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“Cuba has not and will not enter into any commitment which might compel it to limit its defensive capabilities, even potentially. The Cuban people are convinced that their decision to defend their country to the last drop of blood of the last fighting man is their most effective contribution to the cause of peace. 124. The General Assembly's resolution on the granting of independence to colonial peoples and dependent territories must be complied with speedily and fully. However, it would be insufficient if we did not at the same time face the dangers that hover over peoples who are starting out on the rocky, tortuous path to national independence and the building of a new life. 125. The experience of the Latin American nations is instructive.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“With regard to the use, control, limitation, and prohibition of nuclear and thermonuclear weapons, the Cuban delegation has made its position known at previous sessions of the General Assembly, especially in connexion with the plan for the denuclearization of Latin America. My Government has stated on several occasions that it would only begin to consider this initiative if it encompassed the denuclearization of the only nuclear Power in the hemisphere, and the abolition of its military bases in Panama and Puerto Rico and the naval base at the enclave of Guantanamo in Cuban soil. This delegation regards it as an inescapable duty to reaffirm that the people and the Revolutionary Government of Cuba reserve the right to possess such arms as they deem appropriate for their own defence, irrespective of their nature.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“If we hope to win a world in which the roar of cannon fire will be no more than an echo from mankind's prehistory, we should bear in mind that weapons have not led to wars; wars produce weapons. 122. In our day, wars have their origin in imperialism’s policy of aggression, intervention, oppression, exploitation and cupidity. Imperialism can only be paralysed and conquered by uniting all antiimperialist, patriotic and progressive forces, by effectively supporting national liberation movements — the battering ram which is breaching the foundations of imperialism and hence of the warmongers — and by resolutely assisting the victims of aggression. One of the most striking features of the international situation is the progressive development of conventional wars in an atmosphere of tacit nuclear truce. 123.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“It is understandable that States should be anxious about conventional or other weapons which are in the hands of the imperialists, but the Cuban delegation believes that a clear distinction should be drawn between those who take up arms to commit aggression and those who take up arms to repel it. At present, there are many parts of the world where men and women carry guns to win their independence or to defend it. In the immediate future, many more will follow in their footsteps. The people and the Revolutionary Government of Cuba regard the armed struggle being waged by these people as sacred and unreservedly support it. The shots fired against imperialism and its satellites are the most important contribution to the struggle for a genuine peace. These weapons are also sacred to the Revolutionary Government and the people of Cuba.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“in present circumstances, the logical subject for debate is the armed aggression of imperialism against the peoples, the dismantling of bases for aggression such as those being built or enlarged in Viet- Nam right now, or the base maintained at Guantanamo against the will of the Cuban Government and people as a garrison and bastion of counter-revolutionaries, spies and saboteurs; the abrogation of military pacts concluded in order to threaten the free countries or to intervene in those which plan to liberate themselves, such as the so-called inter-American NATO and the proposed Permanent Inter-American Force, the establishment of which will be discussed, under the auspices of the Pentagon, at the Seventh Conference of Heads of American Armed Forces, to be held at Buenos Aires in November. 121.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“The dominant note in the international situation, so full of problems, tensions and conflicts, is the increasingly fierce struggle between imperialism and the peoples. Let us eschew words and get down to facts. The Yankee imperialist aggression in Viet-Nam, the provocations and threats of that imperialism to the peoples of South-East Asia, its plots against the independent States of Africa, its policy of interference, subversion, oppression and exploitation in Latin America and its stubborn attempts to destroy the Cuban revolution prove that it neither desires nor is seeking peace, and that, on the contrary, its natural environment is war. 120.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“It wants peace in order to dedicate itself fully to the building of a new society based on the abolition of the exploitation of man by man and to improve the material, technical and educational standard of living of its workers, peasants, intellectuals and students. But the Revolutionary Government of Cuba has repeatedly made it plain that it will only accept peace with dignity, that is to say, genuine peace, a peace which guarantees the self-determination, independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of all States, large and small, powerful and weak, based on respect for the rights of peoples and nations to freely develop as they see fit without pressure, impediments, or threats of any kind. 119. Obviously, as matters stand in the world, discussions on disarmament become somewhat Utopian.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“For reasons of principle, the Cuban delegation has never been remiss in supporting general and complete disarmament under international inspection, the elimination of all forms of thermonuclear testing, the absolute prohibition of the manufacture and stockpiling of nuclear and thermonuclear weapons, and their complete destruction. However, nothing or very little has actually been done in this direction, except for minor agreements more apparent than real. 118. The Cuban delegation wishes to state its position on these matters frankly and clearly. Like all the peoples of the world, the Cuban people loves peace.