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“Mr. President, please allow me to congratulate you upon the well-earned and well-deserved unanimity with which you have been elected to preside over our deliberations during the present session of the General Assembly. May we all succeed together in steering safely the ship of the Assembly through the agitated seas in which it will have to sail. 108. The world has been tense and grim while living with the haunting anxieties of recent events. At a moment when a glimmer of hope for disarmament and the stability of peace was looming before our eyes, happenings in Berlin and in several other spheres were almost suddenly made, or allowed, to take a bad turn and lead to a steeper and more ominous arms race. 109.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“It has already started to build the High Dam on the Nile, which is expected to add about one-third to the cultivable area in the southern region. It is redoubling its efforts towards a more effective use of rain and sub-soil water and a better harnessing of rivers, in order to further extend the cultivable area in the north, as well as in the south. It is expanding substantially its oil, mining and other industries. Thus it keeps a firm grip on itself, gains momentum for its progress, and, in all humility and steadfast resolve, it is, out of self-interest and realistic idealism, working for peace and for peace alone.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“We are all equally aware that a sane and up-to-date approach to these relationships would not be one which recklessly divides nations into big, less big and small, in order to form an opinion as to who can destroy whom, but an approach solidly based on the wonderful and impelling realities of our times in which, fortunately, the only safe competition between us, if we are to survive, would be in terms of usefulness of each of us to himself and to the rest of the world. 58. With this understanding and in this spirit, and along with many oilier countries, the United Arab Republic is working hard and assiduously to improve the health, the education and the standard of living of its people. It is making the Suez Canal increasingly adequate for the requirements of modern navigation.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“The huge and still expanding oil production in the Arab countries and the prosperous and rapidly growing navigation in the Suez Canal, for the good of all within and beyond the immediate area of these two great pillars of world peace and prosperity, are illustrations of what many areas will be able to do, much more than at present, for their own and humanity's happiness, peace and security, if only we are all given a breathing spell in which constructiveness can have definitely the upper hard and in which common sense can finally prevail. Even if some feign to ignore it, we are all folly aware of the fact that for everybody's prosperity and honour it is far better that peaceful co-operation be the common denominator in international relationships rather than domination and exploitation.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“Improvements in the Canal and its services and facilities are carried out in bold and imaginative strokes, and the Canal Authority is looking forward to coping with a volume of trade which will be several times bigger than the present record. 56. We have promised that the Canal shall always be in good shape and adequate for the requirements of modern navigation, in full freedom and perfect goodwill. I submit that we are keeping and are determined to keep our word. 57.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“It gives me added pleasure to be able to point out at the same time the fact that the relations of cooperation and of mutual understanding between the Suez Canal Authority and all the shipping circles dealing with it are at their best. These circles are watching with admiration accompanied by enlightened self-interest the steadiness, the accuracy and the progressive spirit which mark all the aspects of the huge work done by the present management of the Canal. This admiration takes on even stronger tones when the tremendous difficulties are recalled, including outside sabotage, standing, especially at the beginning, in the way of the new management, which had, after all, very little experience, if any, in running such a canal.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“In 1958, which was the first complete post-aggression year, the number of transits was nearly 18,000, as compared to the less than 15,000 in 1955; and the tonnage was more than 154 million, as compared to the 1955 tonnage of less than 116 million. During the first nine months of 1959 the number of transits was well over 13,000 with a tonnage of-nearly 121 millions; and it is reasonably expected that the total traffic of this year will be around 18,000 in number of transits and 160 millions in tonnage, which will mark an increase of about 33 per cent over and above the figures reached in the pre-aggression record year of 1955. 55.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“Facts, not fiction, demonstrate how loyal we have been to the principles embedded in the 1888 Constantinople Convention which, as will be recalled, have been reaffirmed in a declaration made on 24 April 1957 by my Government, This was followed, on 18 July 1957, by a further declaration that was communicated by the Foreign Minister of Egypt to the Secretary-General by which the Government of Egypt accepted the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, in accordance with Article 36, paragraph 2, of the Statute of the Court. 