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Al-Jamali

THE RECORD WRITES THIS SPEAKER AS AL-JAMALI

lines on the record: 139
first: 1949-09-24
most recent: 1955-09-24
sittings or episodes: 5
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“Last year the United Nations General Assembly decided that Somaliland should attain its independence in ten years — a period which my delegation thought to be unduly long. If ten years are adequate to provide independence for Somaliland under Italy, should not the lapse of forty years have been enough for Morocco? It was in this spirit that the Iraq Government, along with other States members of the Arab League, submitted a request proposing that the item concerning Morocco should be included in the agenda of the sixth session and we sincerely hope that the General Assembly will take up the matter at the earliest possible date in this session. 112.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“Undoubtedly some inevitable struggle and friction did take place — but ultimately all was settled and friendly relations much more lasting than the former relations came into being. 111. Arab North Africa, which has been so helpful, and which has sacrificed so many of its young men for the cause of the Allies in two world wars, is not yet free. We sincerely hope that France, that great champion of freedom and democracy, will see to it that political, economic and cultural development in these countries go on at a faster pace and that Morocco will soon exercise its full independence. The United Nations Charter certainly stands for the principle of self-determination of peoples, and the people of Morocco are certainly ready for independence and self-government. They have been under French tutelage for over forty years.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“All we want in Libya is to see created a free and independent State — democratic and united, and ruled by a constitutional government supported by the true representatives of the people. Let us hope that no intrigue will be permitted to compromise the unity and territorial integrity of Libya. Libya certainly deserves all the technical and material help of the United Nations and let us hope that it will be a credit to this Organization. 110. The second question is that of Morocco. In this connexion, we wish to submit that the end of the Second World War saw a number of new countries attaining their freedom and independence. The emergence of India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Burma, Ceylon, Syria and Lebanon as independent States is no doubt a credit to the statesmanship of the leaders of both sides.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“Political problems and difficulties in the Arab world are due primarily to foreign influence and machinations. We believe that once power politics give way to the letter and spirit of the United Nations Charter, the Arab world will provide a good pillar of peace in this world. 109. Besides the problem of Palestine, the United Nations has been called upon to take action on two Arab questions. The first is that of Libya. We sincerely hope that Libya will become an independent State before 1 January 1952, and that at this session it will join us as the sixty-first Member of the United Nations. We sincerely hope that the decisions of this Assembly with regard to Libya will be put into effect in their true spirit.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“The awakening Arab nationalism based on common language, culture, history and geography binds us all together and has created amongst us a sense of unity. The Arab nation has fought on the side of the democracies in two world wars, hoping to achieve its national aspirations of freedom and unity. 108. Notwithstanding their great sacrifices, many Arab territories still await their deliverance from foreign subjugation, It is for this Organization, if it is to function according to the spirit of the Charter, to see to it that these people achieve their political freedom, their unity, and their economic, social and educational development in a democratic world. By tradition the Arab is friendly and hospitable. Xenophobia grows under foreign domination and exploitation.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“It is incumbent on those Powers which are primarily responsible for the creation of the Jewish State to see to it that this State abides at least by the United Nations resolutions, those resolutions which have been so unfair and unjust to the Arabs. Peace in Palestine and the Middle East is a vain hope so long as Arab rights are ignored and so long as Arab honour and dignity are wounded. Any proposals by the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine that water down the United Nations decisions and whittle away Arab rights are doomed to failure. It is high time that the United Nations should rid itself of power politics. 107. The Arab world, extending from Casablanca to Basrah, consists of peace-loving and freedom-loving peoples.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“Eventually this uncontrolled immigration will develop into an explosive situation which will endanger the peace of the whole area. 106. But can the United Nations, which is responsible for this state of affairs, stop the danger from growing any further? It certainly cannot do so as long as the Zionists exercise great pressure in the capital cities of the world. The debates of the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem last August amply demonstrated the intention of the Zionist International to go on bringing pressure in world capitals at the expense of Arab lands and Arab rights. But what about peace and stability in the Middle East? Is it to be sacrificed and crushed in the grindstone of power politics and pressure groups? What is to be done is quite simple.