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Kasim

THE RECORD WRITES THIS SPEAKER AS KASIM

lines on the record: 154
first: 1980-09-24
most recent: 1990-09-24
sittings or episodes: 5
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“There is another conflict threatening the stability and security of the region in which we live, namely, the Iraqi-Iranian war that has been raging for about two years. This causes Jordan pain and grief because it involves two Islamic States. Jordan, which respects the Charter and international law and accepts its national responsibilities, supports its sister Iraq in its defence of its national territory and its legitimate rights on its land and waters. Jordan adds its voice to that of the international community in asking the Islamic Republic of Iran to respond positively to Security Council resolutions 479 (1980), 514 (1982) and 522 (1982), as well as to the many mediation efforts aimed at ending the war between the two neighbouring countries.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Furthermore, Jordan's role was actively pursued in co-operation with sister Arab States, at the Twelfth Arab Summit Conference held in Fez in September, in the formulation of a collect e Arab peace initiative compatible with what the international community has resolved should be the framework for peace. We call upon the international community to support this initiative and to strive resolutely to give effect to it since it offers an historical opportunity which has gained world-wide acceptable, with only Israel dissenting. It is a unique opportunity which must be seized by everyone in order to ensure a just peace and a comprehensive settlement of this whose question, which has threatened international security and the security of the region for the pas: 34 years. 63.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“In contradistinction to these Israeli policies, which are based on the rejection of peace and attempts to achieve hegemony over the region, there is sincere Jordanian and Arab determination to achieve a just peace which would guarantee rights and ensure security and stability in the region. Jordan accepted Security Council resolution 242 (1967) and has used its influence to persuade others to accept it and support its implementation. Jordan has also supported efforts and initiatives formulated both within and outside the United Nations to ensure the implementation of that resolution and the achievement of a comprehensive settlement, in accordance with universally agreed principles. 62.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“These include the withdrawal of Israel from all the Arab territories occupied since the June 1967 aggression, the return of the Arab City of Jerusalem to Arab sovereignty, and recognition of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian Arab people, including its right to self-determination in conditions of total freedom on Palestinian national soil. Israel has subverted all the international efforts aimed at the attainment of this goal. The most recent example of this was its outright rejection of the ideas put forward by President Reagan although they could not possibly be considered as prejudicing Israel's security. 61.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The international community must also compel the aggressor to respect the principles of international law and good faith in relations among nations, if we are truly committed to the purposes and principles of the Charter and to safeguarding the region and the world as a whole from the serious consequences of allowing the present situation to continue. 60. The international community, both within the United Nations and outside it, has defined the necessary bases for the achievement of a just, lasting and comprehensive peace in the region.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Israel has only been encouraged by the launching of the two invasions to carry out further aggression. We warn the international community of the seriousness of Israel's premeditated plans and intentions regarding the Arab States. It is determined to turn its back on the principles on which a just peace could be achieved. We also warn it against Israel's efforts to impose a sham solution of its own making, the preparations for which have already been initiated in declarations by its leaders that a solution to the Palestinian problem lies outside Palestinian national soil. 59. The international community must take a firm and decisive stand in confronting these ominous plans. It most prevents the aggressor from reaping the fruits of its aggression.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Israel was encouraged to launch its invasion by the meek reaction to its earlier invasion of southern Lebanon in March 1978 and its ability to impose its own conditions for a partial withdrawal. Those conditions included the creation of a buffer zone in south Lebanon under the control of mercenaries accountable to its will. When Israel saw that that dangerous precedent had been tolerated by the inter-national community, it embarked upon its further invasion of Lebanon, which has continued for the past several months. At the beginning of the invasion it declared that its objective was to secure a cordon sanitaire, the depth of which it would decide at will, on the pretext of an alleged need to ensure the security of its citizens in the northern area. 58.