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first: 1980-09-24
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“In order to attain these fundamental goals as well as to deal with the multiplicity of contending interests inherent in them, the General Assembly has called for the convening of an international peace conference on the Middle Bast under the auspices of the United Nations. Indonesia's support for the peace conference is based on the assumption that such a conference would launch a comprehensive negotiating process and provide a forum in which all the parties concerned would participate on an equal footing, including the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the sole and legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Encouraged by the almost unquestioning support extended to it by its friends and protectors, Israel has habitually flouted the cardinal principles and rulings of our Organization. As events over the past years show, Israel persists in its efforts to impose by force of arms its own aggressive and expansionist designs on the region, in complete disregard of world censure. It is the unwavering conviction of my Government that the three core issues of the conflict cannot under any circumstances be sidetrack. They are the right of self-determination for the Palestinian people and its right to sovereign and independent statehood in Palestine, Israel's withdrawal from all Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem, and the need for the States in the region to live in peace within secure borders.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Any lingering hopes for a peaceful, evolutionary end to apartheid were dashed by the statement of Prime Minister Botha last month in which he categorically rejected the basic and just demands of the oppressed majority while at the same time demonstrating an arrogant disregard for the legitimate concerns of the international community. But then we knew all along that apartheid cannot be reformed or improved by incremental measures. It must be dismantled in its entirety. In its place, a non-racial, democratic society biased on majority rule should be established as a guarantee *or lasting peace. The Arab-Israel conflict has also been a major preoccupation of the United Nations for most of the 40 years of its existence.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Indeed, the state of emergency - or, more precisely, martial law - has been used by Pretoria as a pretext for its security forces to perpetrate indiscriminate killings and to drag innocent men, women and children from their hones into arbitrary and indefinite detention. Their plight is of serious concern to us, as is the continued incarceration of Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners, who personify the courageous struggle of black South Africa under the leadership of their national liberation movements. The immediate and unconditional release of all detainees must continue to be our unyielding demand. South Africa's black majority today is under virtual siege. The racist regime has shown itself to possess neither the policy nor the capability for progressive change and that, short of brute force, it is politically bankrupt.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Increased aid should be extended to the front-line States, which are fulfilling a crucial role in the liberation struggle. Pretoria's policies of ruthless oppression and illegal occupation in Namibia are in fact reflective of the inherent nature of the regime itself, which in South Africa has implanted and perfected the obnoxious system of apartheid, a system of institutionalized racism pronounced by the United Nations as a crime against humanity. Indonesia view the latest developments in South Africa with the utmost gravity and concern. The imposition of a state of emergency by the racist regime has unleashed a further escalation of violence, repression and terror.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“South Africa's stubborn flouting of all accepted norms of international law and civilized behavior and the dismal failure of the policy of so-called constructive engagement have long since convinced my Government that nothing short of comprehensive mandatory sanctions under Chapter VII of the Charter can bring South Africa to its senses. But while the Security Council has yet to overcome its inability to adopt effective enforcement measures, we cannot afford to wait. We should keep up the pressure by widening international ostracism and the scope of mandatory and voluntary embargoes and boycotts. We should step up concrete support of the Namibian people's struggle, under the leadership of SWAPO, their sole and authentic representative.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Indeed, after blocking the realization of that plan, inter alia, by linking extraneous and irrelevant issues to Namibian independence, the racist Pretoria regime has most recently perpetrated a new act of willful obstruction by establishing yet another so-called "interim government" in the Territory in arrogant defiance of world censure and rejection. At the same time, it has not ceased to use Namibia as a launching pad for attacks against the front-line States, as evidenced by the renewed aggression against Angola unleashed just a week ago, in yet another futile attempt to crush the freedom fighters of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO).”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Another task of great urgency facing our Organization is to ensure the speedy decolonization of Namibia, for the situation in that Territory not only epitomizes all the odious features of classical colonialism but also contains the added dimensions of racist oppression and illegal plunder of natural resources, thus posing a unique challenge to our collective sense of justice and morality. It is long been self-evident that South Africa has never had any intention whatsoever of co-operating in good faith in the implementation of the United Nations plan for Namibian independence, as contained in Security Council resolution 435 (1978).”