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“Denying it its right to be, to grow and to express itself freely in peaceful ways, is one of the many peace-shattering denials of which the Powers and the leaders to whom I have referred are guilty. They deny evolution. They call it revolt. They deny freedom for others. They call it chaos. They deny other people's right to choose their own government. They call it connivance. They deny other people's right and duty to tell the truth. They call it roundabout aggression — or do they call it indirect aggression? And they — these determined denyers — deny the very time in which we all live, and they act as if that were centuries ago, back in the dark Middle Ages. 70.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“Whether in Asia or in Africa, the Arabs, whose power had temporarily waned, particularly during the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, have had the degrading and humiliating misfortune- some of them still have this misfortune — of falling under the yoke. 69. Most of the Arabs have, by now, regained their freedom and rehabilitated themselves, and the world is watching what many call the resurgence of Arab nationalism. Some of us prefer to describe this phase of history as the reassertion of Arab nationhood, and are reluctant to — as they say — unrealistically crowd it with the many dissimilarisms of human gregariousness which have been in vogue for quite some time. Be that as it may with the busy terminologists, Arab nationalism — or nationhood — is there, genuine and real.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“We all remember or watch the happenings of this greatest of all games, the game between slavery and freedom, which Has been going on with increasing intensity and with mankind as its prize. 67. It is heartening to see that most of Asia has regained its freedom, but it is distressing to note, on the other hand, that most of the peoples of that vast continent remain poor, uneducated and in an unsatisfactory state of health. A similar and sometimes more distressing picture can be drawn of some other parts of the world, especially of the greater part of Africa, which is still groaning miserably under the yoke or in the wake of foreign domination and exploitation. 68.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“But we are all duty-bound not to lull ourselves into the illusion that the battle is even half won. In fact, it has barely begun and victory is not brought nearer by the failure or the refusal of many leaders of men and some powerful Governments to recognize the full portent and the inevitability of the present mighty evolution towards a new world, one world, a world of freedom and of respect for the dignity and the worth of the human person. Even when those leaders and Governments seem to step out of some of their anachronisms, out of postures and positions of theirs which have become indefensible and untenable, they often try hard, try desperately, to retrieve and recapture whatever they have abandoned.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“And ours is distinctly an age of active longings, of positive hope, of visions becoming facts and of the realization of dreams. Yet, before dreams become realities, one has to wake up and, waking up, one is apt to find that the road is still rugged, though not impassable. 64. While the area of freedom is spreading and deepening in some parts, it recedes and shrinks in others; and the struggle for human dignity and welfare will have to continue against such plagues as foreign domination, race discrimination and appallingly low physical and moral standards of living. 65. There have been on the road some luminous signposts, such as Geneva, League of Nations, 1919; Cairo, Arab League, 1945; San Francisco, United Nations, 1945; Bandung, Asian-African Conference, 1955; and Accra, Conference of Independent African States, 1958. 66.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“Then, again, there is the United Nations, representing a further endeavour, after the League of Nations, to serve all mankind and help the world community to become a community of really free peoples and equal sovereignties, instead of consisting, in great part, as unfortunately it still does at present, of serfs, vassals and pawns of some big Powers. Thus shall the United Nations, in active devotion to its own Charter and principles and in heartening and fascinating parallelism with the evolution within national boundaries, help in the exclusion of domination and exploitation from the relations between the peoples of the world. Such, in part, is the vision before us or, as some might prefer to call it, the dream.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“These are all empty things unless and until they are matched with palpable realities and sober deeds, deeds and realities which are consonant with our days, their impact, their concepts, their relationships and the vigour of their dynamisms. Dominating the present scene is science, with its giant stature, its accomplishments, its dangers, and its promise. 62. Then there is the new posture of a growing number of States as dedicated to the welfare and the elevation of all their people and not as a monopoly for only a few. 63.