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“Last year's report of the Secretary-General drew a picture no less sombre than before. Disturbing signs have indeed darkened the picture. The population explosion of the developing countries, more rapid than the growth of their national income, the policy of reducing financial assistance adopted by some industrialized countries in order to overcome their balance-of-payments difficulties, the hardening of the terms on which international organizations are prepared to give credit for poorly defined national objectives — all these disturbing signs could, if they were more thoroughly studied, be interpreted as pointers towards a transition to an era of universal relations with the third world. 32. I should like to put forward an objective testimony which cannot but throw light on the crisis of the United Nations Development Decade. Mr.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“The General Assembly, by its resolutions of 19 December 1961 [1710 (XVI) and 1711 (XVI)], laid down two essential objectives, that the industrialized countries were to devote a minimum of 1 per cent of their national income to the assistance of the developing countries; and that the latter were to raise the annual growth rate of their gross national income to 5 per cent in 1970, the final year of the Decade. The six years that have passed bring us halfway towards instituting an international development policy. Looking back, I wonder whether we can see the way to a better future. 31. No one says that the rich countries, on the one hand, and the third world, on the other, should fight a lone fight, for the success of the crusade is a common task; but at this stage of the journey there are disquieting signs that the crusaders are flagging.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“As President Leopold Senghor said, Bandung meant a world-wide awareness of the dignity of man and the end of the inferiority complex of the peoples of the third world, who are daily exerting a greater influence on world affairs and, more than ever before, have come to this twenty-first session bringing the world's faith in a better future. 30. Side by side with these political concerns, which have for too long held back the solution of the problem of under-development, the United Nations is rightly concerned with the serious consequences of the growing disparity in living standards and it has pledged the responsibility of the international community by instituting the United Nations Development Decade.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“Whether those problems result from lack of people to fill responsible posts, or from the inability of those responsible to adapt themselves to the objectives of reforms and programmes awaiting the stimulus of technology and capital, or whether those problems have been inherited from colonialism, the third world, breaking with its dependence on the industrialized countries, wants to make its voice heard among the nations and to present its claims. 29. The third world affirmed its personality in 1955 at the Bandung Conference, of which the final communique added the principle of encouraging mutual interests and co-operation to the great principles of peaceful coexistence.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“Between the western world and the socialist countries there has grown up an intermediate world, the third world, whose collective conscience involves all the nations ranged against a common enemy —underdevelopment — in solidarity with one another and in the ambition to emerge from their under-developed state by resolving their social, economic and political problems, which are more or less the same for them all.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“For what is at stake is the maintenance of peace and the very existence of the human race. The creditor countries could not lose from co-operation with the poor countries which, paradoxically, have been in the past and are today the source of their wealth. The imminent threat of the failure and collapse of the international community in the political, social and economic fields must stimulate the rich countries to make a practical effort and to avert an outcome dangerous to all. 28.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“My delegation wishes to say that it considers the Judgment of the International Court of Justice ^s a distortion of law, a denial of justice, an insult to the international conscience and to mankind. It declares that the people and Government of Haiti firmly support all measures taken by the United Nations to abolish apartheid, for the United Nations, if it is to survive, must show itself capable of solving the problems placed before it. 27. The grave crises which are pushing mankind to the brink of despair are closely bound up with the division of the world into rich and poor countries and with the equally disquieting gulf between the communist bloc and the free world. Why then not try our luck at co-operation, why not regard it as a kind of gamble?”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“The Court thus seems to have written an epilogue, at least on the legal level, to one of the longest trials in the history of international courts, by handing down a judgement that is not only controversial, but is interpreted as indirect approval of racism in the world; and it has done this in disregard — to quote Article 38 of its Statute — of "international conventions, whether general or particular, establishing rules expressly recognized by the contesting States", in disregard of "international custom, as evidence of a general practice accepted as law" and in disregard of "the general principles of law recognized by civilized nations". 26.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“The International Court of Justice, by dismissing the case of Ethiopia and Liberia, allowing them no right or legal interest in the matter, has merely given its blessing to the Pretoria Government and sanctioned, more than ever before, the arrogant exploitation of man by man, of non-whites by whites; and that Government is only too happy to go on drawing considerable profit from an enslaved labour force and a land rich in gold, diamond and copper mines and to strengthen its economic ties with certain Powers. 