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“It is our sincere hope that the study will generate concerted and concrete follow-up action by Member States, first, through the negotiation of effective measures of nuclear disarmament and confidence-building at sea and, secondly, by identifying possible ways in which naval organization and capabilities may contribute to the establishment of enhanced ocean management policies for the peaceful uses of the sea and its resources, to the benefit of all mankind.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“By resolution 38/188 G, of 20 December 1983, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to carry out, with the assistance of a group of governmental experts, a comprehensive study on all aspects of this particular dimension of the overall arms race. The group of experts has now finalized that study, and, having actively participated in its work, ray delegation looks forward to the Secretary-General's report on the subject, which will be submitted for consideration by the Assembly at this session.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“In South-East Asia the member States of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) are at present engaged in working out principles and modalities in order to arrive at a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region. As a Pacific-rim country, we welcome the recent establishment of a nuclear-free zone in the South Pacific. Likewise we support the stand taken by the South Pacific Forum countries against continued nuclear testing in the region. As a maritime nation and a non-nuclear-weapon State, Indonesia has viewed with mounting concern the proliferation and geographical dispersion of nuclear weapons on the world's oceans and seas.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Meanwhile new technologies and new generations of weapon systems are continually being devised and deployed and new strategic doctrines formulated to rationalize their use. Consequently the threat of nuclear war has become more menacing than ever before. We continue to believe, therefore, that an immediate halt to all testing, production and deployment of nuclear weapons and their delivery systems, as a necessary first step, would greatly facilitate negotiations between the nuclear-weapon States. We also hope that the forthcoming summit meeting between President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev will at least generate the necessary momentum to break the log-jam in all negotiating forums on disarmament. Indonesia has always supported the concept of nuclear-weapon-free zones in the context of a regionalist approach to disarmament.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Thus, while the nuclear-weapon States must assume primary responsibility for this state of affairs, the imperatives of disarmament and international security cannot be left to their exclusive concern, for what is at stake is the most fundamental right of humans and of nations, which is the right to their very survival and existence. It is a matter of deep concern to note, therefore, that, while disarmament negotiations under United Nations auspices have yet to yield meaningful results, those conducted outside it have equally remained stalemated. We regret that this can be the only possible characterization of the recently resumed Geneva negotiations between the two major Powers, whose avowed objective is the termination of the arms race on earth and its prevention in outer space.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“The world economy is plagued by stagnation, inequity and dislocation - and all this is occurring against the background of the most perilous arms race the world has ever known. In the past 40 years the United Nations and the international community at large have faced no greater challenge than the growing risk of nuclear war, propelled by an ever-escalating armament race and the excessive accumulation and qualitative refinement of weapons of mass destruction. At present the nuclear arsenals in the possession of the two major Powers have reached such levels as to be wholly disproportionate to any possible national security requirement. Indeed, they have acquired the capability to obliterate all life on earth many times, over.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“But neither should we fail to act with even greater purpose and determination to rectify the obvious inadequacies and shortcomings of our Organization in addressing the central issues of our time. The underlying causes of existing conflicts persist, and new conflicts continue to emerge. There has been a precipitous decline in mutual trust and confidence among States, accompanied by an alarming recourse to armed force in the settling of disputes. The marked increase in tensions between the great Powers has led to a heightened polarization and to the revival of power polities. The rule of law, essential for a stable international order, is all too often being flouted.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Hence, in looking back at both its successes and its failures and, more importantly, in looking towards the future, we should not indulge in either lamentation or self-congratulation but rather try to draw positive lessons from them. We should acknowledge that the challenges the United Nations has faced throughout these years and the advances it has made towards a world of greater peace, larger freedom and well-being for mankind make a compelling case for the further strengthening of multilateral co-operation. Such co-operation should be seen as the inescapable expression of the concept of shared responsibility inherent in the Charter, of the sense of human solidarity that lies at the heart of multilateralism.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“In many more instances, where a comprehensive solution could not be found immediately, the United Nations has been able to restrict the scope and intensity of conflict, by substituting dialog for armed hostilities and by providing an acceptable framework within which the search for a solution could proceed in a peaceful way. In this context, United Nations peace-keeping operations have proved to be an important, innovative instrument in conflict control and in preventing the escalation of disputes into larger conflagrations. While admittedly the collective security system has not been able to function as envisaged by the Charter, even this limited role of the United Nations, as a channel for constructive dialog between contending parties, is shown to have been of immense value.