids would force the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam to surrender unconditionally. The Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam is still standing on its smoking debris, and its anti-aircraft defences have brought down a total of 2,356 aircraft and sunk several Yankee warships. Last year the cost of this subhuman war was over 20,000 million dollars, and it is expected to reach 30,000 million dollars this year. 135.”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)
“The Pentagon's strategists, with their proverbial arrogance, thought that a few thousand military advisers and technicians would suffice to overthrow the people's army of the National Front for the Liberation of South Viet-Nam. At present their forces number 466,000 men, 1,000 fighter aircraft and the Seventh Fleet, composed of four aircraft carriers and 77 warships. Add to these forces the 690,000 soldiers of the Saigon puppet army and the 55,000 from other satellite countries, and the total is over a million. The invading armies' losses equal the destruction or disorganization of 120 combat battalions, and they have had more than 115,000 casualties.”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)
“But future generations will also remember that Viet-Nam did not suffer and struggle in vain. Future generations will remember that Viet-Nam had the honour of defeating Its Implacable enemy and digging the grave of the odious system of plunder and extermination which its enemy represented. 132. This has to be said now, even if it does surprise many people. Yankee imperialist escalation in Viet- Nam was intensified; so therefore was Viet-Namese counter-escalation. It is undeniable that the Yankee Imperialist giant has broken up on the determined resistance and the fighting morale of the Viet-Namese people. It is also undeniable that this determined resistance and fighting morale have reached the point where they are beginning to take the offensive. 133.”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)
“While speaking of Yankee imperialism and its policy of intervention and aggression, it is very appropriate to stress that there were people in this Assembly who hypocritically rent their garments and again made empty promises of peace in Viet-Nam while the bombs, the splinters, the napalm and the poison gases wrought havoc and the incursions into Laos and the provocation in Cambodia continued. They added insult to injury. Imperialism is still Imperialism, however hallowed its garb. 131. Fancy thinking that nazism exhausted the whole range of human bestiality] Viet-Nam proves up to the hilt that Yankee imperialism has far surpassed it. One day history books will narrate the crimes of imperialism as the most abominable evidence of the pre-history of human society.”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)
“Freed from Yankee imperialism, Cuba is not only overcoming its backwardness but is also heading strongly towards full development, and at the same time is pledged to create better forms of co-existence among mankind. The sole reason is that its people have chosen the only possible way to that goal: by building a socialist and communist society 90 miles away from their sworn enemy with one of its naval bases enclosed in their national territory. Cuba is a source of inspiration and an example to the peoples who are still prisoners of underdevelopment and colonialism in Asia, Africa and Latin America. 130.”
1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)