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“It should be emphasized that it does so not merely as a Member of the Organization, but on behalf of and as the representative of a heroic and self-effacing people which has been fighting for complete emancipation for a century. States Members will have to choose between supporting the independence of this people, or tightening its bonds. 116. The items relating to disarmament and the danger of thermo-nuclear war are high among the questions on the agenda of the General Assembly as at previous sessions and as at meetings of the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee at Geneva. It is public knowledge that only minor progress has been made on this problem or diversionary manoeuvres which may have a negative impact on the cause of peace and the struggle of peoples for self-determination, independence and sovereignty. 117.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“Last year, in a letter dated 1 October 1965, the Revolutionary Government of Cuba requested that the question of Puerto Rico should be included in the agenda of the Committee of Twenty-four. The document reiterated an identical request by forty-seven Heads of State or Government meeting at the Second Conference of Non-Aligned Countries and echoed the demand of all the patriotic organizations of Puerto Rico. The Committee's working group recommended that a study should be made to ascertain whether Puerto Rico could be included in the list of territories which have not yet attained independence, thus postponing consideration of the matter until the Committee's next session. 115. The Cuban delegation reiterates its request that the General Assembly should take up the case of Puerto Rico without further delay.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“To be genuinely and consistently anti-colonialist is to demand first of all the abolition of United States colonial rule over Puerto Rico, whose people share our language, tradition and culture, whose independence, together with that of Cuba, was advocated by Jose Marti to complete Simon Bolivar's unfinished liberating mission and to build a barrier against the economic and political expansion of the United States into the southern part of the hemisphere. 114. The Cuban delegation believes that in accordance with the principles of the Charter and the anti-colonialist resolutions adopted by the United Nations, the General Assembly should take a stand on this matter.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“As an unabashed champion of anti-colonialism, the Cuban delegation calls for the support by all independent States of its sister island of Puerto Rico. The United States has used and is using every trick and stratagem to prevent this case from being considered by the General Assembly. It is not enough to clamour for the abolition of the last vestiges of European colonialism in Latin America.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“In Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, there are still nations subjected to the classic forms of colonialism, despite the principles of the Charter and the resolutions adopted by the United Nations, The Cuban delegation affirms its total support for the peoples of so-called Portuguese Guinea, Angola, Mozambique, Aden, Oman and all others struggling to free themselves from a foreign yoke. Similarly, it wishes to place on record its solidarity with the peoples of Rhodesia andSouth West Africa, subjugated, oppressed and humiliated by the white minority of fascist colonists, its condemnation of the revolting policy of apartheid, and its support for the Arab States in a just solution to the tragic problem of Palestine. 113.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“Its obsessive opposition to the consideration of this item, despite the increasingly large vote in favour of consideration every year, is reflected in the refusal to recognize the People's Republic of China and the foisting upon the Security Council, the General Assembly and all its organs of a handful of puppets, whose existence and representative nature are the exclusive creation of the firepower of the United States Seventh Fleet, The Cuban delegation will insist, as always, upon the restoration of the legitimate rights of the People's Republic of China and the consequent expulsion of the Chiang Kai-shek clique from all the positions which they illegally occupy. 112. The fact that imperialism is the enemy of the people is most sharply illustrated by the colonial drama.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“In accordance with this point of view, the Cuban delegation will sponsor a draft resolution confirming the self-determination, independence and sovereignty of the Korean people, and their Inalienable right to reunification of their country and demanding the immediate evacuation of all foreign troops still remaining In South Korea, the dissolution of the so-called United Nations Commission for the Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea, and an end to interference by the United Nations in the country's internal affairs. 111. The United States Government's aggressive policy in Asia is also reflected in connexion with the so-called question of the representation of China.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“The only question relating to Korea which the United Nations is competent to discuss is the immediate withdrawal of the aggressive imperialist forces which are illegally occupying the southern part of Korea under the United Nations flag, thus forcing the United Nations into the dishonourable role of instrument of aggression against a peaceful nation, 110.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“It is maintaining its military occupation of South Korea, which it has virtually converted into a colony and a base for aggression against the people of Asia, and continuing to block the peaceful reunification of the arbitrarily divided Korean nation. By taking unfair advantage of its automatic majority, the United States Government has again forced on the General Assembly the consideration of the so-called "Korean question", an item which is not only dead, but reeks of decay. Although it is true that the reunification of Korea is that nation's most ardent aspiration, the methods and forms by which this is to be achieved are a matter for the sole judgement of the Korean people, and the question therefore is wholly outside the competence of the United Nations.