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“But, to the extent that blame for this state of affairs can at all be attributed to the Organization, the pertinent fact to remember is that the United Nations can do only what its component Members want it to do and can succeed only if its Members are committed to make it succeed. Thus in assessing its performance in the maintenance of international peace and security the inherent limitations of its role must be taken into account. It can then be seen that in several conflict situations between Member States the United Nations has actually succeeded in finding a peaceful settlement.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Even in the field of keeping the peace, the other basic function of the United Nations, which through the years has been the object of such scathing public criticism because of its real or perceived failures, the record is not as poor as is sometimes suggested. It is true that the United Nations has failed to halt and reverse the global arms race, which has assumed such dangerous and irrational proportions as to threaten the very survival of mankind. It cannot be denied that the United Nations has not been able to prevent the 130 or more armed conflicts which since its founding have erupted in various regions of the world.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Can we any longer envisage a world without the United Nations and its specialized agencies to provide assistance and relief to the many thousands of refugees, to the millions of undernourished children and mothers, to those afflicted by hunger, poverty, disease and illiteracy? Can we deny such landmarks as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Law of the Sea and the outer space Treaty, to name but a few? Of course, in all these activities and programs success has not always been forthcoming; but what has been achieved and what continues to be done indeed touch on the essential purposes for which the United Nations as our collective instrument was created: that of building peace, of working on the essential conditions for lasting peace with justice in the world.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“The constraints of time inhibit me from elaborating on the other achievements and the multitude of other activities on the positive ledger of our Organization's record during the past four decades. They are to be found in the numerous programs and measures that are continuously being formulated and implemented by its various organs, specialized agencies and related institutions. They cover international co-operation in such diverse fields as economic and social development; monetary and trade arrangements; the codification of basic concepts of international law; the promotion of fundamental human rights; education and scientific development; the peaceful uses of outer space; the exploitation of the sect-bed and ocean floor; the safeguarding of the environment, and many more.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“The positive contributions of the Non-Aligned Movement to the further growth and direction of the United Nations are a matter of record, especially so in accelerating the process of world-wide decolonization, a process in which our Organization has played a central role. Since the adoption of the historic Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, the twenty-fifth anniversary of which we are also commemorating this year, there has been a profound transformation in the quantitative as well as qualitative nature and workings of the United Nations. As a result, at its fortieth anniversary, the Organization has come ever closer to its goal of true universality.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“The Bandung Declaration found concrete expression in the birth of the Non-Aligned Movement, in Belgrade in 1961, where its founding members undertook to revise fundamentally the dangerous simplicities of the cold war. Their objective was and still is to free the world from the policies of force, bloc rivalry, domination, hegemony and exploitation. The Non-Aligned Movement has sought to achieve a peaceful progression towards a democratized, international system of peaceful co-existence and co-operation among nations and to strengthen the vital role of equitably conceived international institutions in the attainment of this objective.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“First and foremost was their genuine desire to promote the Charter objectives of eradicating colonialism, ensuring respect for fundamental human rights, eliminating racial discrimination, encouraging the peaceful settlement of disputes, halting the arms race and promoting economic development through international co-operation. Indeed, of the Ten Principles enunciated by the Conference, the very first reiterated respect for the purposes and principles of the Charter. And at the observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the Asian-African Conference that my Government had the honor to host in Bandung last April, the participants reaffirmed their conviction that "the United Nations is the unique and indispensable forum for resolving the major world issues".”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Neither the division of the world into military and ideological blocs nor the fierce competition for spheres of influence were anticipated, and the Organization, instead of serving as a center for harmonizing the actions of nations", became an arena for the contending forces of the cold war. Confronted by the darkening clouds of great-Power rivalry and a profoundly disturbing international situation, the leaders of the newly emergent States moved to consolidate their unity and solidarity in order to address the plethora of problems before the international community. Nurtured by their common colonial legacy and the shared experience of the struggle for independence, they met in Bandung in 1955, at the historic Asian-African Conference, to define together their concept of a just world order and the relationships that would flow from it.