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  1. “Many of us here present have lived through anxious hours in this very Assembly Hall during the emergency special sessions of the General Assembly, called at the beginning of November 1956 to consider the Suez and Hungarian crises. The problem of preserving world peace devolved finally on the Members of the General Assembly, owing to the clear inability of the Security Council, which under the Charter has the primary responsibility in the circumstances. The ultimate and overwhelming responsibility devolved upon us, the small nations of the world. 2. To the eleventh session has now fallen an inheritance of unparalleled importance — the mission of warding off the onset of a third world war.”

    1956-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 11 (1956)

  2. “I am confident that in this year of greater calm but higher tension in the affairs of the world we shall make the best possible use of the calm afforded to us and shall at the same time be impelled to our task by the tension that surrounds us.”

    1954-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 9 (1954)

  3. “Several representatives have referred to the sense of discouragement and frustration that accompanies the persistent reappearance of a number of items that have been described as the “hardy perennials.” My delegation particularly regrets that the high hopes of the Organization in carrying out the human rights provisions of the Charter and the efforts to secure the elimination of the problems arising from so-called racial differences should continue to be frustrated; yet it is perhaps the evidence of the Organization’s coming of age, as it moves into its tenth year, that it has not failed to persist in holding us all to the high promise of the Charter. 10.”

    1954-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 9 (1954)

  4. “My delegation has from the earliest discussions at San Francisco lamented the tendency in the Organization to minimize the contribution of international law to the development of international institutions. We hope to see in the second decade of the Organization a greater willingness to restore to international law, and to legal considerations generally, the stabilizing role they have historically enjoyed in international affairs. 9.”

    1954-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 9 (1954)

  5. “The Ethiopian delegation will accordingly press for the establishment of effective and substantial international economic instruments and agencies, not only for the expansion of technical assistance, but also for the financing and promotion of the basic economic development of the under-developed areas of the world. 7. My delegation remains convinced that there is the closest connexion between the effectiveness of collective security under the Charter and the climate of economic development throughout the world. The same boldness and willing assumption of great risks that crowned the Organization’s successful application of the principle of collective security must characterize its approach to the interrelated problems of technical assistance and economic development. 8.”

    1954-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 9 (1954)

  6. “In my own country, significant if limited contributions are being made, with the promise of additional limited programmes. It is, of course, increasingly evident that the full effect of technical assistance projects can be realized only through the establishment and strengthening of the necessary economic instruments and agencies for financing and securing the proposed developments. As the Ethiopian delegation had occasion to note in the general debate last year, a change in the general atmosphere and even a slight change in the rate of economic development in the under-developed countries not only would be of the greatest, psychological importance to the strengthening of the work of the United Nations, but would have an immediate and appreciable practical effect.”

    1954-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 9 (1954)

  7. “But quite as important is the hope that international consideration of the possible uses of this vast new source of power and energy, in close relation to the development of the power and energy requirements of the industrially under-developed regions of the world, may provide a stimulus to creative thinking and scientific research that could truly usher in a new era of international collaboration and economic development. 6. But, vast and promising as are the vistas opened by the constructive development of the peaceful use of atomic energy in the field of technical assistance and economic development, it is most important that the momentum of the present United Nations Technical Assistance Programme should be maintained.”

    1954-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 9 (1954)

  8. “The apparent failure of the meetings in London last spring was most disappointing. My Government is most anxious that effective pressure should be maintained upon the Disarmament Commission, so that it will be unrelenting in its efforts to lessen the frightful burden of armament and military preparation. 5. I therefore most cordially welcomed the substantial contribution made to the general debate yesterday [484th meeting] by the Soviet Union delegation, as well as the proposal of the United States Secretary of State for the international development of the peaceful uses of atomic energy and the addition of the resulting item to our agenda. Ethiopia hopes that effective steps forward in this field may lead to a relaxation of tension in the military field.”

    1954-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 9 (1954)

  9. “There are, of course, regional agreements in force in certain restricted areas of the world — the North Atlantic and European Defence Community is so vast as to fall outside this restriction — but present-day events show only too clearly that broader solutions are required and that regionalism, in the final analysis, does a disservice to the principle of collective security. My delegation is profoundly convinced that collective security can alone afford the answer to this problem and that it must be recognized as having, not regional, but universal validity. Otherwise, its deterrent as well as its defensive effect will be of manifestly insufficient force.” 4. My delegation must repeat the hope it has expressed in recent general debates; namely, that the appalling waste of increasing armaments may be checked.”

    1954-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 9 (1954)

  10. “The Secretary-General, in discussing the role of the United Nations in the introduction to his annual report [A/2663], most valuably expressed the concern of many delegations at the proliferation of regional arrangements outside the organizational framework of the United Nations but within its sphere of interest. On this point, the views of my Government, as expressed by His Imperial Majesty on the same occasion, are not without interest. Referring to the system of regional defence pacts, he stated: “For its part, at the Conference of San Francisco which drafted the Charter of the United Nations, Ethiopia was alone to point out the pitfalls of this solution.”

    1954-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 9 (1954)

  11. “The Ethiopian delegation was particularly pleased that His Majesty’s solemn reaffirmation of the contributions Ethiopia has made to the development of collective security was so widely appreciated. The Secretary-General, on that occasion, referred to the recent contribution of my country to United Nations policy. In this connexion, it is interesting to note that the Emperor, speaking four months ago on another occasion in New York observed : “It is certain that the basic support of the principle of collective security comes less from the larger States than from the small States, which have more to , gain and more to lose by failure in its application. In this respect, it is significant that the smaller States associated in the United Nations efforts in Korea outnumbered the larger States.” 3.”