54. The record of the Canal since the Arab management took over speaks for itself. In 1955, which was the last complete year before aggression, and in which the highest mark until then was reached, the number of transits through the Canal was less than 15,000, with a tonnage of less than 116 million.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“I shall submit facts and figures demonstrating, at least in part, the immense contribution of the Canal, under Arab management, to international navigation and trade, a contribution far greater than any previously made. These facts and figures are self-explanatory. The traffic and progress they represent are not imaginary, but are as real as anything can be. Navigation in the Suez Canal is in perfect health. Let not world political Zionism fool anybody away from this reality; let it not sell to us, out of a clear sky, an artificial storm Which does not exist. There are, God knows, enough storms in the world beyond the little cups with which world political Zionism and Israel are playing. 53.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“Least of all could we expect to hear from these quarters a single word or even a faint whisper about the martyrdom of the Arabs of Palestine, about their rights and the raw daylight robbery of which they have been the victims. No, of course, they would not even lightly touch upon these, to them, cumbersome topics. They would rather hasten to accuse others of imaginary aggressive intentions before others array again, for the Assembly to remember, the many red aggressions committed by Israel and recognized and deplored as such by the United Nations. And they would include in their accusation a synthetic problem exclusively made in Israel and presented as a problem of the freedom of navigation through the Suez Canal.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“Nor would we risk the hope that they will choose to remind the Assembly that the present practice regarding navigation in the Suez Canal is not new, and that the original sin is in the plunder of Palestine from the Arabs. We could hardly expect them, either, to put forth for our perusal the very long list of United Nations resolutions, warnings, rebukes and agreements, which Israel has Ignored completely until today, including the General Armistice Agreement between Egypt and Israel, "which is violated systematically and even pronounced dead by Israel, and on which was based the Security Council resolution of 1 September 1951 [558th meeting] that Israel tries, nevertheless, to separate from its context and to single out for implementation. 52.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“Some — shall we call them political Zionists or Zionizing politicians? — have tried recently to disfigure the splendid record of accomplishment and steady improvement which has been established by the Arab management of the Canal. They tried to manufacture a new situation where nothing was really new, and to force into it a heap of irrelevancies and artificialities regarding which we shall not be drawn into empty polemics. And, for example, when Mrs. Golda Meir and Mr. Selwyn Lloyd preach to us on the virtues of freedom of navigation, when they thus seem to forget the 1956 canal-wrecking misadventure of the three raving musketeers, we do not even bother to wonder whether we should commiserate with them for their loss of memory.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“Referring to what he terms "questions raised by present policies regarding the Suez Canal”, the Secretary-General, in his introduction to his annual report on the work of the Organization, stated: "The issue has important legal aspects which may be considered as meriting further clarification but it is also part of the general Palestine problem [A/4132/Add.1, p,5.]." We have, and we are entitled to have, our own views regarding this issue which is obviously of vital importance to us. In point of fact, this issue has arisen exclusively as an outgrowth and an extension of the question of Palestine. It could not conceivably exist were the rights of the Palestinian Arabs recognized fully and actually. It will not persist, but will, as a matter of course, melt away automatically and disappear as soon as such recognition takes place. 51.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“Without peace and co-operation, the Suez Canal was, in 1956, impeded from playing its great role, with results so harmful that many, when they think of them, still feel as they do when they remember a very bad dream. With the return of peaceful conditions and with cooperation, the Suez Canal has resumed completely its active position as a principal link of trade and of goodwill among the nations of the earth. 50.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“This becomes more painfully conspicuous every time we cast another look at the possibilities of good, of good for all, which can readily follow a new, a genuinely civilized and up-to-date approach to the problems which face us. 49. With peace and co-operation, oil has, in great profusion, flowed from our area into the industries, shipping and aviation of Europe and other parts of the world. With peace and co-operation, this oil of our area can be confidently expected to meet the steady increase in the need for it. Without peace and cooperation, its flow was hampered and interrupted in 1956, and the resulting damage to Europe and other parts is sorrowfully remembered until today.