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“Obviously, whenever peace is affected in any way, our first duty is to give it first aid. But this is not enough. We all know that peace must rest on solid foundations and must be devotedly and adequately served if it is to be maintained. This cannot be accomplished by the tight-rope-walking-over-the-inferno which some leaders of some Powers recklessly take for a hobby and a sport. Nor can peace be maintained by palliatives or tranquillizers or by the mere existence of solemn commitments. 61. It did not suffice, before, to have the Covenant of the League of Nations; and it does not suffice now to have the Charter of the United Nations.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“The United Arab Republic which, as Egypt and Syria, participated in the Bandung Conference in 1955, and which this year took part in the Accra Conference, wishes, equally as a member of the United Nations and of the world community of nations at large, to reaffirm the stand it has always taken on this supremely vital issue — for the immediate cessation, and against the continuance, of those tests. The United Arab Republic finds it, furthermore, natural to welcome the progress which has been made at the Geneva talks relating to the detection of nuclear and thermonuclear explosions. 59. Looking in another direction, we find that there has recently been commotion over the Middle East, and that there is alarm at present in relation to developments in the Far East. 60.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“We trust that it will happen without demur and that the sad story of which it is a counterpart will not happen again. 58. I do not propose to dwell for long on this topic. We have all convened in this hallowed place of assembly not in order to condemn or to condone each other's acts, but to serve, in humility and as well as we can, the purposes of constructiveness and of peace. And peace is riding rather rough seas nowadays. While we all talk about peace and try to do whatever we can in its behalf, tests of nuclear and thermo-nuclear weapons continue in spite of strong and repeated appeals by the peoples of the world and by their Governments for the cessation of those tests.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“Since 15 July last and until this late hour, the peoples of the United Nations and the world have been deeply concerned over the stationing of armed forces from the United Kingdom and the United States in Jordan and Lebanon. Serious questions were asked. Could the dispatch of those forces be justified in point of law? Has it been warranted by facts? Is it proper international practice? Is it not a reversion towards primitivism in human relations? Is it wise? For our part, we have constantly believed with virtually the whole world that, besides being an extremely disturbing event, that action has been as unjustified and unwarranted as it has been unwise, and that those forces should be promptly withdrawn. There are indications that this withdrawal will be affected soon.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“But, I submit, it is both timely and abounding in useful elements of information and material for careful thought although, mostly through no fault of the Secretary-General, it falls short of clarity and definiteness in relation to a few relevant matters of basic importance, particularly the time of the completion of the withdrawal of foreign armed forces from Lebanon and Jordan. 55. The burden which the Secretary-General and his aides have been carrying for several years has been as heavy and unwieldy as they have been patient, courageous and resourceful; and the least we should say in this regard is that they are as well deserving of our plaudits and our deep gratitude as they are of every co-operation that we have in the past or shall in the future extend to them. 57.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“54. I feel it to be my first duty, as the representative of one of the ten sponsors of resolution 1237 (ES-II) which the General Assembly adopted unanimously on 21 August 1958, to recall the highly commendable spirit of conciliation and sense of responsibility which marked the Assembly's deliberations and consultations and which led to that rewarding and encouraging result. 55. The Assembly has before it for its information and consideration the report [A/3934/Rev.1] which the Secretary-General presented to it on 30 September 1958 in pursuance of that resolution. In a world of imperfection, this report is not perfect.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“Nor did I underrate the immensity of the obstacles which often beset our road, or the great efforts made to overcome them. Indeed, never before has the world been harrowed and haunted by such problems as these. Never was it, more distinctly than it is now, in need of redoubled effort and of God's guidance and grace.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“It has been incisively and vividly demonstrated that the Secretariat has indeed come of age and ti.at it has boldly assumed in full and in real fact its responsibilities according to the Charter, as one of the organs of the United Nations; and we are happy to see beside us and with us in our daily toils and cares a solid, dynamic and daring Secretariat which is thoroughly permeated with the tireless energy and inexhaustible resourcefulness of its wise and far-sighted pilot, the Secretary-General. 