    1954-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 9 (1954)

  12. “The Ethiopian delegation joins with so many others in extending congratulations to the President on his election. We feel that the Assembly is most fortunate in entering upon its tenth year of work under the guidance of so distinguished a representative of a nation so widely admired for its historic contributions of scholarship, of industry and of tenacity to the great international tasks which are now the responsibility of the United Nations. 2. During the year since my delegation last contributed to the general debate [442nd meeting], my august sovereign, His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie, on 1 June 1954 officially visited the Headquarters of the United Nations and had occasion to speak here.”

    1954-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 9 (1954)

  13. “But while we applaud, we must caution the General Assembly not to put the cart before the horse. Political animosities which cause nations to arm will not pass away until a measure of economic development is achieved. Should we not, therefore, proceed boldly to create the conditions under which political problems can be solved, to start the motion that will facilitate disarmament? We believe that the obvious obstacles in the path of such programmes can be surmounted with a little boldness. 104. There is still time to do this, but we must get on with it before we find that our efforts have been “too little and too late”.”

    1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)

  14. “Ethiopia submits that the United Nations should turn collectively to the economic problem of developing natural resources where development has lagged. 102. The General Assembly has before it three schemes for promoting economic development. I refer to the proposal for establishing a special fund for grants-in-aid and low-interest long-term loans, the proposal for the establishment of an international finance corporation, and the proposal to expand the present programme of technical assistance. This is not the time to discuss these proposals in detail. In principle, however, my delegation urges that these schemes should be supported — more, they should be the dominating passion of this eighth session. 103. Ethiopia applauds the proposal that sayings from disarmament should be devoted to economic development.”

    1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)

  15. “Ethiopia is proud of the part its Emperor, His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, has played in the development of this doctrine. Although our country was once a victim of the failure of this doctrine, this time we_ contributed both treasure and troops to aid in stopping an aggressive war. 101. The world has learned a great deal about the principle of collective security since the end of the First World War, but our progress is still too limited. It is high time that we advanced, and I believe that the most promising fields in which the doctrine may be extended and made more effective are that of technical co-operation and that which I have already mentioned, namely, the economic development of under-developed areas. We have given too little attention to such programmes. We have been too preoccupied with political problems.”

    1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)

  16. “And not all the pledges in the world to the doctrine of collective security, even the splendid precedent of Korea, will be sufficient to quiet such unrest. But if through United Nations effort — through collective action, if you please — the natural resources of the now under-developed countries can be put into production and the people aided in freeing themselves from the fear of want, then collective security in the political field will become an effective instrument for the maintenance of peace. 100. Here I must reiterate my country's devotion to the principle of collective security. We note with heartfelt satisfaction the results of the negotiations at Panmunjom. We rejoice to see that, for the first time in history, collective security has been tested and proved effective.”

    1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)

  17. “We believe that these matters are thoroughly tied up with the problem of collective security, for, unless economic development is brought to the countries with low standards of living, there can be no collective security in the political field. Indeed, we think that economic, development and the resultant improvement of the standard of living of peoples now on subsistence levels are the conditions necessary to peace, the sine qua non of peace through collective action. 99. Not all wars are traceable to personal ambition for power or to a national desire to spread an ideology. Much of the unrest today, particularly in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, is economic in origin. I think no one will deny this.”

    1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)

  18. “The responsibility and ultimate aim of all administration in all such territories must be to lead the people thereof to self-rule. The guides to be followed in applying this principle are, first, the wishes of the majority of the inhabitants, secondly, the economic conditions of the country and the possibility of independent existence, and, thirdly, the maintenance of international peace and security. 98. Last, but by all odds the most important, my delegation believes that this eighth session should give increased support to the technical assistance programme and to schemes for the economic development of the under-developed countries.”

    1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)

  19. “Ethiopia hopes that the General Assembly’s consideration of that report will give new impetus to the work of the Commission so that a method of disarmament will be agreed upon. 96. Secondly, my Government earnestly hopes that problems arising from so-called racial differences will be speedily solved. Ethiopia believes in the equality of all human races. We refuse to believe that, half way through the twentieth century, there is no basis upon which people of different races can live together amicably. 97. Thirdly, my delegation believes that it is essential to world peace that this eighth session of the General Assembly should continue on the road of promoting independence for people of territories now under foreign rule.”

    1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)

  20. “For this reason I desire at this time to point out the matters which Ethiopia believes are of paramount importance and therefore deserve our most earnest efforts. 95. In the first place, my delegation hopes that the present impasse with respect to disarmament will be resolved. The appalling waste, the dismal direction given to science and invention, and the tension created by the process of arming, must be eliminated in order to avoid irretrievable losses in the progress thus far made by civilization. We note with satisfaction that the Disarmament Commission, in its more recent report [DC/32], soon to be discussed here, has expressed the hope that it can look forward to continuing its work in an atmosphere made more propitious by recent international events.”

    1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)

  21. “94. My Government believes that since the last session of the General Assembly much progress has been made towards improving the world situation. At this eighth session we find grounds for optimism. We believe, too, that in spite of the controversy which still persists in many fields, the peoples of the world can take heart and look forward to achieving real peace through the mechanism of the United Nations. But, while Ethiopia believes that there are grounds for optimism, we see clearly that there are no grounds for complacency. On the contrary, we believe that efforts in certain fields must be redoubled before it is too late. The orientation of this eighth session, the direction it takes, the matters to which major attention and the will to succeed are applied will, we believe, be decisive for the state of our world for some time.”

    1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)