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“The stand of my Government and people by the Government and people of Algeria in their struggle for independence, for the redeeming and preservation of all their rights and for the territorial integrity of all of their country, shall be maintained, as steadfast and as determined as ever. Let us hope that, in spite of many discouraging factors, the moment is near when Algeria will cease to be so recklessly martyred and will take its well deserved place of dignity and of honour as an independent nation, willing and able to contribute generously to general prosperity and international peace. 48. What has been happening for years in, and in relation to, Algeria, is sadly typical of the distracting and disrupting factors and events which hamper or slow down the prevalence of peace and progress in many parts of the world.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“We wish to trust that the proper atmosphere and adequate guarantees will be provided for the free exercise, by the Algerians, of self-determination — atmosphere and guarantees regarding which we are in full accord with our Algerian brothers. We wish to trust, furthermore, that the Government of France will not indefinitely entrench itself in the untenable position of not wanting to negotiate with the obvious and real representatives of the people, and that it will promptly discard the thought of dealing with those who are not leading, who are not fighting and who are not in possession of even as little as a toy gun. 47.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“My Government has carefully examined this declaration. It did so with all possible detachment and objectivity and it has at least its initial views concerning it. It will naturally be for the Algerians, and for them alone, to form their own opinion and make their own decisions. 46. We note and register the recognition by the Government of France of the right of the Algerians to self-determination; and we note and register the constructiveness and the sense of balance which permeate the statement made by the Provisional Government of Algeria of its position regarding the declaration announcing that recognition.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“They have therefore especially welcomed the statements which the Secretary-General made later and in which, as was to be expected, he reaffirmed his respect for the rights of the refugees and the resolutions of the United Nations regarding them. The concern which had been felt and expressed by some of us on this occasion was clearly a measure of the depth of the convictions and emotions in this respect embedded in every Arab mind and heart and in the minds and hearts of many others. 45. Similar convictions and emotions prevail in relation to several other big questions of our time, particularly the question of Algeria. Talk has recently been going around of a new French plan for resolving this question. On 16 September 1959 the President of the French Republic made a declaration outlining the plan.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“The document submitted by the Secretary-General dated 15 June 1959 [A/4121 and Corr.1] entitled "Proposals for the Continuation of United Nations Assistance to Palestine Refugees” has naturally been the subject of careful study and thought. The crux of it, especially as accurately measured by relevance, is a sentence of only six words in which the Secretary-General says, “I recommend the continuation of UNRWA”. To this we readily agree, pending the definitive and equitable solution of the question of Palestine. We have all often agreed with Mr. Hammarskjold. But when to some of us he Seemed to cast, I am sure involuntarily, a shadow on the undimmable and inalienable rights of the Palestinian Arab Nation, they could not help entertaining a feeling of concern.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“The area from which I come is an expressive illustration of the prospects and the difficulties accompanying the work of development and progress in many an area all over the globe. Besides the importance of its geographical position, its human and natural resources, its present and, infinitely more, its potential ability to contribute to international peace and security and to humanity’s prosperity and happiness, are really immense. 43. Yet how can these advantages be fully and properly realized in the presence of such factors and events as the fighting and the sad happenings in Algeria, Buraimi, Oman, the southern parts of the Arabian peninsula, and as the tragic plight and unredeemed rights of the Arab nation of Palestine? 44.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“It is the use, or rather abuse, by some Powers of their position as arms-producing countries to tempt, or to exert pressure on, other countries in need of arms. 40. The Conference meeting in Accra last year referred to this aspect in the following terms: "The Conference … “5. Condemns the policy of using the sale of arms as a means of exerting pressure on Governments and interfering in the internal affairs of other countries. "The re-channelling of the world’s resources into determined endeavours for human advancement is admittedly overdue. 