25.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“Pretoria, when accused of instituting its policy of apartheid, of illegally incorporating South West Africa into its territory and of adopting a policy of militarization, replies with the notorious recommendations of the Odendaal Committee on the setting up of so-called "national homelands", the unconfessed object of which is to annex South West Africa to South Africa. 24.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“The example of the peoples which have chosen self-determination and the evils engendered by the Nazi racism during the Second World War bear eloquent testimony to this. 22. After the striking statements we have heard on apartheid and the repeated statements of the permanent delegation of Haiti, both in plenary meeting and in the Ad Hoc Committee for South West Africa — dealing with a question which is now twenty years old, for it goes back to the inception of the United Nations — my delegation notes that, despite seventy-three resolutions, the Government of South Africa, quite happy with verbal sanctions, is still opposing all United Nations control over the Territory of South West Africa, on the pretext that its obligations as a Mandatory Power ceased with the dissolution of the League of Nations. 23.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“Perhaps the repetition of these thoughts, stressing as they do the ugliness of that inhuman policy, will more forcefully bring out the world's disapproval and inspire a healthier application of law and justice. 20. The Haitian nation, loving freedom as it does, cannot but feel the stigma of subjugation inflicted by apartheid on its unhappy brothers in South West Africa. 21. It is to be feared — to repeat an ominous prediction — that, as the passage of time leaves no other choice possible, the people of South West Africa, exploited, scorned, dominated, deceived, strained beyond limit, and in despair, may react by any means open to them and may unleash a conflict to shake the whole world and threaten peace to its very foundations.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“Mr. Kennedy said that apartheid was one of the evils prevailing in the world, along with racial discrimination in New York, famine in India and the imprisonment of intellectuals in the Soviet Union. Those were different evils, but they were all equally the work of man. They reflected the imperfection of human justice, the inadequacy of human compassion, the lack of feeling for the sufferings of our fellow men. They showed the limits of our ability to use human knowledge for the welfare of our fellow men. Only a narrow-minded man could remain attached to the gloomy and disastrous superstition that his world was bounded by the nearest hill and the banks of some nearby river, that the human community was confined to those who belonged to his town and shared his views and the colour of his skin. 19.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“Let peace prevail, instead of the destruction of mankind, and let the nations, under the Charter, have friendly relations with one another, based on respect for the principle of equality of rights of peoples and the principle of self-determination." 18. Another threat to world peace is the problem of apartheid in South West Africa, a problem now further complicating the situation in Southern Rhodesia. In touching on the question of South West Africa, I should like to repeat what was said by United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy, brother of the late President John F. Kennedy, to the students at the University of Cape Town, in the heartland of apartheid, as recalled by a high dignitary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Dahomey at the United Nations Human Rights Seminar on Apartheid, held at Brasilia from 23 August to 4 September 1966.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“I wonder whether the Secretary-General, in whom mankind places its trust and hope, believes that the Viet-Namese conflict can be brought to an honourable solution and whether he can go beyond his mandate and effectively help us to preserve peace. 17. As I consider Viet-Nam, I would like to repeat here the profound words of President Duvalier: "The negro Republic of Haiti, faithful to its great historic traditions, appeals, like the Vicar of Rome, for peace, understanding and brotherly love among men. The Republic of Haiti is deeply convinced that the leader of the free world, which is not trying to subjugate any people or race in the world, will take note of the thought freely expressed by the first negro republic in the world.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“The United Nations, whose authority and universality transcend communities, is tirelessly exploring every road towards a solution of the conflict, in the name of international peace and security; but it is in danger — and its prestige is suffering thereby — of becoming an instrument of the struggle among rival blocs, despite its constant effort to narrow the gulf between the communist and the non-communist nations and between the rich and the poor nations. 16. The Secretary-General has not spared his efforts at mediation. Encouraging in every great capital of the world the mutual understanding for which Pope Paul VI called in this very hall (1347th meeting), U Thant has nevertheless suffered the disappointment of seeing the attitudes of the adversaries harden.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“The Viet-Nam war revives memories of the Polish Corridor and makes it possible for us to imagine the terrible scourge and appalling sufferings which a general war would entail. Its outcome, at a time when atomic weapons have reached their stage of perfection, would be the end of our civilization. 14. This problem, acute though it is, could nevertheless look less discouraging for communities more inclined towards constructive enterprises than towards destruction, if the antagonists would start on the path of conciliation and would bring themselves in line with the purposes and principles of the United Nations. Unhappily, efforts at mediation have so far been in vain. 15.