114. When, in parts of my submission today, I made reference to failings and shortcomings in our tackling of the problems of the world and in our endeavour to serve the purposes of the United Nations, I did not, for a moment, forget the difficulty, the intricacy and the stubbornness of many of these problems.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“With this in our thought in Egypt, we felt sincere sympathy and sorrow for the people of Cyprus who, we were perfectly sure, were deeply hurt and saddened by that intolerable episode of recent history. 113. A most important and particularly welcome development which has been taking shape and receiving the plaudits of one and all is the steady and surefooted growth in stature and the increase in positiveness of the United Nations Secretariat, especially since the crisis of last year.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“We ardently hope that the question of Cyprus and the people of Cyprus will soon be blessed with better luck and a better fate than they have had so far. We entertain this fervent hope for the sake of the people of Cyprus and for the sake of freedom and world peace. 112. As an Egyptian, I feel the urge and have the right to say that, in nobody's wildest imagination could a free Cyprus be fancied as an arsenal and as a base for launching last year's murderous attack against Egypt. As confirmed by its Commander-in-Chief, that attack, I must register here, was planned and irrevocably decided upon while the Foreign Ministers of the United Kingdom and France were feigning to negotiate here in New York with the Foreign Minister of Egypt a peaceful solution of the Suez Canal question.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“But we do not see it anymore; it has already exploded and disintegrated into nothingness. Syria is there, peaceful and quiet, behaving as always as a good, loyal and devoted Member of the United Nations. And if anyone should say that the Syrians wish to throw away in any direction, or to the four winds, the independence which they have earned with their sweat and their blood, then that one is a foolish man's fool, as he fools nobody but himself. 110. How about using some restraint and a minimum of alarms? How about cooling off and thinking and talking of Syria, as well as of other countries and other matters, like reasonable people endowed with a real sense of responsibility? Perhaps it is high time that everyone did exactly this. 111.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“Syria, in preparing and providing for its own defence, has not done anything which it is not fully entitled to do; and it is not accountable to anyone for any of its actions in the exercise of any of its indisputable rights. 109. The huge clamour made about danger to the peace in the Middle East has by now rumbled down and screeched into nothing at all. That clamour began in perfect conformity to the usual pattern which bears the unmistakable mark of its own artificiality. Suddenly, and out of a clear sky, one false accusation after another was levelled at Syria; in quick succession one threat followed another, from various capitals, on the road to Damascus; and Syria was depicted as the irrepressible and irresponsible knight-errant of the Middle East, as the great danger to world peace. What a balloon full of emptiness!”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“All the arm-twisting, all the commotion and all the hullabaloo obviously have been reserved for such an occasion as Syria's taking a modest step or two to provide for its own defence. 107. And here I feel impelled to state and to remind the General Assembly that Syria is Egypt's ally, as well as Egypt's blood relation, and it is fully entitled to Egypt's help, as well as to help by the United Nations for the repelling of any aggression which might be launched against it. And I wish, in no equivocal terms, to leave no scope whatsoever for doubt that Egypt, for its part, will not tolerate that even a fingertip of Syria be hurt, that a hair of the head of Syria be ruffled, by any aggressor, but will immediately rise to a man and stand four-square with its sister State of Syria. 108.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“Continually, through the years which have followed the Second World War, arms in huge quantities have been and continue to be poured, with shameless persistence and frequency, into all countries and areas surrounding Syria, particularly into Israel which, for good measure and as a bonus and a token of appreciation of its aggressions, has been receiving gaudy gifts of goods and money amounting to more than its budget. But Syria, which had been denied even a semblance of adequate provision for its defence, and which had been rebuffed every time it wanted to acquire the necessary arms from certain countries, has been insulted, threatened, molested and looked upon by some as anybody’s whipping boy. Yet, of all this, of all the arms supplied to other countries during the last year, no noise, not a word, not a whisper.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“The Assembly might recall the following passage from the report submitted to the Security Council by the late Mediator on 12 July 1948, in which he stated: “It could not be ignored that unrestricted immigration into the Jewish area of Palestine might, over a period of years, give rise to a population pressure and to economic and political disturbances which would justify present Arab fears of ultimate Jewish expansion in the Near East. It can scarcely be ignored that Jewish immigration into the Jewish area of Palestine concerns not only the Jewish people and territory but also the neighbouring Arab world." [S/888, para. 26.] 