41. it is true that there have been, that there still are, factors and events distracting attention away from constructiveness. It is true too, however, that the urge and action for the rehabilitation of the peoples of the world are steadily and rapidly gaining momentum. 42.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“Luckily, there is no other choice than to overcome whatever difficulties there might remain between us and our goal of disarmament and of diverting the world’s human and economic resources to peaceful purposes; and luckily, too, the opinions of mankind are now so alerted regarding this matter, and so alive to its insuperably great .implications, that no delay and no laxity in connexion with it will for long be tolerated. 38. We therefore commend the efforts made in this connexion by the United Nations as a whole, and by some of its Members. We wish success to their imminent meetings, resuming talks on the cessation of nuclear and thermo-nuclear tests and on disarmament. 39. Another aspect of disarmament is one regarding which my delegation has submitted, on various previous occasions, my Government’s views.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“In point of fact the two words "practical solution” sum up the whole difficulty standing in the way of agreement on disarmament. 36. It has been said, and rightly, that no practical Solution could be had as long as the crisis of confidence persists. But merely saying this does not help progress towards our goal. Further exploration must be made in order to find and establish and organize the elements of mutual confidence: in other words, to Set up and activate the mechanics of a reliable system of fact-finding and of control. This is going to be extremely difficult; but we are not supposed to reach only for easy things. 37.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“Khrushchev [799th meeting], and several other distinguished leaders have presented to it and those they will present to it. 35. That the regulation of armaments and the reduction to a minimum of the appalling burden of military expenses is the objective has been agreed with virtual unanimity since the San Francisco Conference, or even before. But the obstacles besetting the road to the attainment of that objective have been and are Still almost staggeringly big. This is one reason why we consider the key sentence in the explanatory memorandum [A/4218] accompanying the item presented by the delegation of the Soviet Union to be the one which "expresses the hope that the United Nations, and every Member State, will do its utmost to obtain a practical solution to the problem of general and complete disarmament”.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“"Appeals to the conscience of the world to condemn this threat to the lives and security of the African people, and “3. “Recommends to the Governments and peoples of Africa to protest in the most energetic and formal manner to the French Government to desist from carrying out the proposed tests in the Sahara." 33. There is no reason why we should not, and every reason why we should, take at present as firm and clear a stand in this regard as those taken unanimously by the Conferences of San Francisco, Bandung, Accra and Monrovia; nay, the only stand which can today genuinely represent and express in relation to this vital matter the feelings, the convictions and the instinct of survival of mankind. 34. The Assembly will of course, and with due care, study the various relevant and important proposals which the Soviet Premier, Mr.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“The Conference of Independent African States, meeting at Monrovia, Liberia from 4 to 8 August 1959 adopted in its resolution II the following: "Noting with deep concern the decision of the French Government to carry out nuclear tests in the Sahara, "Recalling the resolution of the Accra Conference of Independent African States which viewed with grave alarm and strongly condemned all atomic tests in any part of the world and in particular the intention to carry out such tests in the Sahara, "Considering the grave dangers these nuclear tests will hold for the people of Africa in general and in particular those living in the Sahara and the adjacent territories, "1. "Denounces vigorously and with profound indignation, the decision of any Government to carry out nuclear tests in the Sahara or in any other part of Africa, "2.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“Calls upon the great Powers to discontinue the production of nuclear and thermo-nuclear weapons and to suspend all such tests not only in the interest of world peace but as a symbol of their avowed devotion to the rights of man; "2. Views with grave alarm and strongly condemns all atomic tests in any part of the world, and in particular the intention to carry out such tests in the Sahara; "3, Appeals to the great Powers to use atomic, nuclear and thermo-nuclear energy exclusively for peaceful purposes; “4. Affirms the view that the reduction of conventional armaments is essential in the interest of international peace and security and appeals to the great Powers to make every possible effort to reach a settlement of this important matter. 32.