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“Who does not remember the consternation felt in every corner of the world at the news, disseminated by every television and radio network, and first by the international press agencies, of the revival of armed conflict in the Far East? 11. Is there anyone who does not realize that the world has become smaller, as the means of communication surpass the speed of sound, and that the slightest tremor anywhere in the world can bring down the whole structure? 12. Viet-Nam, the word on everyone's lips, is and will continue to be but the expression of the general anxiety; it means the threat of a war that the Governments and the international community can hope only to keep from reaching the scale of a world conflagration. 13.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“When the play is over and each of us stands before the judgement seat of future generations, shall all of us have the satisfaction of knowing we have played our part well, will our consciences be fully satisfied? For we shall stand shoulder to shoulder when we stand before the judgement seat of history. 9. But the three super-Powers, while maintaining and enlarging their spheres of influence, have never stopped keeping the cold war alive and promoting the balance of terror, thereby making for a new international order which could soon prove fatal to the world. The relations among the antagonists have reached the point where, far from adapting themselves to the conditions of a rapidly changing world, they are dangerously confronting one another. I refer to the conflict in Viet-Nam. 10.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“The other States, which nevertheless share responsibility for the future of our communities, particularly for that of the "third world" are reduced to the role of extras in the "theatre in the round", where the insensate desires of the world's masters makes them simultaneously spectators and potential actors in the present crisis situation. 8. Just as in the ancient trilogy events converge to ards the moral operation of fate, bringing the action to a tragic denouement, despite the clearsightedness and diversity of the characters, so too do the States represented in this forum find that more noble national choices are perforce suppressed, as they knock upon doors that are always closed.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“Communist China has suddenly emerged as a giant, upsetting, with its theory of violent revolution, the fragile and laboriously constructed thesis of peaceful coexistence. The race for supremacy makes it difficult, even dangerous, to divide the world into zones of influence, for such division causes exasperation to the opposing sides and the last-comer on the scene further complicates the confrontation of the two existing adversaries. Despite the progress of international organizations, organizations certainly equipped to facilitate negotiation, the threat of a conflict weighs heavily upon the whole of mankind.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“"I am still convinced that U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations, will continue to personify this moral guarantee and the unreserved trust of the international community, a trust shared by my Government and supported by the traditions of the Haitian Nation." 5. The Government and people of Haiti offer their best wishes for prosperity and success to our brother people of Guyana, who have just attained political independence and been admitted to membership in the United Nations. 6. The political realities of the world today derive from the desire for domination and from the power politics of the three super-Powers which, over all geographical frontiers, are casting shadows that, at the very least, constitute a disquieting threat to peace. 7.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“"His rare qualities as an experienced mediator and champion of peace have inspired in Members of the Organization an indispensable spirit of understanding and, going beyond the letter of the Charter, have strengthened the principle of balance among the communities of today's troubled world. "The departure of U Thant would bring about the collapse of this great institution; its result, I fear, would be that the United Nations would suffer the same fate as the former League of Nations. "All human communities have an interest in the maintenance of the United Nations as a world-wide high court. It is the only authority which, because of its universality, can overcome the present problems of peoples and races wooed by opposing ideologies.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“In order to underscore the imminent threat, while stressing also the great value of the work done by the Secretary-General and of his initiatives in the cause of mediation, I should like here to repeat the words of Haiti’s Head of State, Dr. Frangois Duvalier, on the occasion of U Thant's decision not to seek a further term of office: "On behalf of the Haitian people and on my own behalf I wish to associate myself with the dismay caused in governmental and international circles by U Thant's decision not to serve for another term as Secretary-General of the United Nations.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“I should be remiss, however, if, in this context, I were to fail to pay a tribute to the great skill of the President of the twentieth session of the General Assembly, Mr. Amintore Fanfani, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Italy: for his departure represents no fall of an idol; the example he set, Mr. President, cannot but help you in your task. 3. Secretary-General U Thant, our practised mentor, has, as always, carried on a living tradition and not spared himself in instilling, on every issue, the spirit of co-operation and of peace so indispensable for human progress. He continues to enjoy the confidence of the peoples of the world, at a time when we are on the threshold of a world-wide failure which could degenerate into a world-wide conflagration. 4.