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“It is regretted that honest and impartial United Nations officials are intimidated — one of them at least, a French official, was removed at the instance of the Jews because he would tell the whole truth. There is no doubt that the presence of the Jewish State is the greatest single factor that disturbs peace and stability in the Middle East; that, coupled with the status of the refugees, is enough to-create a serious situation of tension and hatred. Does the future look any brighter? While the decisions of this Assembly in 1948, 1949 and 1950 with regard to the right of Arab refugees to return to their homes remain completely disregarded by the Jewish State, hundreds of thousands of Jewish immigrants are pouring into Palestine to occupy the homes and farms which rightfully belongs to Arabs.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“There is no doubt that thus far this Organization has always shown weakness before Jewish aggression, stubbornness and disregard of United Nations resolutions in foiling to yield to Arab rights in Palestine. So far it has failed to do justice to the Arabs of Palestine. It is to be noted that Jewish aggression has never ceased, and during this very year Syrian villages have been bombed from the air by Jewish planes, the Jews have illegally started to change the course of the Jordan River, thus depriving the Kingdom of Jordan of its legitimate share of its waters; they constantly attack and shoot peaceful Arabs; destroy their homes and villages and evict them from their lands. 105.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“The worst example of this case is the tragedy of Palestine. It has now become abundantly clear that it was due to the influence of widespread propaganda of the “Zionist International” upon the Press, the cinema and the intellectual and political centres of the world that the infamous partition of Palestine was brought about. It is unbelievable that an institution designed to guard human rights and freedoms should have taken an illegal decision leading to the uprooting of one million Palestinian Arabs who were left destitute in a state of misery and suffering. This Organization cannot relinquish the responsibility for the deep wound inflicted on the Arab peoples, and the status of the refugees is a constant irritant of this wound.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“Such a move might lead to a reduction of the fears and suspicions prevailing, and eventually contribute to world peace and security. Leaving matters as they stand today with mental and material walls separating the two great camps will certainly lead to the final dissolution of this Organization and consequently to the destruction of all civilization. Were it not for these fears and suspicions, the war in Korea would have stopped at least a year ago. We still hope that wise counsel may prevail and that a cease-fire in Korea will take effect at the earliest possible date. 104. Another deadly enemy of this Organization is the existence of power politics and pressure groups. Once power politics prevail here at the expense of human rights and the clear principles of the Charter, peace and justice are in jeopardy.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“It is in this spirit that my delegation, along with the delegation of Syria submitted a draft resolution at the last session calling on the five permanent members of the Security Council to meet individually or collectively with the intention of settling together the many problems that endanger world peace today. It is to the regret of all peace-loving peoples, that the Conference of the Deputy Foreign Ministers in Paris failed to work out an agenda for a future meeting. We believe that all difficulties in the way of such a meeting should be overcome. We would certainly welcome the suggestion made here by His Excellency, the President of the French Republic, to the effect that the great leaders of the major Powers might meet here in Paris.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“This crisis of fear and suspicion calls for a fundamental analysis and basic treatment. For unless this psychosis is properly and sincerely treated, no proposal for disarmament — no matter how desirable — and no system of inspection of atomic or any other weapons will be possible. So long as there are fears and suspicions, mental and emotional barriers, this Organization and the whole world will suffer. One way to dispel these fears and to remove suspicions is to have free contact between the peoples concerned and to develop among them a spirit of tolerance and forbearance.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“These fears and suspicions are the cause of the cold war, they are at the basis of the race for armaments, and unless they are dispelled by reason, mutual confidence and common sense, humanity will face a new and devastating catastrophe. 103. My delegation listened last Thursday [335th and 336th meetings] to the distinguished representatives of the United States of America and of the Soviet Union, and tried in vain to find a common ground between the two representatives of the two conflicting camps. This is a situation which is saddening to us all. We had hoped to start this session of the General Assembly with greater readiness on the part of all concerned to show a spirit of conciliation and recognition of the fundamental truths and values of the United Nations Charter.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“Still the Security Council did twist the letter of the Charter in the admission of the fifty-ninth Member to this Assembly as it did in its decision this year on the Suez Canal question when two of the permanent members of the Security Council abstained. We say: abolish the veto! But if it is kept it should be observed conscientiously. Favouritism and power politics should not be permitted to influence the decisions of the United Nations, and yet they have almost rendered this Organization impotent, thus endangering the peace of the world. 102. Thirdly, probably the greatest crisis of this Organization and of the world at large emanates from the fears and suspicions between the major Powers.