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1979-09-24
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  1. “We accept fully the responsibilities that go with our economic weight and we seek to develop with the rest of the world a relationship of friendship and co-operation that will take full account of the interdependent nature of our global society. 11. The world economic situation is extremely difficult. For 1979, the Community is likely to register a reduced economic growth rate of 3 per cent and in 1980 this may fall to 2 per cent. We have been less successful than we hoped in dealing with inflation and unemployment. In facing up to this state of affairs, the Community looks not only to its own interests but also to international economic well-being. 12. Last December the European Council agreed to establish the European monetary system. This was a means of bringing about a greater measure of monetary stability within the Community.”

    1979-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 34 (1979)

  2. “It is important to us because it is evidence of our commitment to democracy and because it involves the citizens of the Community in a new and more direct way in shaping its future. Secondly, a decision was taken to enlarge our Community further. Greece signed the treaty by which it will become the tenth member in 1981; negotiations are continuing for the accession of Portugal and Spain; and we are, of course, continuing to develop our relations as a community with other associated States in our region. 10. It is on behalf of this growing Community and its member States—a Community where old enemies have become friends and partners in a movement towards closer integration—that I speak to you today in this wider world forum.”

    1979-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 34 (1979)

  3. “We nine countries, as member States of the European Community, feel that we exemplify in a particular way the aim of "harmonizing the actions of nations" because our Community grew out of the determination to make a new beginning in a continent so often torn by war. In building that Community we do not seek to impose a static and rigid order on our diversity, but rather, be a slow and patient process of growth, to move towards a closer union between our peoples. 9. Two developments in the past year illustrate this process. First, our peoples have voted together in the first direct elections to send representatives to a common parliament. This was, I believe, the first such international election in history.”

    1979-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 34 (1979)

  4. “The United Nations and its family of organizations provide a forum in which interests can be accommodated and reconciled if we accept the implications of our interdependence. 7. What is needed is a determination to make a full use of the opportunities thus provided to act together in the interests of the human family. This means seeking to resolve actual or potential conflict, to organize the world economy more equitably, to relieve human suffering and to promote respect for human rights. On behalf of the nine countries for which I speak, I repeat that we are actively committed to the United Nations as the "centre for harmonizing the actions of nations" envisaged by the Charter. 8.”

    1979-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 34 (1979)

  5. “Our task now is to order our affairs globally in a manner that measures up to the economic and political objectives of a global society. This requires that we come to grips both with the problems of inequity within the world economy and with the need to resolve conflict and tension without resort to war. 5. Injustices of which we may have previously been only partly aware must, in a global society, be redressed, if dangerous division and dissension are to be avoided. Conflicts which in the past could be seen as local and limited now have an impact on all of us. 6. The need for wisdom and understanding in the management of human affairs is clear, as we face these clangers and come to see the limits of our resources and our environment. We have the framework in which to apply this wisdom.”

    1979-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 34 (1979)

  6. “Mr. President, I wish to congratulate you on your election as President of this session of the Assembly. This marks the Assembly's recognition of your unique contribution to its work over the years and the regard of the international community for the constructive role played by the United Republic of Tanzania in world affairs. 2. I am honoured to have the opportunity today of addressing this Assembly as President-in-Office of the European Community and of European Political Co-operation. 3. A world-wide political system of independent nations has come into being since this Organization was founded, and each year the Member States come together in this universal forum to debate the problems of our global society; for mankind now sees itself increasingly as one. 4.”

    1979-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 34 (1979)