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VELAYATI

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first: 1982-09-24
most recent: 1995-09-24
sittings or episodes: 13
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“Do we not know that the Iraqi regime desperately tried to link the question of checking the oil spill with the whole theatre of war, and by delaying and stopping the operations to stop the spill proved once again that it was ready to sacrifice the vital interests of the coastal countries and upset their ecology for its own selfish designs and inhuman objectives? Fortunately, a few days ago our oil technicians and experts, having overcome enormous obstacles and with a great deal of self-sacrifice, succeeded in completely harnessing one of the damaged oil wells that was gushing some 2,000 barrels of oil into the waters of the Persian Gulf. This remarkable achievement is indicative of the keen interest of the Islamic Republic of Iran in safeguarding the interests of the States of the region and of its ability to do so.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“The Foreign Minister of Iraq talks about peace and peaceful solutions when the streets, residential areas, and market-places in these towns are still wet with the blood of innocent and defenceless women and children. But this is only a small part of the tragic, bloody story of the Baathists' mad invasion of Iran. Is there anyone who does not know about the catastrophe of the oil spill in the Persian Gulf—a deliberate attempt, outside the war zone, to pollute the waters of the Gulf, endanger marine life and threaten the interests of the coastal countries?”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“Does this document not indicate to everyone that the Muslim people of Iran, who have been victims of a beastly aggression and who have for three years suffered the daily mindless bombardments of the aggressor and received hundreds of deadly missiles, has followed its Islamic teachings strictly and has refrained from retribution against Iraqi towns and cities within easy range of Iranian artillery? The Assembly has heard what the Iraqi Foreign Minister said about the peaceful intentions of the Iraqi regime. But I draw your attention to what the Iraqi regime has done, only during the last few months, to the cities of Piranshahr, Baneh, Marivan, Andimeshk and Gilan Gharb in western Iran.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“The report shows that the majority of our occupied towns and cities were ninety per cent, and sometimes one hundred per cent, destroyed by mechanical and engineering equipment, in direct violation of the articles of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949/ The cities of Hoveyzeh, Khorramshahr and Qasr-i-Shirin fall into this category. On the Iraqi side, a glimpse at the report shows that the Iraqi Baathists failed miserably to prove what they claimed.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“Although the report does not cover all the facts regarding the Iranian side of this tragic story, it has, nevertheless, reported some of the facts without bias or prejudice. We request those who have not studied this report to do so and make a comparison of its contents with the official communiqués and press releases which the governments of the aggressive regime and of the invaded country have so far submitted to the General Assembly or to the Secretary-General. A comparative study of this kind will tear the peace-loving mask off the ugly face of the brutally aggressive Iraqi Baathist regime.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“And the Security Council, also amazingly, broke its two- year-old silence and requested both belligerent parties to evacuate all occupied territories. Two years of occupation of our territories in no way threatened international peace and security, but the very first defeats of the aggressors in our territory immediately did so. Was our nation not justified in rejecting this ridiculous logic of the Security Council? I am certain that most representatives have already studied the report by the United Nations mission that visited liberated territories in our country. The mission also visited Iraq, inspected its border towns and cities, and prepared a report on the subject.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“The port city of Khorramshahr was liberated after heavy fighting, and the defeated Iraqi mercenaries started their hasty retreat. And then the Foreign Minister of the Iraqi regime wrote to the Secretary-General on 27 October 1980, "On the basis of military consideration and topography, there may be better positions forward for defensive purposes but there are none backward. Yes, this very same regime, following the Khorramshahr defeat and the speedy destruction of the Iraqi occupying army at the hands of our people, in an acrobatic gesture turned into a peace-loving government overnight and declared that it had unilaterally, and amazingly, decided to evacuate the occupied Iranian territories.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“The deadly, indifferent silence of the Security Council has accompanied the boastful propaganda of the Iraqi Baathists, who were spilling the blood of countless Iranian Muslims for almost two years. Our war-stricken people knew right from the beginning that the real motive behind the Baathist Iraqi invasion of Iran was not the occupation of parts of our country. The Iraqi Baathists were striving in earnest for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran. We are convinced that because we are an independent nation and are determined to remain so, we are alone and have to fight an enemy that is supported by practically all the members of the oppressive club of the world single-handedly. The great mobilization of our people and their swift movement towards the battlefronts upset all evil calculations.