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“My delegation has always claimed that the veto is not applicable in the case of admission of new Members; for the function of the Security Council is to recommend admission and not to decide upon it. The decision for admission is a function of the General Assembly and not of the Security Council. 101. Besides, this unanimity rule itself has been circumvented and violated by the Security Council, by interpreting “abstention” to mean a concurrence of vote. If one abstains, one is not concurring in the vote either with those who say “yes” or with those who say “no”. One has to say “yes” or “no” to concur with one group or the other. To say nothing is not concurring.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“Secondly, a very obvious cause of the paralysis of this Organization comes from the rule of unanimity of the five permanent Members of the Security Council, the so-called veto. My delegation continues to claim that the principle of the veto is not consistent with the spirit of the Charter, which is based on the principle of the equality of nations big and small, strong and weak. While this principle is for the present accepted, it has been misapplied especially in the admission of new Members to this Organization. My delegation believes in the universality of the United Nations and considers that its membership should be made broad and inclusive. 100.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“The sanctity of home and property and the right of every individual to live in his own country and return to it whenever he desires are guaranteed in the Charter and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Nevertheless we find that about one million Arabs, Moslem and Christian alike, have been forcibly evicted from their homes in Palestine and prevented from returning to their country while outsiders are constantly pouring in and occupying their homes and making use of their property, thus creating difficulties which would stand in the way of their return. It seems to us that there is a grave inconsistency there. It is either that the Charter is so ambiguous that we need a new interpretation on a re-drafting of its provision, or that it is clear but we flout it in practice while claiming lo respect its fundamental principles. 99.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“In the first place, it seems that while we pay lip-service to the natural rights and freedoms of peoples, we are not always consistent in applying them. Human slavery on the individual level is universally prohibited throughout the civilized world, but a considerable part of the civilized world has not recognized the rightful aspirations of other peoples of independence and freedom; in other words, slavery is still being practised on a national level while it is prohibited on the individual level. 97. National sovereignty on the basis of equality is recognized in the Charter for all the Members of the United Nations: still we find that there exists treaties not based on the principle of equality between Members of the United Nations. 98.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“Otherwise, humanity will be crushed under the weight of the most destructive weapons which modern science can produce. 95. The lessons which wars and revolutions have taught mankind are clear. They consist of respect for the rights and freedoms of the individual as well as of nations. If the world learns these lessons, no more wars and no more revolutions will endanger peace and tranquillity. It is not enough, however, to learn these lessons, which are embodied in the Charter only in the abstract. We need to practise them and to apply them. It is in the application and practice of the principles of the Charter that we discover some difficulties and some failures in this Organization. We shall allude here only to a few of the causes of these failures. 96.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“Wars, both local and universal, have been waged simply because certain Powers and interests have not recognized the right of other people’s to freedom. It was to replace the destructive methods of war and revolutions by the peaceful methods of conciliation and evolution that the United Nations was established. Humanity has had enough of wars and bloodshed. It is time that we should be guided by intelligence and farsightedness instead of emotion and sentiment. It is time that the lessons of tolerance and fair play were learnt, so that the march of humanity towards its goals might be positive and progressive and not negative and destructive. Old habits of thought and action, selfishness, self-aggrandizement, domination and the exploitation of others must be effectively erased and replaced by co-operation, friendship and fair dealing.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“In this critical period of human history, it is a good omen that the sixth session of the General Assembly should meet in the beautiful city of Paris, one of the mainsprings of Western culture, where the ideas of liberty, fraternity and equality have found their most eloquent expression in modern times, and where the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was unanimously adopted by the Members of the United Nations. I have great pleasure in expressing, on behalf of my delegation, our thanks and appreciation to the French Government and people for the hospitality and welcome they have accorded to us all. 94. Humanity has long been struggling to realize the aims and ideals of the French Revolution as well as those of many other revolutions carried out in the interests of individual and national freedom and equality.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“He appealed to them to be true to the Charter in deed as well as in word, and pledged his country’s full co-operation.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“Palestine and the former Italian colonies were examples of a score of problems which required the careful consideration of the General Assembly. The guide in approaching all those problems should be the letter and spirit of the Charter, not power politics, expediency or secret machinations. Mr. al-Jamali urged Members not to think in terms of domination of other peoples and other lands, or of great Powers and small ones, or of developed and under-developed countries, but to look at the world as an integral whole and to give each section of it, irrespective of might, race, wealth, geographical situation, colour or religion, the treatment, sympathy and cooperation that it needed, applying one code of human rights, one code of international justice.