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Significantly, they had the clarity of vision to conceive on organization designed not only to prevent war but to seek the elimination of the seeds of war as well: by establishing the principles of sovereign equality, justice, self-determination and freedom; by instituting a system of collective security based on non-interference and abstention from the threat or use of forces and by developing an international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social progress of all peoples, through friendly relations and co-operation among nations. While still in its formative stage, the United Nations faced major challenges unforeseen by the Charter. The security provisions, premised on great Power unity and co-operation, were frustrated by the emergence of new antagonisms immediately after the war.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“On this auspicious occasion, therefore, we shall have the opportunity both for deep reflection on the history of the past forty years and a collective reappraisal of how further to enhance the effectiveness of the Organization in its realization of the purposes and objectives enshrined in the Charter. The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of a world conflagration of such devastation and destruction as to cause the founding fathers to summon up the common determination "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war".”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Before proceeding, I would like to express my delegation's heartfelt sorrow for the victims of the tragic earthquakes that have struck Mexico with such devastation. Our sympathy and feelings of solidarity go out to the Government and people of Mexico, in their hour of anguish and great hardship. We are all aware of the particular significance of this fortieth anniversary session of the General Assembly, taking place as it does amidst the turbulence of sweeping changes and the emergence of historical trends in the world. Some of these changes are to be welcomed as opportunities for the advancement of world peace, justice and the well-being of mankind, while others pose new problems and challenges to our collective ingenuity and resolve.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Ambassador Paul Lusaka of Zambia for the dignified and skillful manner in which which he guided the work of the thirty-ninth session of the General Assembly, as well as for his chairmanship of the Preparatory Committee for the Fortieth Anniversary of the United Nations. The Assembly is greatly indebted to our distinguished Secretary-General, Mr. Javier Perez de Cuellar, for his dedicated leadership in guiding the work of the Organization. His incisive analyses and candid assessments of the impediments standing in the way of achieving the full potential of the United Nations, and the measures he has proposed to improve its performance, have provided us with a useful framework for our efforts to make the Organization assume its proper role in creating a better world.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“It is a great pleasure for need to extend to Mr. Jaime de Pinies, on behalf of the delegation of Indonesia, my sincere congratulations on his election as President of the General Assembly at its fortieth session. His elevation to this high office is a tribute to his personal qualities and reflects the esteem in which Spain is held among the community of nations. The fact that he has served his country as a diplomat with great distinction and ability over the past four decades, three of them at the United Nations, eminently qualifies him to carry out his onerous duties with authority and efficiency. I also wish to express the gratitude and deep appreciation of ray delegation to his predecessor.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“For it may not be just our mutual interest that is at stake, but our common survival, and none of us can afford to evade this challenge and refuse to bear this responsibility.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“My delegation further believes that in this effort the non-aligned movement to which Indonesia belongs could and should make an important contribution, both at the conceptual level and in initiating concrete proposals, as it has consistently done in the past on the global issues of peace, security and international economic co-operation. 254. In a rapidly changing world of disparate interests and contending visions, the only alternative to re-storing the United Nations as a relevant organization capable of meeting the challenges of our time is to allow an unmanaged and uncontrollable slide into international chaos and anarchy. As the Secretary-General has warned, we appear to be perilously close to that point. 255. Thus, for once, the task before us should not be seen in terms of a demand by one side and an act of generosity by the other.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“But the reforming impulse, the hopes and yearnings of peoples everywhere for a more peaceful, just and prosperous world order based on the ideals and principles of the Charter remain alive and cannot be quieted. 253. Indonesia remains convinced 'hat despite its present inadequacies, the United Nations still represents the best instrument to transform these hopes into reality and to fashion at least the minimum conditions for a better life for all in the decades to come. Therefore, if the Organization is to fulfill its role as the focal point for the global management of the critical problems of our time, it is imperative that a new sense of purpose be instilled in its mechanisms and procedures so as to prevent it from degenerating into a sterile debating forum.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“With reference to the status and role of women, there is an increased recognition of their contribution towards development as reflected in the Mexico, World Plan of Action for the Implementation of the Objectives of the International Women-Year. This positive trend is further stimulated by the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of AH Forms of Discrimination against Women. We sincerely hone that the 1985 World Conference on the United Nations Decade for Women will be able to review and appraise constructively the implementation of the Plan of Action. 252. This year that has witnessed its abundant share of world-wide turbulence and tragedy, and the inca-pacity of the United Nations to prevent them or to provide timely redress, and there is always the temptation to lapse into cynicism and disaffection.