106. Syria is still another harassed sister country in our area. Have you heard the shouts and the cries and seen the fireworks round and about the State of Syria?”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“Furthermore, while the lawful Arab inhabitants of Palestine have been driven away from their land and their homes and are living miserably as expellees from their own country, and as if this were not sufficient to disrupt the peace of the Middle East, the Prime Minister of Israel, not for the first time, stated only a few days ago that “the survival and peace of Israel will be safeguarded by one thing and one thing alone — large-scale immigration. For this security, Israel requires an addition of at least 2 million Jews in the coming period”. 105. How valid and how prophetic was the comment of the late Count Bernadotte on this question.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“And, taking the load from this refusal, and particularly — logic or no logic — from Israel's aggression last year against Egypt, the Prime Minister of Israel says that the Armistice Agreement with Egypt is dead. 103. In the same spirit of defiance, Israel has refused until now to implement the resolution adopted on 2 February 1957 [1125 (XI)] by virtually the unanimity of the General Assembly, which stipulated that the United Nations Emergency Force should be stationed on both sides of the armistice demarcation line. 104.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“Israel, which has called itself the child of the United Nations, barely recognizes the existence of the United Nations except, as we have seen much too often, to use the halls and the rostrums of this Organization to try to confuse the issues of the Palestine question which cannot be confused and to obscure the rights of the Arab people of Palestine which cannot be obscured, and, in and around these halls, to scheme and manoeuvre, with its cohorts, to do away with the, whole issue. 102. When we look at the armistice agreements concluded by Israel, the glaring fact appears that Israel signed them but has refused persistently to honour its own signature.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“No question, to my knowledge, has aroused so many and such deep emotions as has the question of that unfortunate land and its noble yet ill-fated Arab people. About no other question has as much been written or spoken. Yet it turns incessantly in a dizzy whirlpool; and no real progress has been made to rescue it from under the heap of fallacies and of lies in which it has shamelessly been thrown. 101.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“Just to mention one of the statements made: how well and how rightly the Foreign Minister of Ireland spoke, on 20 September last [682nd meeting], when he pointed out that the case of Algeria deeply disturbed the friends and admirers of the French nation; that the nature of the conflict was one that left a country with Ireland’s tradition no choice; that Ireland could not do otherwise than support self-determination for Algeria and urged the French Government, in the interest of the French people, in the interest of the French settlers, in the interest of the peace of mind of France’s friends, in the interest of world peace and for the glory of France, to declare its readiness to concede absolutely and unequivocally the right of self-determination to Algeria. 100. Then there is the tragedy of Palestine.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“Just come and see, if only a little of what is happening in the Middle East as well as the Near East. 98. Our first step could be Algeria, this Algeria whose people are doomed to more suffering and to more humiliation, while the French Parliament indulges in its endless and barren debate, while it topples one ministry after another, and while we are made for the millionth time to hear the crazy notion that, because some French lawyers in Paris have written an article into their country’s laws saying that Algeria is part of France, the people of Algeria must be treated as things and as serfs. 99. In this connexion, I wish to say that, though I am an Arab and a blood relation of the Algerian people, I cannot better or in clearer outline define the question of Algeria than have done several of our colleagues.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“Many actions in the area, or in relation to it, by outside Powers have been at complete variance with the standards of international behaviour which we have all agreed to and set together in the Charter. 97. The whole area is so covetously wanted by some Powers and some groupings of Powers from outside, as a ball and a pawn in the game of international politics. Gone are the days when people believed the statement of one big leader of our times that the establishment of spheres of influence and the domination of one country by another were to be no more. Gone are the days when people could believe the statement of another leader of our times that the world was about to witness the real establishment of the rule of law in international relations. The rule of law?”