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“Similarly, the Kingdom of Cambodia is the constant object of threats and provocations by the Yankee imperialists and repeated violations of its frontiers by the armed forces of Thailand, for the ostensible purpose of forcing it to renounce its neutralist policy. But the governments and peoples of these countries under attack have already demonstrated their unshakable determination to defend their independence, sovereignty and territorial Integrity. Cuba supports the heroic struggle of Laos and Cambodia for the right to work out their own lives free from bondage or oppression. 109. In the Far East, Yankee imperialism continues to pursue a policy of violence, intervention, oppression and exploitation.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“It is worth emphasizing once again that any country which goes along with this manoeuvre openly or secretly, maintains a conspiratorial silence or retreats out of fear of the consequences of sticking to its principles, which is precisely what is at stake, will lose its moral authority for ever. You may be certain that the Revolutionary Government and people of Cuba will honour those principles, whatever the cost. 108. Imperialist aggression extends also to Laos, which has been artificially divided by Yankee interference in its domestic affairs, and it is of course that part of the country which abides by the Geneva Agreements which is the permanent target of the North American bombing, with its tragic sequel of death and destruction.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“The Revolutionary Government of Cuba fully supports these legitimate demands, and therefore demands the suspension of the bombing of the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam, the withdrawal of the armed forces of the United States and its allies from South Viet-Nam and strict compliance with the Geneva Agreements. It also takes this opportunity to reaffirm its militant solidarity with the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam and the National Liberation Front of South Viet-Nam, urges all progressive and revolutionary governments and peoples to give Viet- Nam all the material and technical assistance that it needs and denounces the false and dangerous peace offer made by the United States delegation. 107.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“"The combat troops and conventional weapons which the friends of Viet-Nam can place there will be incomparably superior to any that the imperialists can send. The imperialists will then have no alternative but to withdraw or risk having to assume responsibility for another kind of war." 105. The Cuban delegation is categorically opposed to any kind of United Nations interference or intervention in the question of Viet-Nam. The United Nations has no alternative but to endorse the four points of the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam and the five points of the National Liberation Front of South Viet-Nam unreservedly and unhesitatingly. This would indeed be an effective contribution by the Organization to the re-establishment of peace and security in South-East Asia. 106.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“We know that the Viet-Namese are fighting and dying against the world's chief enemy, rejecting the insolence of Yankee imperialism, and resisting its barbarous, unjustified and unspeakable attacks. In fighting on their own soil, the people of Viet-Nam are defending the right to freedom and independence not only for the Viet-Namese but for other peoples who are the potential victims of this imperialism. They are fighting for the other peoples of the world. Therefore, no people in the world, no revolutionary people will refuse the help that Viet-Nam needs. There can be no doubt that the imperialists are taking a course with no way out, for the day that the Government of Viet-Nam decides that this aid is necessary, Viet-Nam will become the grave of imperialist aggression.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“The Revolutionary Government of Cuba has repeatedly expressed its readiness to send volunteers when requested to do so, and its belief that it is imperative for progressive and revolutionary governments to offer the Viet-Namese people all the aid they require and to take whatever risks are necessary to destroy the aggressors and to root out the aggression. Viet-Nam is the first line of defence of the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Its sacrifices are our sacrifices. Its victory will be our victory. 104. In this context, I should like to quote some remarks made by the Prime Minister of the Revolutionary Government of Cuba, Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro, at the last commemoration of the 26th of July: "We know that the Viet-Namese are fighting today for all the peoples of the world.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“The movement against the imperialist war in Viet-Nam, together with the struggle of the Negro and Latin-American masses against racial discrimination and the fight of the intellectuals, teachers and students for the civil rights of the American people, will undoubtedly grow and contribute effectively to victory in the common struggle for a world without empires or imperialism, without oppressors or oppressed, without war or warriors. 103. Solidly united and inspired by an inexhaustible will to fight, the Viet-Namese people, with the aid and support of the progressive and revolutionary governments and peoples, will conquer their aggressors and be free to unify their country. If we wish to encourage this victory, however, we must expand and strengthen the world movement of solidarity with Viet-Nam.