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“Had all the missiles and bombs dropped on our defenceless civilian population for two years after the adoption of this resolution been delivered to the aggressive regime of Iraq from the planet Mars? Why has this flagrant violation of resolution 479 (1980) never been questioned? Why on earth did the Security Council keep quiet about this war for two years? Did the crimes by the Baathist military deep inside our territory not threaten the peace and security of the world? Where have all these people who are now moaning and wailing about a threat to peace in the region been hiding all this time? Certainly all fair-minded informed people know that what is being threatened at present is not peace or security but the regime of Saddam and the interests of his super-Power supporters.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“" Does this contain any respect for Article 1, paragraph 1 and for Article 2, paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Charter of the United Nations? Does such a regime respect international security? In paragraph 3 of Security Council resolution 479 (1980), the Council "Calls upon all other States to exercise the utmost restraint and to refrain from any act which may lead to a further escalation and widening of the conflict". Did the permanent members of the Security Council not vote in favour of this resolution? Have the Governments of the United States, the Soviet Union and France, as permanent members of the Security Council, not violated their own crookedly adopted resolution by supplying the Iraqi regime with huge military and financial assistance?”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“Are we too suspicious in assuming that the Security Council's silence on this vital point was in perfect harmony with the evil desires of the Iraqi Foreign Minister, expressed in his letter of 27 October 1980 to the Secretary-General, in which he declared: "In the light of the above-mentioned considerations, the Government of the Republic of Iraq wishes to point out that any call for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces, before Iran recognizes the said Iraqi sovereignty in practice and legally, is in our view a legal and practical impossibility, for Iran has not delimited its borders with Iraq in a precise manner. "The lands reached so far by Iraqi forces are the necessary positions for defence until Iran recognizes our rights and guarantees are reached for the achievement of a final and permanent solution to the dispute.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“At that time, the aggressive regime of Saddam, intoxicated as it was with its easy Don Quixote victory against hospitals, mosques, schools and defenceless people, used arrogantly to declare in its official communiqués to the United Nations: "Iraqi troops continue their march, inflicting further defeats on the Persian enemy". That was a quote from a communiqué by the so-called Revolutionary Command Council of Iraq. Do representatives know how the Security Council's President responded at that time? They should kindly take a look at the Security Council resolution 479 (1980) of 28 September 1980. Can anyone see anything whatsoever referring to the withdrawal of aggressive forces to international borders? Are we now permitted to ask why there was no such request?”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“Long before the Secretary-General of the Communist Tudeh Party of Iran, arrested on charges of shameless espionage for the Soviet Union, confessed in a television interview that the Soviet Union had already informed him of the imminent Iraqi invasion of Iran and that the Baathist chieftain was nursing the idea of "liberating" the Iranian oil-rich province of Khuzestan, many of us in Iran, having already witnessed the dropping of French- made, American-made and Russian-made missiles on our border towns and villages, were certain that the superpowers had already reached an agreement to support the Baathist regime of Iraq in its devastating invasion of revolutionary Iran.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“And we realized that the price we had already paid to liberate our country from the domination of the West and the East and to gain freedom and independence was to be increased by more than we had imagined.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“Three years ago, when our nation had just rid itself of the domination of the American Satan and his stooge, the ex- Shah, and was gradually taking difficult steps towards the reconstruction of the liberated land of Iran, the aggressive Baathists of Iraq invaded Iran in a marriage against the defenceless people of Persian, Arab and Kurdish origin, employing 12 well-equipped divisions, some 3,000 tanks and scores of bombers and helicopter gunships. They advanced to considerable depths inside our territory, which was only yesterday liberated from the claws of the Big Satan and its agent in Iran, the American Shah. Defenceless cities, towns and villages were invaded one after another; thousands of innocent men and women, young and old, were massacred; towns and villages were razed to the ground.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“It is now three years since the Iranian people was savagely invaded by world imperialism and its stooges. In the eyes of imperialism, the Muslim people of Iran had committed an unpardonable sin: they had won back their freedom and independence, they had refused the domination of the super-Powers and they had decided to work for justice and truth throughout the world. The Baathist regime of Iraq, representing the interests of imperialism, has for three years done everything in its power to destroy the economic and human resources of two Muslim peoples in the Middle East and has rendered considerable services to imperialism and world zionism in this respect.