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“"The Conference declared that universal disarmament Is an absolute necessity for the preservation of peace and requested the United Nations to continue its efforts and appealed to all concerned speedily to bring about the regulation, limitation, control and reduction of all armed forces and armaments, including the prohibition of the production, experimentation and use of all weapons of mass destruction, and to establish effective international control to this end." Thus spoke in Bandung the representatives of nearly two-thirds of our human race. 31. The Conference of Independent African States, meeting in Accra from 15 to 20 April 1958 adopted the following text: "The Conference ... "1.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“It considered that the nations of Asia and Africa assembled here have a duty towards humanity and civilization to proclaim their support for disarmament and for the prohibition of these weapons and to appeal to nations principally concerned and to world opinion, to bring about such disarmament and prohibition. "The Conference considered that effective international control should be established and maintained to implement such prohibition and that speedy and determined efforts should be made to this end. Pending the total prohibition of the manufacture of nuclear and thermo-nuclear weapons, the Conference appealed to all the powers concerned to reach agreement to suspend experiments with such weapons.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“The Asian-African Conference having considered the dangerous situation of international tension existing and the risks confronting the whole human race from the outbreak of global war in which the destructive power of all types of armaments, including nuclear and thermo-nuclear weapons, would be employed, invited the attention of all nations to the terrible consequences that would follow if such a war were to break out. "The Conference considered that disarmament and the prohibition of the production, experimentation and use of nuclear and thermo-nuclear weapons of war are imperative to save mankind and civilization from the fear and prospect of wholesale destruction.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“It can, in a sense, legislate, by common agreement and by the communion of its Members with high ideals and worthy objectives. 29. In San Francisco in 1945 the Members of the United Nations agreed that plans should be formulated for the establishment of a system for the regulation of armaments, in order, as it is stated in Article 26 of the Charter "to promote the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security with the least diversion for armaments of the world’s human and economic resources". 30. The final communique of the Asian-African Conference held at Bandung, in 1955, stated: “2.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“What all are particularly aware of is the ever more intense feeling of resentment and of horror generated in this connexion throughout the world. 27. It is the considered opinion of my Government that the General Assembly should promptly make an injunction — we can call it a recommendation if we have to — against any further tests of nuclear or thermonuclear bombs, be it by France in the African Sahara or anywhere else by any other Power. 28. No short-sighted political opportunism, no devious legalistics should deter us from accomplishing this sacred duty. This Organization is not, and should never be, a helpless viewer of events. It can greatly help in shaping events. This Organization is not, either, a mere interpreter, or, worse Still, a distorter of the laws.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“We shall feel more convinced and reassured when armaments will be regulated, when the tests of nuclear and thermo-nuclear bombs will be excluded from the scene and when, among other things, the Government of France will forego its project, for so-called reasons of prestige and of position, to imitate some others by carrying out its own nuclear tests in the African Sahara. It is by now admitted as an indisputable fact that, once they are exploded, those bombs unleash tremendous and uncontrollable forces of destruction within and without the borders of the State which is responsible for them. 26. We are not aware of there being, in the laws of nations or in the good norms of human behaviour, any warrant for actions of that nature. Nor is the International Law Commission or any other qualified body aware of the existence of such a warrant.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“From Cairo we have been, as usual, looking at the world and watching closely the trends and the course of its affairs; and we assume that the world has been looking a little at us too. The prospects of world peace at present seem to be generally better. We welcome the recent meetings between many of the leaders of various States, including those between some of the leaders of the two main rival blocs. We Shall value these and similar meetings still more if and when they prove actually to have inaugurated an era of closer consultations, increased mutual understanding, less mutual suspicion, and more righteousness and positiveness in relation to the building up of the structure of international peace. 25.