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“Among the people of the United States themselves — besieged by the giant machinery of imperialist propaganda with its lies and deceit — there is growing resistance to serving as accomplices in these crimes and as cannon fodder for the monopolies and warmongers. This resistance has reached such a pitch that the Government is earnestly studying the application of drastic measures to those who dissent from its policy.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“They have occupied a part of their territory and, with the connivance of the puppet governments of Saigon, they have launched against the patriotic forces of the National Liberation Front wave after wave of tanks, aircraft, and soldiers equipped with chemical and bacteriological weapons, while at the same time unleashing a savage campaign of oppression against the workers, peasants, students and all other elements of the population which support and assist its emancipating vanguard. But they have not succeeded and they will not succeed in turning back the patriotic forces of the National Liberation Front of South Viet-Nam, or weakening the resistance of the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam. 102.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“This heroic Viet-Nam is the noblest and most luminous demonstration that the most characteristic feature of our present age is at once the irresistible forward surge of national liberation movements and the inconquerable uprising of the peoples hitherto subjected to the yoke of colonialism or neo-colonialism. These two converging tides are chiefly responsible today for the forward march of history. 101. The Yankee imperialists have been forced to resort to every means of conventional warfare against the Viet-Namese people.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“99. The Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam and South Viet-Nam — one nation and one people — typify the two essential elements of the present international situation. On the one hand, victimized Viet-Nam demonstrates in its crudest form the savagery of United States imperialism. Its bombed cities, its ruined hospitals, schools, pagodas and factories, its slaughtered children and old people, and its violated women are living testimony that the unscrupulous methods of the Nazis have been surpassed. 100. One the other hand, heroic Viet-Nam, standing firm in the face of this attack and fighting heroically for its Independence, re-unification and the dignity of the homeland, has been, is, and will be unequivocal proof of the invincibility of peoples fighting for their freedom.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“All revolutionary and progressive Governments and peoples must remain very alert to this new Yankee imperialist trap, so as to fight it resolutely with words and deeds. It is not by listening to the siren song of the aggressors, nor by shattering the unity of the antiimperialist counter-offensive on false pretexts, nor by leaving the aggressors a clear field out of fear, that we can safeguard the self-determination, independence and sovereignty of the Democratic Republic of Viet- Nam and South Viet-Nam, and, in the end, peace itself. Nor can the resolutions calling for peace, formulated in the United Nations or outside it, be expected to be of any use. Peace is being won by the arms of the Viet-Namese people and will be consolidated to the extent to which we give them all the support possible in their just and necessary revolutionary war.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“The vast majority of delegations have already made their views known on this matter, and many of them will be unable to restrain their anger or astonishment at hearing the false report and the hypocritical peace offer made by the United States delegation. One need not be a clairvoyant to see that this report and this offer are intended to achieve the United States Government's threefold aim of deceiving the gullible, of imposing its conditions on the indomitable Viet-Namese people, and if it fails, and it will fail, of extending and stepping up its war of aggression by further and more reckless escalation. The Conference called at Manila by the President of the United States is part of this cunning strategy, which is inevitably doomed to failure. 98.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“It would be derisory to protest that this defiant and brutal policy is flouting and undermining the Charter of the United Nations and the most elementary rules of international law. It would be even more derisory to warn that this policy may threaten international peace and security. Manifestly, there is not, nor can there be, peace and security until the claws of Yankee imperialism are clipped at the scene of its crimes, or until its rule is overthrown. 96. World attention is now fixed on South-East Asia. Intervention and aggression try Yankee imperialism has turned that region into the focus of a dirty, criminal and cowardly war, whose rapid escalation holds within it the seeds of a large-scale conflict. 97.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“On the other hand, it is the duty of each Government to state its position in the general debate on all those problems which, because of their importance and urgency, demand special attention. 95. It is obvious that the international situation has deteriorated since the last General Assembly. What, fundamentally, is responsible for this deterioration? It is hardly necessary to state it, it is so well-known: Yankee imperialism. Asia, Africa and Latin America are today the prey of a United States policy of violence, barbarism, intervention, subversion and exploitation, and the risk grows larger every day that its regional wars and depredations will be escalated into a conflict of vast dimensions.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“Never has there been such a pressing need for clarity of expression and firmness of principle as at this dramatic juncture in international life. However, before expressing Cuba's views on these matters, I should like to convey to Mr. Abdul Rahman Pazhwak, the representative of Afghanistan, my sincere congratulations on his election as President of the General Assembly. I have pleasure in adding that he can count upon the co-operation of the Cuban delegation in carrying out his task. 94. The agenda before this session of the Assembly is a long one, and each item cannot be subjected to an exhaustive examination. Many, of course, are left over from previous Assemblies and some are lacking in urgency or have already been superseded by events.