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“This, apparently, is but one of the many symptoms of the main trouble, the main disease — power hunger- which afflicts some big Powers whose attempts to secure their positions in the Middle East have succeeded — if this is success — in making of it, from Algeria to Palestine, to Syria, to Yemen, to Oman, and to other parts of it, the most worried, the most distraught and the most tortured area in the world at present. 95. Being a Middle-Easterner and an Arab, I might also be allowed, in my turn, to say a few words about the Middle East, and about what some call the Near East, in the hope that my voice and others from among the people of the area will be heard above the clamour and the shouting of some busybodies from outside. 96.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“Some outsiders are even considering and busily speaking about the Middle East as if it were their own enclosure, their own exclusive business; and they have, on occasion, by their attitudes and by their acts, made a most fantastic innovation in and a most unbridled departure from political and diplomatic practice by going around the Middle East, or what was once called the general area of the Middle East, peddling their policies, and trying to take a kind of poll or referendum, as if the Middle East were their country club or their electoral constituency. 94.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“The role of the various' media which can serve this purpose, the home, the school, the Press, the radio, television, the cinema, the theatre, is vast and deep and vital. 93. As you will have noted, everybody is busily speaking these days about the Middle East, as he is entitled to, and as indeed he should, in view of the current stirring events, problems and the manoeuvrings in, and in relation to, this area.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“This is definitely among the questions we all have to answer, and no amount of escapism can enable anyone to hide it or light-heartedly to explain it away. 91. An additional instance showing the tremendous importance of a solid and active mass of world opinion is our obvious need, all of us, for putting an end to another destructive feature of international life, namely, the scramble by some big Powers, in various ways and under various guises, for the control of countries and areas in the world which ought to be allowed scope for developing their freedoms, their economy and their social life. 92. But the promotion of an enlightened, robust, effective and sound public opinion throughout the world is clearly not the responsibility of Governments alone.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“To give only two illustrations of this: right here and now, and throughout this universe in which we live, such world opinion is vitally needed to help and to convince all the Governments concerned to stop this insane and suicidal race of arms and its corollary of nuclear and thermonuclear experiments which are playing havoc with the health and the sense of security of the world’s inhabitants, and with whatever vestiges there remain of the rule of law in international relations. 90. Indeed, the question has been repeatedly asked, and it is quite a valid question, as to whether, even mischievously supposing that a State has the right to destroy its own nationals, it has the right to release forces which it cannot control and which it cannot stop from harming seriously or, for that matter, harming at all, the nationals of other countries.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“This state of affairs shows with great emphasis the importance of a well-informed, wide-awake and most resolute public opinion throughout the world. This has been so clearly shown in connexion with the attack on Egypt last year, which would have rolled the history of human progress thousands of years backwards had it not been for the awakening and the rising of world public opinion and its ready rallying around the principles of the United Nations. We all vitally needed that yesterday, and we all as vitally do need it today and in the future for such and similar contingencies. 88. And these are by no means the only matters of great moment which make a robust, a conscious and a responsible public opinion of the world so infinitely essential. 89.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“Another extremely disturbing feature of present- day international relationships is the appalling imbalance and the crushing effects of the tremendous difference in strength between some Powers As compared to other Powers. This difference is creating a most ominous situation which basically affects the future, the freedom and the very existence of many of the nations of the world. 86. This alarming lack of equilibrium between the various Powers is the more accentuated and the more dangerous in view of the absence until today in international relations of the guarantees and sanctions which in national life assure respect for the law. Our law in the United Nations is, of course, mainly the Charter. But we all know too well how little the Charter is actually made effective by the guarantees and the sanctions stipulated in it. 87.