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“It has been the consistent pattern that whenever there appear to be indications on the horizon of efforts by the international community to achieve a just. comprehensive and lasting solution to the question of Palestine and the conflict in the Middle East Israel resorts to a pre-emptive military strike in order to occupy more Arab lands in order to thwart any such international efforts and compel the world to divert its endeavours towards dealing with the complexities resulting from the faits accomplish newly created by Israel's aggression. 57. Hence Israel's invasion of Lebanon and its attempts to manipulate Lebanon's political situation and internal affairs in a manner which would serve its objective of spreading its hegemony over the region.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Israel expanded since the Partition Plan of 29 November 1947 going beyond the Armistice Agreement of 1949 and the cease-fire lines of 1967 to what we see at present in Lebanon shows that Israel is in no need of security. Israel has annexed Arab Jerusalem and the Golan Heights; it has established Israeli settlements; it bombed Iraqi, peaceful nuclear installations: and, it has started to build a canal from the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean. Such an expansionist Israel which has defined its perceived area of security as encompassing all the lands from Pakistan in the East and North Africa in the West is suffering from an abundance of security, not from a lack of it. That is all too dear when we take into account Israel military nuclear capability which was documented in the Secretary-General's report at the preceding session. 56.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“We have seen that the greater Israel's military power grows the more obdurate and inflexible its policies become. It stretches its concept of security to include aggression against the neighbouring Arab States. Israel's doctrine of security has become synonymous with aggression expansion and occupation. It reached unprecedented dimensions recently with the massacre of innocent civilians. The abominable events in Lebanon have revealed to the whole world and in particular to the friends of Israel. Israel's true face and have unmasked the falsehood of its security pretexts. 55. Israel's definition of its security is but a slogan which it uses to cover up its continuing expansion at the expense 'of Arab territories and rights.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“When the Security Council was prevented from taking action in conformity with its established practice of linking a cease-fire with the imperative demand for complete withdrawal from all the occupied territories, Israel exploited that in order to reap the fruits of its aggression by continuing its occupation of Arab territories and refusing to withdraw from them. Moreover, Israel refused to implement Security Council resolution 242 (1967) which called upon it to withdraw completely from those territories. . 53.' Israel 'has persistently sought to cover up its defiance under the guise of its security. Its supporters have sought to justify their massive assistance to it on the ground that a secure Israel would be more willing to make concessions in exchange for peace. Events have proved the fallacy of that claim. 54.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“in the vain hope' that such massacres will erase from the consciousness of the Palestinian people their yearning to return to their homeland in Palestine. and that they will abandon that homeland to strangers who falsely claim they have a better right to it than its legitimate owners. 52. Israel's ability to persist in its aggressive expansionist policies of which the most recent manifestation is the victimization of Lebanon can be traced back specifically to the time when the whole world and particularly those great Powers upon which devolves the responsibility for preserving peace and security stood idly by or ignored Israel's aggression in June 1967. At that grave moment a fundamental deviation occurred in the international collective security system.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“It laid siege to Beirut devastating large parts of it with unparalleled barbarism by incessant land sea and air bombardment. which claimed thousands of innocent victims in dead and wounded. 50. One of the most heinous massacres in history was perpetrated against unarmed civilians. foremost among whom were women old people and children. The conscience of humanity is still overwhelmed with revulsion anger and abhorrence at dimensions of this barbaric massacre which has its precedent in earlier Israeli massacres innocent Palestinians at Deir Yassin, Qibya and Kafr Qasim. 51. The main objective of these repeated massacres has invariably been to terrorize and uproot the Palestinian people and to silence them.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The most glaring example of what I, have just described is to be found in the Middle East, where the situation is characterized by the 'use of force and the imposition of occupation. Hegemony and faits accomplis to which Israel has resorted persistently, without being subjected to the deterrent action that would force it to submit to the international will and law.. 49. Israel occupied the greater part of Palestine in 1948 and in 1967 it completed the occupation of the remainder. in addition to parts of other Arab lands. In the past few months it has occupied large areas of the sister country of Lebanon rendering homeless and displacing scores of thousands of its civilian population. Israel has destroyed many of Lebanon's towns and villages.