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“92. Exactly eight years ago, Cuba spoke in this hall for the first time since the founding of the United Nations, clearly and decisively as an independent nation. As a result of the victorious popular uprising of 1 January 1959, our country had ceased to be an obscure follower and had become the protagonist of one of the greatest revolutions of our time. Everyone knows that today Cuba has accomplished a feat of epic dimensions: it has built a socialist and communist society ninety miles from the shore of an empire vainly determined to turn back the inexorable tide of history. 93. The Cuban delegation, the true representative of the people and Government that made that feat a reality, once again is speaking out in this hall without ambiguity, soft-pedal or obsequiousness.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“Fidel Castro, the Prime Minister and leader of the revolution, expressed himself as follows: "Cuba's right to self-determination is sacred and inalienable; it is not a right which the Cuban people will proclaim at the rostrum or in the public square but a right that we shall defend to the last drop of our blood on the battlefield, a right that we shall defend in cur trenches with our weapons at our side, a right that we Cubans shall defend to the last patriot".”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“Leave Cuba in peace and you will see how the focus of international tension deliberately created by the United States Government for the manifest purpose of re-conquest and hegemony will at once disappear. 172. Yet I should warn you that the last word in the defence of Cuba's self-determination, independence and sovereignty rests with its people. On the occasion of the announcement of a forthcoming intervention by the Organization of American State in the affairs of our country, Dr.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“Thus this' imperialist Government refuses an honourable and peaceful understanding with a small country like ours and proclaims the necessity of destroying the work of our revolution". 170. Mr. Alfonso Arino de Melho Franco, the distinguished former Foreign Minister and present representative of Brazil, stated the position of the genuinely representative Governments of Latin America towards the Cuban revolution plainly and unequivocally: "Respect for sovereignty, based on the principle of non-intervention"—I am quoting literally—"constitutes an imperative duty of international life and an essential condition for the restoration of continental harmony. Brazil considers that Cuba alone can decide its own destiny". 171.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“The revolution gained in strength and cohesiveness after the victory against the invaders; nevertheless, not only did we again express our desire to live in peace and to develop our country without external military conflicts but we also proposed, and explicitly stated our readiness to accept, the friendly mediation of various Latin American Governments in exploring the possibilities of just and honourable negotiations with the Government of the United States The arrogant response of the Government of the United States of America to the peaceful and dignified conduct on the part of the Cuban Revolutionary Government was to pursue its aggressive aims and to declare its irrevocable determination not to enter into any negotiations with the Cuban Government.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“Osvaldo Dorticos, the President of the Republic, when he spoke at the Belgrade Conference of Non- Aligned Countries, it "organized a commercial and economic blockade against our little country, fostered a conspiracy of terrorism under the direction of the Central Intelligence Agency, and crowned its villainies with the bombardment and armed invasion of our territory". 169. The President went on to say: "With outstanding courage, the Cuban people routed the mercenary troops which the Government of the United States, on its own- confession, had equipped and organized to destroy the Cuban revolution.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“It does not and cannot constitute a threat to any country, least of all to the United States, whose arsenals are overflowing with thermonuclear bombs and rockets. Cuba has declared over and over again that it is prepared to settle its differences with the United States through bilateral negotiations, on a footing of equality and with an open agenda, excluding only the subject of its independence and sovereignty, which are not negotiable. 168. The Government of the United States, however, not only has stubbornly refused to enter into unconditional discussions with Cuba but, to use the words of Dr.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“And let us also say that, despite the worthy efforts made by a minority of respected and respectable Governments, the Organization of American States has given the green light to the United States Government's aggressive and interventionist policy towards Cuba. It has not been this Organization which has so far prevented a United States military invasion, as it ought to have done in accordance with the letter of its standards and principles; it has rather been the Cuban people's decision to conquer or die, the warnings of the Soviet Union, the1 support of the socialist camp, the backing of the non-aligned countries, the firm attitude of various Latin American Governments and the militant solidarity of all the peoples of the world. 167. Cuba is a small country which asks only to be allowed to work out its own life in peace.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“The shameless allegations, oblique references and appeals for surrender which we have heard from certain specific speakers or have read in the Press— including statements by two Presidents of Latin American Republics, one abjuring the principle of non-intervention and the other offering his adherence to the "free world" in exchange for his preservation in power—are in conformity with the strategy and tactics of the United States Government. 