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“Another phase of this fathomless tragedy is that it undermines in a most drastic way the economy and the prospects of social advancement of a great number of the countries of the world, especially those which are direly and most urgently in need of dedicating themselves and their resources to the improvement of the lot of their peoples. 84. I cannot think of any acts short of war Which could be more mischievous than the mischief and more tragic than the tragedy of this sombre nightmare of arms and arms supply. A way out of this mess has to be found; a road, other than this road of all-round suicide has to be trodden. 85.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“While doing this, they strain the nerves of all concerned, including their own people, and overburden the economy of all concerned, including their own people. 82. A tremendous surplus of arms is inevitably heaped and stored by these big producers, and is used mostly to influence and to rope in as many as can be secured of the non-arms-producing countries. If country “X” takes the arms and swallows the policies of the big Power proffering them, good and well, of course from the big Power’s point of view. If, on the other hand, country "X" is as impolite and as careless as to fail to accept those arms and to refuse to swallow those policies, then another scheme is unleashed; and the arms-supplying country switches its offer to the rivals or the enemies of country “X”, and opens a front of propaganda and of economic war against it. 83.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“I am at this moment and in the present context referring essentially to the high principles and ideals enunciated in the Charter. 81. Similarly to what has been taking place in the field of economic and technical assistance, the supplying or the withholding of arms has been used as a means of pressure of temptation by some big Powers which are recklessly and mischievously making of many other countries of the world a miserable dumping ground for their policies and for their inevitably obsolete arms. This tragedy of arms and of arms supply is in fact much too tragic for words. The big producers of arms are engaging in a feverish competition lest they be overtaken in strength and in the ability to destroy by those whom they look upon as their likely enemies.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“Economic and technical co-operation, which was meant by the Charter to be a means of hastening the development of the countries of the world and enhancing the purposes of goodwill and peace, has been distorted and deviated from by some big Powers to become an instrument for tempting or bringing pressure to bear on other countries, in order to impose upon them certain policies and certain commitments. Economic assistance has, in other words, been thrown out as a bait for some countries to bite at; and if they do not bite, then an attempt is made to spear them and get hold of them by force. If this in turn fails, then the planners go into a rage and level all sorts of accusations and recriminations against what they look upon as the poor fish. Reference is not made here particularly to the High Dam in Egypt.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“Moreover, many of the peoples of the world are still denied their natural right and right under the Charter to freedom and to self-determination. 79. Furthermore, partition and the morselling of countries has shattered the unity and dimmed the hopes of many a nation. Especially after the Second World War, the world has been plagued by an epidemic of partition, of which the most conspicuous victims are Palestine, Germany, Korea, Viet-Nam, not to speak of certain other present or prospective cases. 80.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“In this year of grace 1957, one feels, however, even more than in 1955 when at San Francisco we celebrated the tenth anniversary of the inception of the United Nations, the need to take stock of what has been happening in the world during the last few years, and to make some comparisons between the hopes of yesterday and the realities of today. 77. Our reaffirmation, as in the very preamble of the Charter, of our faith in human rights, in the dignity and the worth of the human person, and in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, is still far short of being matched by what is happening in many parts of the world. 78. In disregard of religion, of humanity and of the Charter, racial discrimination in several countries continues to be a most shameful and most disturbing fact of life.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“Egypt, with the other nations of the world, shares the growing, nay, the full, awareness of the sheer folly of war, and parallel to this of the immense and previously undreamt of possibilities through sane thinking and modern science for the welfare, happiness and honour of the human race. 75. Still another source of gratification to Egypt, as it is or should be to all other countries, is the awakening of the peoples of the world to a sound and active realization that the relationship between the nations of the world should be marked by real comradeship and invested with the dignity of humanity and freedom. 76.