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“1. Mr. President, your almost unanimous election to the presidency of the present session of the United Nations General Assembly — a truly rare occurrence in the history of our Organization — has called forth a well- deserved chorus of praise for you from the delegations present here. At the risk of further trying your modesty as u well-known humanist, I should like to associate the people and Government of Haiti, as well as myself, with these congratulations. Our felicitations go to a man whose diplomatic talents, moderation and capacity for conciliation have frequently transcended the debates and raised them above partisan interests to that universality which is the ultimate purpose of the United Nations. 2.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“142. The Republic of Haiti cannot fail to recognize the need to amend the statute which gave birth to the Organization and to adapt it to the new requirements of the atomic civilization and to the wishes of the peoples, who aspire to greater prosperity, justice and freedom. 143. Finally, I should like, as the representative of a country where 95 per cent of the population is Catholic, to welcome the imminent visit to the United Nations of the Vicar of Christ, His Holiness Pope Paul the Sixth, as the herald of a new era in which the supremacy of the spirit, which alone is capable of restoring mankind to the path of his true destiny, will be increasingly proclaimed.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“141. Once more, as the head of my country's delegation, I am proud to proclaim the fullest adherence of the nation of Haiti to the ideas, purposes and principles so eloquently expressed in the Charter, the nation of Haiti, which after paying tribute with its blood to the cause of independence of the thirteen British colonies of America, dared, as a small negro State whose newly-won independence was precarious because it was disputed, to support by force of arms the cause of independence of the Spanish colonies, the fantastic dream cherished by Miranda and miraculously realized by Simón Bolívar, the Liberator, with the disinterested assistance of Dessalines and Pétion, the immortal fathers of my country; the nation of Haiti, which has never hesitated to make its contribution to the cause of international peace and security; the nation of Haiti, which believes with all its heart in the future of the World organization, without which the dark shadows of force and egoism will soon cover the future of mankind.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“It is now twenty years ago that the representatives of the peoples of the United Nations, meeting in the historic city of San Francisco, declared in the preamble to the Charter: "WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and ; "to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and "to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, "AND FOR THESE ENDS "to practise tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours, and "to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and "to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and "to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples".”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“The economic situation in Haiti will become tragic if all the appeals to international solidarity remain unheeded, and it will fully justify the bitter statement of our distinguished President for life, Mr. Francois Duvalier, in one of his moving messages to his people: "Do we defy all hopes?" 140.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“In the study which the Inter-American Committee of the Alliance for Progress carried out, during the first week of August 1965, on the internal effort and the external financing required for the development of Haiti, the secretariat found it necessary to emphasize the desperate situation in Haiti and the paucity of the efforts so far made by the international community to help solve the problem. The net disbursement of loans granted by financial institutions is 9.32 dollars per inhabitant of Latin America since the establishment of the Alliance for Progress. The net disbursements for Haiti are insignificant, less than one dollar per inhabitant for the same period, or the lowest figure per inhabitant for the whole hemisphere. 139.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“In July 1963 a special fund for the public debt was established, under the administration of the National Bank of the Republic of Haiti and financed by various coffee and sugar receipts and by certain customs duties. Through this fund for the public debt the country is able to settle satisfactorily all its debts to international loan organizations or foreign private firms. The Haitian economy therefore remains in the unfortunate position of being dependent on foreign markets, a position brought about by the policy of certain international financing organizations. 138.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“Despite the complex interplay of recession factors, the Government of the Republic of Haiti has made strenuous efforts to improve the process of economic planning which was started in 1962. It has streamlined the servicing of the public debt, which now operates in a normal manner; it has taken vigorous action to stimulate tourism again by building an international airport for jet aircraft at Port-au-Prince and by establishing several tourist offices in the United States and Canada. The scarcity of available resources has not prevented investment in the agricultural, infra-structural and social sectors; although relatively modest, these investments nevertheless signal a resumption of economic activity by starting up infra-structural projects. 137.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“Net receipts from tourism, which in 1961 reached $7.5 million, fell in 1962 to $4.6 million, and since then they have fallen still further, and even reached negative levels in 1963 and 1964. Inevitably, the result has been a continual reduction in reserves. According to expert estimates, the deficit on current account for 1964-1965 may amount to $3 million. Drawings under stand-by agreements signed with the International Monetary Fund supplement government credits below the level of $3 million, an insignificant sum in relation to the volume of external trade. Only the austere fiscal and monetary policy of the Government of Mr. François Duvalier has made it possible to lessen the expected effect of external payments on reserves. 