166. Let us. hear no more of these hypocritical lamentations and dubious digressions about Cuba having withdrawn from the "inter-American system". Let us tell the truth. Let us say that Cuba can neither admit nor accept the United States Government's concept of the Organization of American States as a Ministry of Colonies.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“The renewal of the campaign of calumny against the Cuban revolution by the news services of the Department of State and the forgery of official documents by the Central Intelligence Agency with the connivance of Cuban counter-revolutionaries are the basic ingredients of the plan to isolate Cuba diplomatically. A secondary theme which it has shamelessly exploited has been the Revolutionary Government's behaviour to the Catholic Church, which, like all religions, has been and will continue to be scrupulously respected by the Revolutionary Government so long as its activities remain within the law. Similarly, the propaganda conducted by United States imperialism and its henchmen sheds crocodile tears over the execution, in conformity with the legislation in force, of war. criminals, terrorists, traitors and foreign agents. 165.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“It will then seek in the Organization of American States to give these measures a collective character, thus setting the stage for a military aggression, also of a collective character, on the pretext that Cuba constitutes "a danger to the security of the hemisphere" because it intervenes in the domestic affairs of other States, and thus, with unparalleled cynicism, trying to make the victim of its acts of aggression and interference, perpetrated in collusion with its Latin American vassals, appear to be the villain of the piece. 164.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“In view of the obstacles which, since the Inter- American Economic Conference at Punta del Este and the failure of the military coup in Brazil, it has encountered in its efforts to convene a meeting of the Presidents of the Latin American Republics in Washington and subsequently a conference of Foreign Ministers, the United States Government is bringing pressure to bear on the Latin American Governments to force them individually and in turn to break off diplomatic relations with the Revolutionary Government of Cuba, just as it has already succeeded in doing, by similar methods, with Guatemala, Peru, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Costa Rica.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“Again today we challenge him to prove the authenticity of the documents which the Central Intelligence Agency has forged and which are said to have been removed from the Cuban Embassy at Buenos Aires. We know in advance that the result will be the same. 163. The purpose of these manoeuvres is quite clear.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“Fidel Castro, the Prime Minister of the Revolutionary Government, are Convincing proofs of this sinister intrigue; so also are the clandestine printing of a preposterous decree according to which the right of patria potestas is to be revoked and the crude forgery of documents attributed to the Cuban Foreign Office which was done at more or less the same time in Argentina and the Philippines with the object of forcing those Governments to break off diplomatic relations with Cuba. 162. The trick is as old as it is contemptible. When on 15 April last we challenged the United States representative to produce the mythical pilots of the Cuban Air Force who were supposed to have deserted and to have bombed Havana, the facts proved that those pilots were mercenaries in the pay of the Government of the United States.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“On this occasion the Cuban delegation will merely place the General Assembly on the alert and provide it with some background data. The territory of the United States, the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, the plantations of Guatemala, the ranches of Nicaragua, the estates of the Dominican Republic and the Panama Canal Zone have been and are being used as training camps and centres for mercenaries, and the agents of the Central Intelligence Agency and Cuban counter-revolutionaries are, by various ways and means, smuggling explosive material and arms into Cuba for purposes of sabotage, acts of terrorism and attacks on individuals. The discovery of he plan to assassinate Major Raul Castro, Minister of the Armed Forces, which was conceived and planned at the United States military base of Guantanamo, and the recent plot to do away with Dr.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“The President of the United States himself has publicly accepted full responsibility for the organization, financing, direction and failure of the invasion by mercenaries at Playa Giron which was crushed by the Cuban people and their armed forces. 160. Despite the Universal revulsion which this act of piracy aroused in world public opinion, the United States Government is preparing new plans of aggression and acts of interference, in complete contempt of the Charter of the United Nations and the Charter of the Organization of American States and of international peace and security. It was to expose these new plans of aggression and acts of interference, with the aid of incontrovertible facts and dates, that the Cuban complaint was submitted for inclusion in the agenda. 161.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“Well, is its Government or its people to blame for that or is it the sole fault of - United States imperialism, which, in its idle attempt to restore the crumbling colonial system and to impose a puppet government on the Cuban people has not hesitated to endanger international peace and security? 159. The repeated and well-grounded accusations and claims which Cuba has made in the Security Council and in the General Assembly have been provoked by the wilful acts of aggression and intervention by the United States Government in its internal affairs. I am not inventing any tendentious stories; I . and presenting incontrovertible facts.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)