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“The people of the Islamic Republic of Iran, who have so much in common with the Afghan people, will not remain silent about this invasion. The only way to settle the Afghanistan problem lies in the complete, unconditional and immediate withdrawal of the occupying forces from Afghanistan, the non-intervention of other forces in the internal affairs of that country, the return of Afghan refugees to their homeland and the guarantee of the right of the people of Afghanistan to determine their own destiny. On this basis we reject any negotiation conducted in the absence of the true representatives of the Afghan nation. We further declare that the mature Afghan nation does not need a guardian, and no Government or international organization has the right to enter into negotiation on behalf of the Afghan people.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“The slaughtering of the defenceless Afghan people who, with a minimum of possibilities, heroically resist a mighty foreign invasion of their country, the continuous bombardment of the homes and farms of the deprived people of Afghanistan, the use of deadly chemicals and the killing and injuring of a large number of people and the resultant refugee status of some four million people cannot be settled at negotiating tables at Geneva in the absence of the true representatives of the Afghan people. The Soviet Union is treading the same path already trodden by the United States in Viet Nam, and if it insists on this policy it will be taught the same lesson by the Afghan people that the American Satan learned from the Vietnamese.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“It is for that reason that the three-year-old armed struggle of the Afghan people against the occupying Russian force is and will remain a sublime example of a people's heroic resistance in the eyes of the peoples of the third world in general and the great Islamic family in particular. It is high time that the world community paid serious attention to the question of Afghanistan.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“If some of the regimes ruling over Islamic countries had not adopted a submissive, impotent attitude with regard to the Zionist non-entity and its gun-toting supporter, the Big Satan, surely the atheist Government of the Soviet Union would not have dared enter the Islamic land of Afghanistan. And if the great people of Viet Nam had not fought the United States aggressors so heroically and ceaselessly, we would certainly be witnessing today the arrogant galloping of the super-Power horses over a large part of the third world. Thus, the armed resistance of an invaded nation will not only benefit those fighting against aggression but also guarantee the independence and national sovereignty of all other nations.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“If any one of us in the Islamic world were to remain indifferent to the situation in Palestine and allow the aggressive, racist regime more time, we should one after another fall victim to the expansionist policies of that chronic aggressor. We must all learn, once and for all, that force does not recognize any logic but the logic of force. The great danger inherent in failing to confront aggressors forcefully is not only that it helps the continuance of aggression in a particular case; the great danger lies also in the fact that such an attitude will persuade and encourage all other potentially aggressive forces.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“The delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran expresses its full support for the armed struggle of the Palestinian people to win back their stolen rights, draws the attention of every individual Member State and the United Nations as a whole to their obligations and commitments regarding this great question and warns all responsible Member States that the collapse of the cause of Palestine would mean the impotence and bankruptcy of the whole international community in regard to the aggressive Zionist regime and its oppressive allies. We should also add that the cause of Palestine is an inseparable and integrated part of the cause of the Islamic people throughout the world.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“We are convinced that victory in this struggle cannot be won except by following the sublime teachings of Islam, by emphasizing our human values and by the mobilization of the Muslim masses and all freedom-loving people of the world against rulers and regimes dependent on the United States Satan and its Zionist hired gun.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“Finally, I should add that, under Article 6 the Zionist regime should be expelled from the United Nations for persistent violation of the principles of the Charter. Today, however, the tyrannized and oppressed people of Palestine remain as tyrannized and oppressed as ever. The Islamic Republic of Iran believes that the settlement of the Palestine question lies in joint international action to remove the causes of aggression in a decisive and forceful confrontation with the aggressor to ease the way for the return of the Palestinian people to their homeland and the establishment of an independent Palestine in all the occupied lands belonging to the Palestinian people.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“If the United Nations feels obliged to give practical effect to the principles of its Charter regarding the safeguarding of international peace and security, it should advocate an all-out military and economic embargo against the Zionist usurper regime; it should also create a system for supervising the correct implementation of the embargo so that any State not complying with it would be identified. The United Nations must carry out its legal obligations with regard to Articles 41 and 42 in Chapter VII of the Charter in respect of international peace and security. The United Nations should, on the basis of the principles of its Charter, condemn the United States and French Governments for their military aggression against Lebanon and the violation of the rights of the Lebanese people.