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Turning briefly now to some social aspects of the United Nations activities, the preparations for the International Youth Year in 1985, which are now in progress, are commendable. An increased participation of non governmental youth organizations in the International Youth Year would greatly encourage them to share in the responsibilities of solving global youth problems and thereby help to promote world peace. Such an exercise would also increase their ability to participate in the national youth development program. The Indonesian Government, therefore, fully supports the Specific Programme of Measures and Activities. 251.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Its recommendation to start negotiations on a global system of trade preference among developing countries and the development of food security reserves deserves our particular attention. In our opinion, the implementation of the global system of trade preference, through a gradual approach, will ultimately help the efforts for trade expansion among developing countries. 247. In so far as co-operation on food security reserves is concerned, we believe that it can best be implemented through sub-regional and regional arrangements, which could then be extended on a world-wide scale. We in ASEAN have initiated such an arrangement and are in the process of trying to develop further the ASEAN food security reserve co-operation. 230.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“If, however, the impasse continues with no concrete results emerging from these important meetings, we will once again be witnessing another lost chance in which the international community will have failed to grasp the opportunity for progress. 245. Given the slow pace of the North-South negotiations, the measured progress of collective self-reliance among developing countries is more indispensable now than ever. Indonesia is committed to this process, not only because it is transforming the patterns of development, but because it constitutes an essential ingredient for the rapid advancement of the developing countries. 246. In this connection, we endorse the results of the meeting of the Intergovernmental Follow-up and Co-ordination Committee on economic co-operation among the developing countries held in Manila in August.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Regretfully, the escalation of protectionist measures practiced by some developed countries has seriously eroded the efforts of the developing countries to expand their exports. The sharp deterioration of their terms of trade continues to aggravate their already serious economic plight. 243. In this context, the forthcoming ministerial meeting of GATT provides an excellent opportunity and a historic turning point for the establishment of fair international trading practices. Such action is imperative for the expansion of trade of the developing countries. 244. The sixth session of UNCTAD, scheduled for late next spring at Belgrade, will, we believe, be of crucial importance for remedying the central problems and the current disruptions in world trade and development which could lead to the revival of the world economy.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“It is our sincere hope that these countries would be willing to undertake the adjustments needed to achieve this concept. 240. We are convinced that piecemeal, domestic- oriented and bilateral remedies for our global problems are a futile exercise in a world of increasing interdependence. Restructuring, therefore, under the aegis of our universal body, the United Nations, should no longer be deferred. 241. Having said that, I wish to emphasize that this does not mean that the global negotiations or the efforts to launch them should in any way divert our attention from the ongoing negotiations in other sectoral forums. 242. The restructuring of international trade is a vital vehicle for achieving self-sustained development. And above anything else, access to markets is crucial.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“My delegation endorses the search for new initiatives to reach a consensus on some crucial procedural issues. These efforts can be successful only if some developed countries demonstrate the political will to take positive step towards an early launching of these negotiations. 238. An important feature underlying the economic system today is that of interdependence. We believe that interdependence does not imply only a mutuality of benefits for both the rich and poor countries. It also means that the self-sustained economic development of the developing countries could contribute towards the economic well-being of the developed countries. 239. We are pleased to note that there has been a gradual increase of understanding by some developed countries on the inevitability of interdependence.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Concurrent with the continuing critical climate in international politics, the international economy has plunged to one of the lowest depths in several decades. 236. Aggravating the situation is the serious erosion of multilateral economic co-operation, mainly through the regressive policies of some developed countries, which run counter to the basic goals and objectives of an increasingly interdependent world. 237. The seemingly hopeful signs generated at the Cancun and Versailles Economic Summits in seeking a breakthrough in the stalemated global negotiations have proved to be illusory. It has to be acknowledged that there was indeed some movement towards launching the global negotiations through an enabling resolution. However, the informal consultations so far have regretfully not yielded any substantive progress.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“It is conceivable that, taken separately, all provisions of the Law of the Sea Convention are not acceptable to a particular country. But taken as a whole, being a compromise text in a package, the text is obviously acceptable to the world community. My delegation believes that the Law of the Sea Convention is extremely important to maintaining law and order in ocean affairs as well as to promoting national development and management of ocean uses and resources. My delegation therefore would like to appeal to the small number of countries which have not adopted the Convention to reconsider their position, so that the Law of the Sea Convention, being the product of long years of negotiation, can become truly universal in nature and application. 