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“It has also led all those countries that observe the Charter and support international law to lose faith and confidence that their legitimate quest for security and just solutions to their problems can be pursued within the framework of the existing international ordering the absence of such assured security, those Member States have found themselves impelled to scramble .for' arms and divert large parts of their limited resources for the acquisition of the necessary means of self-defence in confronting the policies of hegemony and domination being pursued by the more powerful States. We must state that such a development would never have taken place if the major Powers to which the Charter entrusted the maintenance of world peace and security. ~ad shouldered their solemn responsibilities and duties with firmness and sincerity. 48.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“to condone the aggression or even to obstruct the application against the aggressor of the sanctions fm' which the Charter provides. 47. That approach. with its concomitant weakening of the united Nations has led to the dangerous situation that the world finds itself in today.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“That system has been subverted by the prevailing tendency to use force under different pretexts, whether it be a warped concept of security or alleged' self-defence. All those pretexts are actually aimed at imposing hegemony and achieving the parochial interests of those who have the force and the means of using it. Thus we see the blatant military occupation, the colonization of occupied land~. the destruction of ,property and cities and interference in .and manipulation of the internal affairs of other States with a view to serving the interests and aims of the aggressor. 46. It is profoundly disturbing that instead of taking immediate and decisive action to deter aggressors assist their victims and prevent the fruits of aggression being reaped some of the major Powers choose to stand idly by.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“amounting as the Secretary-General said in his report to have brought the world perilously near to a' new international anarchy. As a result of this development the United Nations has been rendered incapable of contributing lo the solution of international conflicts. The Security Council whose principal duty under the Charter is the maintenance of international peace and security has been immobilized and prevented from performing its -ask. Its functions have been confined to issuing resolutions which remain unimplemented. 45. Despite the fact that the Charter has laid down a system of collective security in the world.ï we note that the principles enshrined in the Charter for regulating relations between States have been flouted.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“We also find that the States entrusted by the Charter of the United Nations with a special responsibility for maintaining international peace and security have pursued policies which are at variance with that responsibility. Some of them have resorted to the use of force while others have condoned the fact that States have committed acts of aggression and intervention in the affairs of other States. 43. The failure of those States to put an end to the military option and the use of force and their condoning of the use of force by others have led to the prevalence of an aggressive attitude in relations between States and encouraged more States to take the same course. 44. As a logical and ineluctable corollary of this development, the international situation has deteriorated most seriously.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“A careful study of the agenda of this session and the grave issues contained therein. which have serious implications for world peace and security confirms the bleak foreboding which the Secretary-General has clearly and forcefully expressed in his report. 41. Our world today is beset on all sides by dangers resulting from the predominance of the policies of the use of force or the threat of the use of force: instead of having recourse to, peacefulï means of 'settling problems among nations. This tendency has been intensified by a continuing and relentless arms, race. the development and acquisition of the most .sophisticated means of mass destruction and the allocation by many States of vast human and material resources to those ends. ' 42.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Mr. President. it gives me great pleasure to convey to you in the name of the delegation of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. our warm congratulations on your election to your high office. We have full confidence that your experience and competence will contribute effectively towards a successful out-come to this session. I should also like to pay a tribute to your predecessor Mr. Kittani who presided over the proceedings of the thirty-sixth session most effectively for which we thank him. I wish to pay a particular tribute to the persistent efforts of the Secretary-General to increase the opportunities for peace and to alleviate the tensions that prevail in many parts of the world. My delegation takes this opportunity to express its full support for those efforts and to pledge its full co-operation with him. 40.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“261. Our immediate and overriding concern is to stop the bloodshed and destruction and to accord to each side its rightful due, on the basis of international legitimacy, upon which the Charter of the United Nations rests.