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“22. Late though I am in taking part in this debate, l am happy and privileged to join in congratulating both the Assembly and yourself upon your election to preside over our deliberations. The high esteem and the affection which we all have for you, Mr. Belaúnde, together with our hearty wishes for your success and that of the Assembly will accompany you. 23. With the steady growth in the membership of this Organization, and the consequent prospect of fourscore or more opening speeches, it has become almost an act of daring to venture forth to this rostrum during the general debate. I shall try to be brief. If I succeed, much of the credit for it will be due to the representatives who have spoken before me and spared me the need for saying what would be a mere recapitulation of what they have stated. 24.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“It is the time in which we live and the air which we breathe. This is what it is, we Say; yes, this is what it is.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“In my statement to the Assembly today, and at the risk of seeming unduly self-conscious as an Arab, I have ventured, in my turn, to say a few words about the resurgence of Arab nationhood. In doing so, I have been speaking, as others have before me, of a wide range of problems, problems of growth, problems of cleavages and of struggles between old and new, and between so-called vested interests, which are war prizes of domination, and the inherent, legitimate rights of the erstwhile browbeaten peoples of the earth. 88. In this and similar connexions some friends, and some others, have been telling us facetiously or maliciously what a lot of quarrelsome people we Arabs are. "It is not being quarrelsome", we say, "it is being alive". It is that we find ourselves in this cycle of history and are faced with this avalanche of events.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“Not unrelated to the freedom of peaceful self- expression, there is still another freedom regarding which my Government welcomes the fact that, though in degrees varying from unhappy reluctance to near acceptance, the big Powers are showing more understanding of our neutrality, of our freedom to be neutral, than heretofore, and are outgrowing the childishness of being peeved and suspicious every time they note that we are on reasonable terms with all, and not exclusively so with one or the other of their respective blocs. They show less irritation than they did before, and less surprise, when we recall that ours is the stand of the Charter of the "United" Nations not the "divided" nations; and they appear to be almost resigned to the thought, even if less than almost resigned to the fact, of our neutrality. 87.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“Nor should we allow ourselves even faintly to suggest that a comparison and a choice be made between the freedom of speech, even if occasionally roughshod, and the artificiality and spinelessness of the standardized, prefabricated and dolled-up kind of chatter which some wish us to adopt as our way of self-expression. 86.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“It might be that some broadcasts, including some of ours, require a little pruning here and there. As far as we are concerned in the United Arab Republic, we are already attending to this part of our business. 85. None of all this should mean, however, that the freedom, for all, of peaceful and constructive speech should be stifled or tampered with under the guise of moderation, or any other guise, or that we should be entitled to describe as nasty and destructive every word which does not exactly coincide with our way of thinking or which does not fall softly enough on our delicate ears.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“The fact is that these broadcasts are feared and hated, not because they have a stronger financial backing, or are technically better equipped, but because they tell the truth which people today understand readily with their minds and feel deeply in their hearts, and because they tell this truth in the plain sun-baked language of 1958. 84. At the same time, those who are so critical in that respect are turning deaf ears to all the criticism, even by some from their own ranks, of their broadcasts of intrigue and of slander against the Arabs and their real leaders. It should, therefore, be clear to all by now that the Arabs hold no monopoly of verbosity or of piquant language, and that the self-complacent accusations in this regard against some of us Arabs must forthwith be disposed of.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“My Government is at the same time consulting and concerting action with the other Arab Governments for the activating of the resolution, which was adopted on 3 June 1957 by the Economic Council of the Arab League on the establishment of an Arab investment fund for economic development. In drafting that resolution the members of the Arab League had principally in mind such relevant provisions of the United Nations Charter as those of Article 55. 82. One of the basic freedoms of the Charter and of our times is the freedom of peaceful self-expression on which, as I have done already on economic and social development and rehabilitation. I ask leave, to make some brief comment. 83. It has been claimed that some Arab broadcasts do not conform to certain standards.