235.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Guided by the important decisions adopted at the International Conference on Sanctions against South Africa, held in Paris in 1981, my delegation is convinced that the international community should intensify its solidarity with the people of South Africa by maintaining and strengthening the agreed set of sanctions designed to isolate South Africa in all spheres of international relations. 234. On 30 April 1982 the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea adopted a comprehensive Convention on the Law of the Sea.^ This was a monumental achievement in multilateral negotiations under the auspices of the United Nations. The fact that the draft Convention was adopted by 130 countries and was opposed by only 4 indicates that each provision is acceptable to the overwhelming majority of the States in the world.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Despite the many obstacles that continue to block the way to securing Namibia's independence, the negotiating process has shown some signs of progress, as noted in the Secretary-General's report. Every effort should be made, however, to compel South Africa to negotiate in good faith and within the guidelines established by resolution 435 (1978). 232. It is disturbing to all of us that, despite the condemnation of the system of apartheid by almost all Member States, South Africa continues to ignore the repeated appeals of the international community to end the practice of 233.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“In this regard, my delegation will firmly oppose any effort by South Africa to impose any fraudulent electoral, constitutional or political schemes, and any pretext to link the solution of the Namibian problem to any other issue that would be in contravention of resolution 433 (1978), all of which are designed to perpetuate South Africa's domination of the Territory. Furthermore, at the Arusha meeting my delegation endorsed the call for a Geneva-type conference at which all outstanding issues should be discussed and resolved together in a comprehensive manner. The early scheduling of such a conference may help intensify current efforts to overcome South Africa's intransigence.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The racists in Pretoria have on numerous occasions used their military forces to thwart any progress in the negotiations to implement Security Council resolution 435 (1978). 230. South Africa has clearly demonstrated that it is prepared to use every maneuver, and to exploit every opportunity to employ force, to undercut all efforts towards a negotiated settlement leading to the establishment of an independent Namibia. 231. The most expeditious means to bring about Namibian independence is contained in the Arusha Declaration and Programme of Action on Namibia adopted by the United Nations Council for Namibia in May this year. It urged the Western contact group to accept SWAPO's constructive proposal for the early implementation of the United Nations plan and to exert firm and genuine pressure on South Africa.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“It is precisely for this reason that the Conference, as stipulated in relevant General Assembly resolutions, should be the forum to discuss all relevant issues, with a view to opening the constructive dialogue that heretofore has eluded us. It is a truism that the convening of one conference might not suffice to resolve all the problems pertaining to the Indian Ocean. However, the Conference should be a first step towards improving the political and security climate in the region. 229. In recent months the international community has witnessed renewed large-scale military operations by South Africa against SWAPO in a desperate attempt to eliminate the sole authentic and internationally recognized representative of the Namibian people. It should be noted that there is nothing new in these South African tactics.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The nuclear Powers should, moreover, recognize that it :s no less important to pursue multilateral negotiations, by enabling the Committee on Disarmament to discharge its responsibilities and renew efforts to negotiate on the priority issues. 228. There is a growing apprehension that the region of the Indian Ocean is rapidly become the focus of a new cold-war rivalry between the super-Powers. As a littoral State, Indonesia is convinced that the convening of the International! Conference on the Indian Ocean is ar\ essential step towards the establishment of a zone of peace. We are fully aware of the ramifications of the conflicts and tension that engulf the region.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“These developments have prevented meaningful progress in stemming the tide of the arms race. 227. Despite that failure, however, the session has served as a focal point for widespread expression of public concern about the arms race, and in particular about the danger of nuclear weapons. The proposals for a ban on the use of nuclear weapons, and for a freeze on their development and production, and the renewed call for a comprehensive ban on nuclear- weapon tests, fully reflected world opinion. It is our hope that the bilateral talks between the United States and the Soviet Union will be pursued with a sense of urgency and lead to meaningful limitations and significant reductions in nuclear weapons.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The second special session on disarmament which was convened, with great expectations, to follow up the decisions of the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the general Assembly, adopted in 1978, has become a casualty of the present climate of distrust and tension and has degenerated into a series of platitudes, devoid of substantive commitments. The inability to adopt a comprehensive program of disarmament at the session, regarded by many States, including my own, as crucial to our efforts for an integrated approach, was a great disappointment. It was, moreover, regrettable that some of the leading Powers disregarded their commitments undertaken in the 197% Final Document and were unwilling to use the United Nations as an instrument for genuine disarmament effort.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)