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“It is our hope that the Islamic Republic of Iran will respond positively to the Iraqi initiative for a cease-fire, which would provide a propitious atmosphere for achieving a just settlement based on good-neighbourly relationships and non-interference in the internal affairs of States. 259. We wish to take this opportunity to express to President Zia-ul-Haq of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan our gratitude and appreciation for his goodwill efforts on behalf of the Islamic Conference, and our hope that these efforts will be brought to fruition in the achievement of a just and honourable solution. 260. I should also like to pay a tribute to the efforts of Mr. Agha Shahi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, and to Mr. Habib Al-Shatti, Secretary-General of the Islamic Conference, for their efforts to achieve a solution of this conflict.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“Jordan, whose adherence to resuscitating the Islamic identity is a cardinal principle of its policy, views Islamic solidarity as a vehicle for consolidating Islamic principles and values. This policy makes a salutary and effective contribution to the preservation of international peace and security. 258. Jordan, inspired by its fidelity to the Charter of the United Nations and to the norms of international law and in its unequivocal national commitment, stands by the sister State of Iraq in the latter's defence of its national soil and legitimate Arab rights.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“The Government of Jordan, as part of its efforts towards rectifying the wrongs that are still being perpetrated against Palestine and its people and as a manifestation of its commitment to international legitimacy, has, following consultations with its brethren, decided to request the General Assembly to seek an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice concerning the Israeli practices and the legal status of the occupied Arab territories, whose character Israel is striving to obliterate, whose history is being assiduously distorted and whose occupation Israel is bent on consolidating by murder, annexation, Judaization and colonization. 257. Jordan, as an Arab and Islamic country, is deeply pained by the fratricidal events that are currently occurring in our region between two neighbourly Islamic States.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“Jordan considers the Venice Declaration issued on 13 June this year by the European Community as reflecting a positive and responsible change which we hope will be further developed and articulated until it meets the aspirations of the Arab peoples and all peace-loving States. Europe's move on the correct path and its readiness to participate more actively towards a solution of the question of Palestine and the Middle East are a tangible demonstration of the European Community's heightened awareness of its international responsibilities in the cause of peace and in sparing the region the scourge of war, which will not be confined to the area but might threaten the world in its entirety. 256.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“The Camp David framework has brought the region nearer to the perils of war, contrary to its declared purpose of leading the region in the direction of peace, for it has given Israel the opportunity to direct all its military forces against the other Arab fronts with a view to imposing its military dominance over them. Needless to say, it has also enabled Israel to consolidate its occupation and to impose the policy of the fait accompli. 254. The positive and categorical resolutions adopted by the non-aligned movement, the Islamic Conference and the OAU and all other peace-loving States Members of the United Nations—whether through their own regional conferences or through their positions at the General Assembly—constitute the basic pillar in support of our legitimate and just rights. 255.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“The best evidence of the failure of the Camp David agreements in tackling the question of peace—quite apart from its perpetuation of Israel's policy of the fait accompli and of separate agreements—is that the signatories to the framework agreements are suffering today a loss of direction. Some of those signatories have conceded that they have reached an impasse. That Camp David framework has encouraged Israel to ignore the General Assembly resolutions and the Security Council decisions, which are presumed to be binding upon all States.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“Jordan furthermore regards the Camp David agreements as infringing the basic elements accepted by the international community for any comprehensive and just settlement, elements to which the Arab leaders committed themselves at their Summit Conference, held at Baghdad in November 1978, where they laid down the minimum requirements for such a settlement: first, total Israeli withdrawal from the Arab territories occupied in 1967; secondly, the return of Arab Jerusalem to Arab sovereignty; and thirdly, recognition of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination in their land and their national territory, under the leadership of the PLO. 253.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“Just as we have reacted positively and clearly to every genuine effort which might contribute to a just and comprehensive settlement of the question of Palestine and the situation in the Middle East, so we have reacted clearly and vehemently against the Camp David accords because this transaction runs counter to the vital rights and interests of all the parties concerned, with the exception of Israel. 