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“My Government, therefore, among other things, during the last few months has been consulting with several other Governments, as well as with the Secretary-General, on ways and means of ensuring proper representation of the shareholders, so that the matter of compensation to them can be promptly discussed and finally settled. 73. Meanwhile, the Suez Canal is rapidly emerging from the results of last year’s tripartite devastation and showing a serviceability and dynamism under its present administration consonant with modern times and the requirements of an ever expanding international navigation. 74.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“And the Canal is once more a link of good will and of mutual benefit to the nations of the world. 71. Parallel to this, and as all are admitting, cooperation between the Suez Canal Authority and the representatives of shipping and trade dealing with it has been at its best, and I wish, in this connexion, to state that the head of the Suez Canal Authority and some of his aides are about to visit various countries in order to get in still closer touch with these representatives. 72. The question of compensation to the shareholders of the nationalized Suez Canal Company has, of course, been constantly on the mind of the Government of Egypt and has received and is still receiving its utmost care.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“A most thorough and continuous study has been made with this in view, with the help of all the qualified and experienced technical knowledge required. The sum of €3,285,000 has already been set aside for the development of the Canal, with more funds to follow for the same purpose. 70. Furthermore, and as a result of the completion of the clearance of the Canal and the actual carrying out of the first stages of the development programme, it is expected that ships with a draught of up to 35 feet will soon be able to pass through the Canal, as was the case before the tripartite aggression. It will be recalled, in this connexion, that the Canal, in spite of sabotage by some big Powers, had functioned perfectly until aggression blocked it; and when the aggression ended, an end was rapidly put to the blocking of the Canal.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“67. The declaration, which is an internationally binding instrument, as solemnly stated in it, was registered as such with the Secretariat of the United Nations. Since this declaration was issued, the Government of Egypt has amply and repeatedly shown its resolve to honour it and to implement it fully. 68. Among the steps inspired by this resolve has been on the communication of 18 July 1957 from the Foreign Minister of Egypt to the Secretary-General of the United Nations [A/3576 and Add.1] enclosing a declaration accepting, on behalf of the Government of Egypt, the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice. 69. Another step taken for the same purpose of fully implementing the declaration has been the active and great care which the Suez Canal Authority has dedicated to the improvement of the Canal.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“This declaration, among other things, reaffirms the unaltered policy and firm purpose of the Government of Egypt to respect the terms and the spirit of the Constantinople Convention of 1888 and the rights and obligations arising therefrom; provides for a stable policy regarding Canal tolls; provides for adequate resources to meet the needs of development of the Canal; states that the Government of Egypt would welcome and encourage co-operation between the Suez Canal Authority and representatives of shipping and trade; provides for means of recourse in relation to complaints; provides for acceptance by Egypt of the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice regarding differences arising between the parties to the Constantinople Convention of 1888 in respect of the interpretation or the applicability of its provisions; provides for compensation of the shareholders of the nationalized Suez Canal Company.”
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“A good measure of success has been already achieved in this field, in spite of the economic war- or shall I stamp it with the right hallmark and call it "brink of war"? — with which several powerful Members of this Organization are facing Egypt. 66. The General Assembly will recall the declaration of the Government of Egypt on 24 April 1957 [A/3577], relating to the Suez Canal and the arrangements for its operation.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“In contrast to what took place last year, this time I bring good news from Egypt, some of which I ask leave to put before the Assembly, in as far as it relates to questions to be dealt with by it, or is or should be of particular interest to it. 64. Egypt has gone — at great sacrifice, I must admit — a long way in reconstructing Port Said and repairing other damage caused by the tripartite attack. Its efforts in this direction have included the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the Gaza Strip and the restoration of normal navigation through the Suez Canal. In all this, Egypt has had, especially in the initial stages, the extremely valuable help of the United Nations and its Secretariat. 65. A similar effort has been made by Egypt in bolstering its economy and adapting it to new requirements and new circumstances.”
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