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“The question of settling refugees who did not wish to return to Palestine might well be considered after territorial settlement, for in his opinion the question of refugees would be largely liquidated if a just territorial settlement were to be effected. 37. Another question which was a test of United Nations goodwill was that of Libya. According to the fundamental principles of the Charter, the valiant people of Libya, who had fought for nearly thirty years to win their freedom, deserved to be free and independent. The Iraqi delegation believed that the world still had a great reservoir of goodwill and sympathy for freedom-loving peoples and that the enforced mutilation of any country or people was not calculated to win the approbation of the civilized world. 38.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“If, on the other hand, the Jews, relying on the support which they could always secure in the way of charity and political influence from a great country like the United States, continued to flout United Nations decisions and to deny Arab rights to Palestine, the United Nations would have to face a great blow to its prestige. By a decision which had led to trouble and unrest in the most sensitive part of the modem world, it would have achieved the greatest blunder in its history. 36. Mr. al-Jamali reiterated that material help to the suffering refugees, no matter how vital and urgent, could never be a substitute for a just and speedy territorial settlement, which must be the first achievement.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“It was the responsibility of the United Nations to enforce its authority on the Jews to make them abandon aggressive intentions and to bring about a just territorial settlement. Otherwise there could be no peace in the Middle East and, in such circumstances, the seeds of future trouble had a mysterious way of growing. The settlement should be such as to minimize the agony of injustice created in Arab hearts. It was by that means and that means alone that faith in the United Nations could be partly re-established in the Middle East. 35.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“Left to themselves, the Jews had unlimited ambitions; the demands of their extremists of thirty years ago were the achievement of today. The Jews did not wish to abide by the plan of partition approved by the General Assembly in its resolution, 181 (II) of .29 November 1947. They had rejected the Bernadotte plan. During the truce and the armistice they had occupied territories which had not been inhabited by Jews nor allotted to them by the United Nations decision. Some Jewish elements were already speaking of enlarging the Jewish State to include Jordan. 33. According to the Washington, D. C., Star of 9 August 1949, Jewish ex-terrorists who had made Palestine too hot for British rule were confidently planning a new campaign, their objective being Jewish control of Jordan 34.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“The human side of the refugee problem, which needed the most generous and most immediate consideration by the United Nations, should not supersede a fair and quick territorial settlement. But how was a political settlement to be achieved? The Conciliation Commission appointed by the United Nations had not, unfortunately, succeeded in effecting a territorial settlement, mainly because the Jews were not willing to abide by the decisions of the United Nations. 32. The statement issued by the Israeli delegation, to which he had alluded, was proof of that. The truth was that unless and until the United Nations forced the Jews to recognize the Arabs’ rights in Palestine and to abide fully by its successive decisions there was no hope of a settlement.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“Iraq had not taken part, in the Lausanne conferences, partly because it believed that there was no room for bargaining or haggling about such rights, partly because it believed that no political settlement could be valid or lasting which did not recognize such rights, but mainly because it had so far seen no sign of goodwill or readiness on the part of Israel to keep its word or to recognize Arab rights in Palestine. It was an excellent idea for the United Nations to help in the economic development of the Arab world, but it was fatal to the very principles of the United Nations to make that development a price for dispossessing hundreds of thousands of innocent and peace-loving Arabs of the right to return to their homes. 31. There could be no lasting peace in the Middle East until a just territorial settlement was made in Palestine.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“Such a right could be denied by no one but an aggressor who had no intention to abide by the United Nations Charter or by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 30. The Conciliation Commission for Palestine, which had been working on behalf of' the United Nations in Lausanne, had created an. Economic Survey Mission for the Arab States and Palestine. It was to be hoped that it was not intended thereby to evade the issue of a political settlement which must recognize the full rights of all the Arabs of Palestine to their own homes there.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“The statement went on to speak of the attack as a “blessed miracle”, which had dealt the enemy a far greater blow than all the combined wisdom of the Hagana commanders could have done. 27. That was the answer to the Israeli statement in which it absolved itself from any responsibility towards the refugees and denied their rights to settle in their own land. 28. When Hitler’s atrocities had become known to the civilized world, all nations had been shocked. What was the attitude of the world towards the fact that the very people who had suffered at the hands of Hitler were applying his methods to the innocent Arabs of Palestine? 