136.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“When the Inter-American Committee of the Alliance for Progress last met to discuss Haiti, at the session from 2 to 6 August 1965, it was admitted that Haiti was the only country which had not benefited from the Alliance for Progress at all. 134. Between the Charter of Punta del Este of August 1961 and September 1965, Haiti received nothing, not even a single dollar in per capita aid, whereas all the other countries on the American continent benefited greatly from such aid, whether in grants or in loans. We rejoice with them if they are satisfied. Together, the internal and external factors of recession in our economy have had a deplorable effect on the balance of payments, which is still very precarious. 135.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“It is to this psychosis, aimed at toppling a Government which is firmly anchored in the hearts and minds of the peasant masses and the middle classes, that we must attribute the lack of interest shown towards my country by international or inter-American financing organizations, except for the International Monetary Fund and the Inter-American Development Bank which, in 1961, granted Haiti a loan of $3.5 million for agricultural development, and has just granted another of more than $2 million for studies on the supply and distribution of drinking water in the capital and its surroundings. 133. It should be emphasized that, of all the countries of the Western hemisphere, the Republic of Haiti is the one which has received the least per capita international aid.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“The heaviest blow dealt to the Haitian economy by propaganda conducted from abroad was the steep fall, in 1963 and 1964, in tourist earnings which contributed substantially to the Haitian economy, and the depletion, not to say total disappearance, of private capital, whether domestic or foreign, which was frightened off by this unhealthy propaganda, thereby reducing still further the amount of money in circulation. 132.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“The agricultural losses and the reduction in industrial activity have had a disastrous effect on the level of the State income and expenditures. To these internal factors of recession in the Haitian economy must be added other external factors, in particular, the political conspiracies hatched abroad by agitators in the pay of international communism, or former political leaders driven out of power by the angry people. 130. The repeated invasions of Haitian territory, sustained from outside by this corrosive propaganda, which has been rightly characterized by numerous jurists and eminent statesmen as indirect aggression, have forced the Government, in order to safeguard the integrity of its national territory, to divert available labour and capital from production. 131.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“In order to meet his critical and painful situation, as the few reserves available had quickly been exhausted in the south, the south-east, the south-west and the north-west of the country, the President for life of the Republic of Haiti officially requested, through the organization responsible for the country's food — the Department of Public Health and Population — an urgent plan from international organizations and the United States Government for the continuation of assistance to the stricken people. 129. The industrial sector, which already forms only a small part of the economy and which fifteen years ago represented only 11 per cent of the gross national product, has felt the backlash of the agricultural recession and has not been able to maintain itself at that level.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“The disappearance of plantain from the list of export commodities since 1957, the fall in the price of sisal since June 1964, and the downward trend in sugar and, cocoa prices on the world market, have thrown the whole weight of our economy entirely on coffee, a principal export commodity which is subject to all the risks of price fluctuation. The economy of Haiti is feeling and will long feel the disastrous effects of two devastating hurricanes — hurricane Flora and hurricane Cleo — struck Haiti within a period of less than nine months, affecting live-stock and all crops, including young plantations, for two consecutive fiscal years. They were followed by a long and severe drought which ruined the efforts and hopes of our brave and courageous peasants. Then famine took a hand.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“One of the principal internal factors of recession is population growth, with an annual rate of 3 per cent, while the projected annual rate of growth of the gross national product is 2.5 per cent, but has remained well below that level. This has led to a basic imbalance between the soaring population and the development of resources. 128. In an already small country, the population explosion leads inevitably to the fragmentation of cultivable land and to the proliferation of underproductive or non-productive minifundia. Since 1962, the most significant economic indicator, the level of exports, has shown a marked decline.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“Francois Duvalier, strengthened by the almost unanimous support of the nation, are carrying on a struggle — so far unsuccessful — against the only real enemies, of the Haitian people: disease, ignorance and poverty. 126. It was to condemn this state of affairs that the Haitian Chief of State, in one of his messages to the people, declared: "In a country where want, poverty, illiteracy, hunger and slums, are rife, there is no place for peace, not even the peace of the grave." Indeed, despite the tremendous efforts made by the Government of the Republic, there is economic stagnation throughout the country. It is growing worse every day following the disturbing signs of recession in the Haitian economy, a recession which is attributable to internal as well as external causes. 