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“There is no doubt that United States imperialism and Zionism are conducting a co-ordinated policy designed to obliterate the national and religious identity of the persecuted Palestinian people and, by employing political, military and publicity conspiracies, to destroy the cause of Palestine in the long term. The increasing presence of United States and French imperialist forces has only one meaning: the imperialist oppressors have decided to oppose the freedom and independence of all Muslim nations of the world in a final confrontation. Does the bombardment of Muslim residential areas of Lebanon by United States, French and other aggressive Powers point to any other intention?”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“If it had not be or Camp David, the beautiful land of Lebanon will not have been drenched in blood by Zionist atrocities today. After all these bitter experiences, are we not right today to think of the acceptance of plans like the Fez plan, the so-called Reagan plan or the pact between Lebanon and Israel as not only a betrayal of the Palestinian cause but also a greater betrayal of the aspirations of some one billion Muslims throughout the world? There is no cure for the cancerous growth of Zionism except surgery. If the Allies could have persuaded Hitler to withdraw and recognize the rights of other nations, then we could do the same with the Zionists today.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“The regime occupying Palestine, enjoying the unconditional support of the Big Satan, has not cared a fig for these resolutions but has constantly assaulted the Palestinian people and invaded other Islamic countries. Aggression and transgression are intrinsic characteristic? of this regime; there would be no definition of Zionism if aggression were left out. That is why we have always maintained that peaceful negotiations with these Nazis of supposedly Jewish origin to put an end to their intrinsic aggressive motif will lead nowhere and have not led anywhere. Why do we not learn from the past? Why can we not understand that, apart from the incorrigible nature of Zionism, negotiating or reaching understanding with an enemy that is occupying our territory produces no results except to give it an unfair advantage?”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“Has not the time come for us to think about our condition, to rediscover ourselves and to find out what kind of world our world is? Allow me to answer the last question by describing the mortifying, inhuman situations in some parts of our world. As a Muslim and the representative of a nation that has always put the fight against the evil of Zionism foremost, I will start with the question of Palestine. For 36 years now the oppressed and downtrodden people of Palestine have been subjected to the savage aggressions of the usurper Zionist military camp in the Middle East. For the past 36 years the history of the tyrannized people of Palestine has been written in blood by the successors to Hitler. During all this time the United Nations has routinely adopted resolutions which have been of no practical use.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“Is it not time for the international community to stop and search its conscience as it thinks about its future, and thus find an appropriate, human answer? Is not the situation in most parts of the world sufficiently saddening and heart-rending? Can we have any hope that the United Nations will be able to combat the monsters of hunger and poverty, aggression and war, colonialism and exploitation while most Members of the Organization are being squeezed in the claws of one super-Power or the other? It is very unfortunate that some of us, as representatives of our nations, have even lost the most natural human sensibilities with regard to the most horrendous acts of the super-Powers today. It is as if we lived in a world completely divorced from reality.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“At the price of the long and bitter experiences we have endured, and having learnt from painful historic events, we have arrived at the conclusion that moral degradation or cultural sickness is the breeding ground for all forms of poverty, slavery and submissive- ness on the one hand and all forms of oppression, exploitation, expansionism and suppression on the other. Although this is a truism for all humanity, in this phase of human history, when only moral and spiritual values could lay a sound foundation for social relations among nations and dignified ways of life for people, unfortunately there is no sign of any code of human behaviour or set of rules inspired by ethical considerations or spiritual values. Today a very basic question that we must ask ourselves is where we are heading.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“In spite of all that, not a day or night has passed since the last General Assembly session without the big Powers and their clients and cronies trampling upon the rights of the oppressed, spilling their blood and spreading injustice to the far corners of the world. In fact, nothing is left of the principles of the Charter of the United Nations except a meaningless framework; the concepts of liberty, freedom and social justice have been sadly ridiculed by the oppression, suppression and savagery of those evil Powers. Words and deeds, theory and practice, are constantly diverging at an astonishing speed. Our world today is suffering above all from a grave moral crisis, and if we do not confront this problem seriously and collectively it will most dangerously threaten our human life and human values.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“This session takes place at a time when the economic, social and political crises in the world have, regrettably, acquired far more threatening dimensions than when we last met here. Despite all the promises and agreements and all the resolutions adopted at the previous session, violations of the rights of the oppressed nations by the super-Powers have increased in an unprecedented manner. I do not think that there is a representative here who is not fully aware of the impressive number and volume of resolutions adopted and of the fiery speeches and statements made at the previous session in which love of peace and hatred of war-mongering and the violation of the rights of peoples were eloquently expressed.