29. The Arabs of Palestine had a natural and legal right to their own homes in that country, a right recognized by all human, moral and legal codes of the civilized world.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“That was happening under the very eyes of the United Nations and as a result of its decision, which had inevitably led to those sad and tragic consequences. 26. It had been stated that the Arabs of Palestine had left their homes of their own choice or that the Arab States had caused the exodus. Nothing could be further from the truth, The fact was that a reign, of terror had been inflicted upon the Arabs when acts of complete annihilation of masses of Arabs, including women and children, had been committed by the Jews, That truth had been well described in a statement by the Stern Gang leader, reported in the Washington, D. C., Star of 9 August 1948, according to which it was universally recognized that it had been the Deir Yasin attack that had struck terror into the hearts of the Arab masses and caused their stampede.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“Unfortunately, the United Nations was faced at that very time with the task of relieving the miserable, starving, sick and homeless refugees. But who had brought that state of affairs about? Under what principles of human and political rights had those conditions been created? How could Arab rights to their own homes, which they had inherited in Palestine, be a matter of bargain and negotiation? It had been alleged that the Jews had not come to Palestine to dispossess the Arabs of their homes and that there was room in Palestine for Arabs and Jews alike; yet hundreds of thousands of Arabs were rendered homeless in neighbouring countries, while an average of one thousand Jews entered the country each day to replace them.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“He would not have touched upon the subject of Palestine at that juncture had it not been for a statement issued by the Israeli delegation on the opening day of the current session, in which it had claimed that Israel could never consent to be separated from Jerusalem, and that Jerusalem would never cease to be part of Israel. It had further stated that it would pursue its efforts to emphasize the paramount duty of the Arab States to help to resettle the refugees who, it claimed, had been uprooted and dispersed by the action of those States. 25. That statement showed clearly that Israel was denying the natural, legal and human rights of the Arabs to their own country, which they had inhabited for thousands of years, and was trying to make Members of the United Nations forget their obligation to guard those rights.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“The truth was that the United Nations was what its Member States made of it. It could be made a great force for peace and prosperity for the world if all the Member States wished it to be so. If they did not wish that, it could become impotent and stagnant. 23. No one could deny that great work was being achieved by the United Nations in the social, economic and cultural fields and in the formulation of human rights. In the political field, however, it was still lagging and sometimes erring. The blunt truth was that the great Powers had not so far been able to make the Organization into a “united nations". There were signs of disunity. As for the smaller nations, the bitter fact was that the people of Iraq felt greatly disappointed in what the United Nations had so far effected in Palestine. 24.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“Many had not been altogether satisfied with the formulation of the Charter, especially with the unanimity rule whereby the five great Powers in the Security Council controlled the right of recommendation and investigation — a weakness in the Charter which was becoming recognized more and more by all sides except the USSR and the other Members in the Soviet group. Some Members, including Iraq, had wanted the Chapters on Trusteeship to be more clear and positive about the future independence of the dependent Territories. Nevertheless, they had been pleased with the Charter. It was the best that could be achieved; it was the best possible under the circumstances. 22- It could be asked, however, whether the United Nations had so far fulfilled the hopes of the world. What were some of the points of its strength and weakness?”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“For reasons well known to all, however, that world structure had crumbled beneath the weight of power politics and the desire for domination which had led to the Second World War. It was during that second war that the Atlantic Charter had been promulgated and that President Roosevelt had spoken of the Four Freedoms. The idea of the United Nations had been born. Those representatives who had been at San Francisco would remember the hard work, coupled with deep faith and bright hope, which had brought the United Nations Charter into being.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“Mr. al-Jamali observed that in one generation the world had suffered the painful consequences of two world wars. The state of mind of the majority of mankind was still one of uncertainty, hopelessness and confusion. Man had begun to lose faith in himself and his fellow man. To cure those human ills, far-sighted statesmen like Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt had set a new moral and political pattern in international relations. President Wilson’s Fourteen Points were well known; the principles underlying them constituted some of the most fundamental rules for settling international disputes. 21. After the First World War, the world had put its faith in the League of Nations, in the Permanent Court of International Justice, and in open diplomacy and parliamentary methods.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)