127.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“My country is caught in a veritable economic tragedy, and is struggling in the midst of a vicious circle: poverty and deprivation engender ignorance, and in addition there is the tragic inability to break the circle by national resources alone. Our appeals to international co-operation, to the solidarity of peoples, and to the Alliance for Progress, which was set up to further economic and social welfare, have found little or no response. Thus, abandoned to its own resources, and in the midst of indifference bordering on hostility to arguments which have been constantly repeated, the first black Republic on the American continent and its leader, the distinguished Dr.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“With regard to the Third World and its requirements the ever-widening gap between the affluent Powers and the deprived countries, and the need for international co-operation to bring new vigour to impoverished economies, I should like to refer to the situation in my country, which is similar to that of other unfortunate countries of the Third World which are seeking the general welfare of their people and which live under the threat of that macabre trio-hunger, ignorance and disease. 125. Haiti is among the most deprived countries of the Western hemisphere, with a very high population density per square kilometre and one of the lowest per capita incomes in. the world.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“I should also like to mention, as an encouraging sign of the future of mankind under the auspices of our Organization, the cease-fire obtained through the intervention of the United Nations and the intelligent endeavours of the Secretary-General, U Thant, in the dispute between two sister nations, India and Pakistan, both Members of the United Nations and both called upon to promote the concept of the peaceful settlement of disputes and the procedures of conciliation and arbitration. 124.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“The Haitian Government can only deplore the fact that political expediency and a spirit of prudence do not favour the admission to the United Nations of a certain great Tower which, in recent times, has distinguished itself more by its aggressive actions find its obvious desire to change the form of institutions which have been freely adopted by other nations, institutions which are part of their moral and cultural patrimony and which are the guarantee of their survival and evolution. 123.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“The Chief Executive of the American nation, while proclaiming the determination of the United States not to yield to totalitarian aggression, is firmly resolved to sit at the negotiating table with any competent spokesman. 121. Thirdly, and lastly, the progress made in decolonization, thanks to which three nations have attained political independence without conflict and have just been admitted to membership of the United Nations. The Haitian delegation interprets this important event as a sign presaging the complete liberation of Africa and the early accession to the ranks of sovereign States of the last remaining territories of the martyred continent which still have the status of colonies. 122.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“Goldberg, the distinguished head of the United States Permanent Mission to the United Nations, who, in the course of his statement in the general debate at the present session of the Assembly, spoke in the following terms: "The United States is ready to transfer 60,000 kilogrammes of weapons grade U 235 to non-weapon uses if the Soviet Union would be willing to transfer 40,000 kilogrammes. If the USSR accepts this proposal, each of us would destroy nuclear weapons of our own choice so as to make available for peaceful purposes such amount if fissionable material." [A/PV.1334, para. 75.] 120. Secondly, the conciliatory attitude of the United States Government with regard to the question of South-East Asia which has been made known in many public statements by the President of the United States of America, Mr. Lyndon B. Johnson.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“Progress seems to generate misery and poverty in the Third World, whose situation appears to be hopeless. 118. The Haitian delegation, without questioning the relevance of the views I have just quoted, has nevertheless noted in the present international circumstances facts which lead it to think that, despite the gropings and retreats, which have been constant features of mankind's history, men will not, to paraphrase the words of the poet, refuse to unite with other men in order to realize their hopes. 119. Among the signs which presage better times for our suffering mankind, I should like to mention: first, the generous and constructive proposal put forward by the United States Government concerning the control and limitation of nuclear weapons. Was it not in fact Mr. Arthur J.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“In support of this pessimistic view they readily adduce: first, the power politics pursued by two great States in disregard of the standards, purposes and principles of the United Nations, which they invoke only when their own personal interests are at stake; secondly, the powerlessness of the United Nations to impose its will on even secondary Powers in fundamental matters concerning the noble aims of the Organization; thirdly, the disparity between the material and moral progress of mankind which makes hope illogical for man, like the sorcerer's apprentice, seems to have set in motion forces which have overtaken him and which, sooner or later, will end by crushing him; fourthly, the inability of the United Nations at the present time to achieve its goal of universality; fifthly, and lastly, the continued widening of the gap which separates the industrial Powers from the under-developed nations.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)