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“"Those not following the true path of God exploit their riches in obstructing others from the path of God and thus scatter their wealth; but they shall only rue it, and in the end, they will be defeated and driven into hell." First of all, Sir, I wish to congratulate you on your election as President of the thirty-eighth session of the General Assembly. I also take this opportunity to convey our gratitude and appreciation to the President of the previous session for his dedicated and successful direction of that session. Our delegation hopes that at the present session the Assembly will pursue the aims and objectives represented by its agenda and find suitable solutions for the difficulties and problems of our world today.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“Nor can international law, on the basis of the principle of unilateral and unequitable privileges that have proved to be destructive. We hope for the day when Member States, with realism and understanding of this fundamental development, will bestow upon the United Nations the role that benefits it.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“If proper action is not taken in this case or in similar cases, the concept of collective action for the maintenance of peace and security, contained in the Charter, will not be applied. And if serious measures are not taken in this case for the elimination of the unjust privilege of veto, the confidence that the deprived and tyrannized nations of the world should have in the Organization will not be created and the shortcomings to which the Secretary- General has referred in his report will not be eliminated. We should not forget that the Charter and its monopolistic privileges are the outcome of the post-Second-World-War situation, much of which no longer pertains, and the international atmosphere and the United Nations structure have changed too.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“If the United Nations and its Members firmly believed in the mission stipulated in the Charter for the maintenance of international peace and security, they would have had to take measures-if only because of the wounded international conscience-to punish that seed of evil- doing, insecurity, warmongering and aggression, within the context of Chapter VII of the Charter. Perhaps it is forgotten that Articles 41 and 42 of the Charter even exist. Is it not one of the conditions for membership in the Organization that a Member must be peace-loving? Did not the General Assembly in its resolution ES-7/4 of 30 April 1982 recognize Israel to be non-peace-loving? The provisions of Article 6 of the Charter suffice to expel Israel from the United Nations. Then why is warmongering Israel still a Member of the United Nations?”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Is it not the case that now that the interests of the superpowers, which supported the Iraqi regime with their money and weapons, are threatened, the members of the Security Council have started to think about adopting a resolution, commiserating about peace and including an item in this connection in the agenda of the General Assembly? I shall give a better example. On 18 September 1982 one of the most shocking crimes in human history was committed in Beirut before the very eyes of the world and the United Nations. Israeli criminals, assisted by mercenary phalangists, having committed crimes in southern Lebanon for several months and despite their false promises that they would not occupy west Beirut, attacked that area and slaughtered hundreds of defenseless and unarmed Palestinian and Lebanese men, women and children.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“But as soon as our combatants were able by their devotion and selflessness and the sacrifice of thousands of men, to expel the aggressive enemy from most of their soil, they embarked on the course of administering justice and ensuring the security of the borders. And then, all of a sudden, the mission of the super-Powers for the maintenance and consolidation of international peace and security was propounded. It is not known where these awakened consciences and missions were during the two years that had passed since the beginning of the war and the oppression and tyranny to which the people of Iran were subjected.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“And if a solution is not found, the world will not be far away from international anarchy and chaos. In this connection, many examples can be cited. In September 1980 the Iraqi regime attacked Iran and drowned thousands of innocent civilians in blood, displaced millions of our fellow countrymen and razed the cities located in the part of our territory that had been under its occupation for 22 months. It seems as if in the course of those two years the colossal machine of the United Nations was in a deep sleep and no one was thinking about the establishment of a just and honorable peace, the peaceful settlement of disputes and the maintenance of international security, as stipulated in the Charter.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“We believe that it is only through unity and collective pressure that deprived and economically backward countries can open the way to the initiation of international negotiations, totally and basically to change the world economic relations and order without being influenced by any pressure from the super-Powers. Enough has been said and heard in this connection, and now it is high time to take practical measures. Considering the influence of the super-Powers in the United Nations, the Organization has become a means to exert political pressure on those countries that are struggling against the 'imperialism of the East and West and Zionism. This colossal machine is put in motion only when the interests of one of the big Powers necessitates it.