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“Nevertheless, it is common knowledge that the gap between this potential wealth -and the prevailing low standard of production and of living is painfully large. The Arab States are organizing and redoubling their efforts aiming at filling this gap, and they wish to trust that they will not be distracted by such interruptions, interventions and aggressions as those which have been absorbing much of their energy and sapping much of their strength in recent years. 81. The Government and people of the United Arab Republic are fully aware of the great and worthy task of economic and social progress which is so imperatively incumbent upon them; and they have made and will continue to make determined efforts in this direction.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“It will not and cannot be unduly deviated or hustled, but will flow into the coming years and centuries with whatever individuals or groups or nations have contributed to it. My people and my Government firmly believe that it would not be wise to try to do violence to history, and they are shaping their policy in the light of this belief. While history is taking its course, and wherever this course will ultimately lead, the world has recently seen unfolding, pending other developments and later growth, the birth certificate of what might be called the United Arab Nations. 80. The Arabs live in an area which, like several other areas of the world, is potentially rich to the extreme. It is potentially so rich in agriculture, in minerals, in oil, in trade and in industry.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“Meanwhile, the Arab nation is there, not in isolation from what is going on in the world but communing and reacting with much of it, particularly with the renaissance, the awakening and the heeding of the call of freedom which have recently accompanied the most significant events in such sprawling areas as Asia, Africa and South America. And Arab nationhood is there, with no less claim to being and to self-expression than that of other nations, including several big Powers, whose people are not linked together with ties of race, language and culture as close as the ties permeating the very soul and the very substance of Arab existence. 79. History will, naturally, take its course.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“It is no wonder, therefore, that, within the brief space of thirteen years since the inception of the United Nations and besides the discussions on Arab questions at the regular sessions and meetings of this Organization, the General Assembly has held three special sessions to discuss problems and crises in relation to the Arabs and their lands, and only one special session to deal with a non-Arab question. In 1948 there was a special session on Palestine; in 1956 an emergency special session was held to discuss the Suez crisis; and in 1958 it was again in relation to the Arabs and their lands that the third emergency special session of the General Assembly was held. 78.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“In the southern parts of the Arabian Peninsula and in Oman there can be no peace and stability as long as foreign armed forces fight the people and deny them their inalienable rights. 75. As to Cyprus, the mess which some quarters in London call policy must be speedily gotten out of, and the right of the valiant and martyred people of that island to self-determination must be recognized. 76. During the last few years the Arabs have had a relatively big share of problems and of cares due, probably, to the geography of their lands and to the sequence and rhythm of historical events. The Balfour Declaration, 1917; Palestine, 1947; Algeria, 1954; and Suez, 1956, are only a few of the many crises which have beset the Arabs' road to finding themselves again and to being themselves. 77.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“The formation of a provisional Government of Algeria was announced on 19 September 1958. A few days later that Government made a statement of policy in which it declared that the Algerians will not lay. down arms until their right to national sovereignty is recognized; that the Algerian people are not the enemies of the French people, but are the enemies of French imperialism; and that the Government of Algeria is ready to enter into negotiations with France at any time. The road to a sane and peaceful future in relation to Algeria is therefore clear, and we should all rejoice in realizing that today is indeed a new day and that the hands of the clock will not be set back. 73. Regarding the question of Palestine, the rights, equities and injustices remain the same. So does the policy of my Government. 74.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“How otherwise can we explain the policy and the actions of some Governments and groups in relation to such problems as those of Algeria, Palestine, the southern parts of the Arabian Peninsula, Oman and Cyprus? 71. The answer to tire by now unnecessary question whether the people of Algeria want to be independent has been given already, in no equivocal terms, by the sons and daughters of Algeria, who have decided, with their sacrifices and their blood, to live or die in dignity and to be free. This is the real referendum which all the fair-minded and the peace-loving can honestly recognize; this and not the spurious one manufactured in France — in a France which may not yet have run out of glory and of noble deeds, although too many of its leaders are by no means at their finest hour. 72.”
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