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The poverty and economic weakness of third world countries are directly related to the unsound development of the economies of the Western industrialized countries and their wasteful and dissipated use of economic resources. Therefore, we believe that global changes in production, trade and consumption should take place so as to change present world economic relations and order for which man's dignity and honor in relation to the new order should basically be taken into consideration. In the consultative seminar of the South, held in New Delhi, we said that the third world countries should form a united front to co-ordinate their economic policies against the countries of the North. To achieve that objective, the creation of a permanent secretariat to review the difficulties and present proper solutions is vital.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Efforts made to impede multilateral negotiations and collective action are blatant examples of such divisive strategies. We are of the opinion that as long as inhuman and merely materialistic viewpoints dominate the world economic order or the economies of countries and human beings, and organizations and Governments, particularly in Western industrialized countries, are limited to satisfying materialistic and consumer needs, the world economic and political crisis will not only fail to improve but will actually deteriorate. Along with the cancerous increase in consumption and development of the economies of the Western industrialized countries, we shall witness the poverty and economic paralysis of the majority of the peoples of the world.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“By exerting control over international organizations, such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and by opposing just and basic changes in the management of those organizations, the United States and other Western industrialized countries have persistently tried to impose on third world countries monetary and financial economic policies which protect imperialist interests, without any concern for the existing social and economic conditions and needs in developing countries. By imposing divisive measures and vicious political and economic maneuvers on third world countries, American imperialism, along with other Western industrialized countries, makes every effort to divide third world countries and preserve the oppressive, exploitative economic order.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“On the other hand, Western industrialized societies, especially America, by taking advantage of their dominant economic situation, by adopting and implementing oppressive policies, by imposing economic restrictions and sanctions, as well as by employing harsh commercial protective strategies against developing countries, endeavor to prevent the latter's economic, political and social development.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The economic and political policies of the Western industrialized countries, particularly those of the United States, are so shortsighted and narrow-minded that they reject the slightest legitimate wish of third world countries even for the smallest change in the oppressive world economic order. Among the measures adopted against third world countries are the negative reactions to the call for negotiations to establish a new international economic order, the creation of a variety of obstacles to the fruitful conclusion of the negotiations for establishing a financial system for the transfer of science and technology to third world countries, postponement of talks and exertion of pressure on other industrialized societies aimed at undermining the talks and causing a deadlock.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The increased deficit in the balance of payments, the negative changes in the terms of trade, the lack of financial capital for long-term, infrastructural and productive investments, the lack of access to global markets for offers of goods and services, the lack of transfer of technology and, finally, the brain drain only some of the difficulties that third world countries encounter owing to the world economic crisis. The main cause of this crisis is rooted in the unjust capitalist economic order and exploitative policies that world imperialism is implementing for the sake of preserving its material interests and political and cultural hegemony at the international level.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Therefore it lies with third world countries, thanks to all the experience they have gained from various imperialist strategies, to put an end to the differences created by imperialist forces and, by making use of their financial resources for their national well-being, take the first step for the eradication of this unjust order that has cast its shadow over the world. The serious crisis that dominates the world economy is a deep and structural one.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The super-Powers still continue to increase their production of arms and escalate the arms race, and thus brought the last session of the Committee on Disarmament, held at Geneva, to failure. Intensification of the arms race consumes the resources of third world countries that should be used for their prosperity and to end their deprivation. Instead, the profits go to the super-Powers, which substitute confrontation and conflict for amity and understanding in international relations.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“This is done at a time when, by allocating the budget of several strategic bombers to fighting certain diseases that each year take hundreds of victims from among the deprived peoples, those diseases could be eradicated. The second special session of the General Assembly on disarmament, in which much hope had been placed, proved unsuccessful. The failure of that session should be considered not only as a warning for world peace and security but also as a disaster that shows the seriousness of the international situation caused by the aggressive nature and expansionist ambitions of the super-Powers for the maintenance of their domination and influence over other countries of the world.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)