251. The framework of the Camp David agreements totally ignores the core of the issue, save for short-sighted and partial solutions; it repudiates the most elementary of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people. 252.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“Jordan's commitment to the Palestine cause has been expressed in its rejection of unjust resolutions which accorded legitimacy to the Zionist entity at the expense of the Palestinian people, in conditions which are all too familiar to this Assembly. 249. Jordan's organic association with the Palestinian cause and its ramifications has always been clear-cut in its vision and its basic principles. Jordan has given clear support to all international efforts pertaining to the question of Palestine and the situation in the Middle East. Jordan has taken a positive attitude, subject to its declared principles, towards the various efforts aimed at achieving a just and comprehensive peace within an acceptable formula under which the international community could shoulder its responsibility for achieving a solution. 250.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“The Act of Unity unequivocally attests to Jordan's support for the historic rights of the Palestinian people and the preservation of all Palestinian rights, in any final settlement, in accordance with national aspirations, international justice and the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination. 248. Inspired by its Arab national commitment, the Jordanian citizen has shared with his brethren whom aggression has dispersed an honourable life, his home, his school and also the trenches. Jordan has also shouldered and continues to shoulder the consequences of a human and a political issue which was created by unjust and misguided international action.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“The Knesset enactment has made the search for comprehensive and just peace virtually impossible. Moreover, it is Israel's declared intention to annex the occupied Golan Heights. 246. Jordan, by virtue of its geographical location and its historical and national commitment to the Palestinian cause and the rights of its people, has faced the tragedy of Palestine with the optimum degree of responsibility. While the Palestinian people are to this day living victims of deprivation and dispersal from their homeland, Jordan has experienced the consequences of this human tragedy in its manifold political, military and economic dimensions. 247. The Act of Unity between the Palestinian West Bank and Jordan of 24 April 1950 was but an expression of this national commitment.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“It has simultaneously implemented its ideology of expansion and of exclusivism, in which the legitimate Palestinian presence in Palestine and the Arab region around it is regarded as a human and material barrier which must be destroyed and overcome to enable Israel to achieve its long-standing plans to consolidate its hold on the lands which it occupied by means of colonization and expulsion of the inhabitants, achieved through all military and political forms of terrorism. 244. In describing the situation which prevails to this Assembly, Jordan warns that its continuance will have a great bearing on international peace and security. 245. Israel's declaration of Holy Jerusalem as its unified capital, in defiance of Security Council resolution 478(1980) of 20 August last, is the climax of these heedless and dangerous illegal policies.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“It has also been reflected in the latest Knesset resolution declaring the Holy City of Jerusalem as the unified capital of Israel. It is likewise manifested in the expenditure of the equivalent of $3 billion, or roughly 15 per cent of Israel's annual budget, for the construction of new settlements, in addition to supporting expenditures to sustain those colonies. 243. Israel's massive military build-up in consequence of the material, military and moral support of some Powers, and specifically of the United States of America, has created a security imbalance in the region and has enabled Israel to achieve predominance. In consequence, Israel has unabashedly persisted in its defiance of the international will and in refusing to implement the resolutions of the General Assembly and the Security Council.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“We subscribe to the Secretary-General's assessment that the situation in the Middle East continues to be the central issue in the international situation and is of paramount importance to the political and economic stability of the world. 242. Arab efforts have therefore been directed towards the achievement of a just and comprehensive peace in the region, within a framework acceptable to the international community. On the other hand, we find Israeli practices which are prompted by a mentality based on aggression, hegemony and expansion. This was clearly asserted in the statement by Israel's former Minister for Foreign Affairs, General Moshe Dayan, in which he said that his connotation of security for Israel was that its limit was coterminous with the farthest spot on which an Israeli soldier stood.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“The numerous reports issued by fact-finding commissions of the Security Council, the General Assembly and many other bodies have revealed the ideological and behavioural practices which dominate the Israeli mentality and which match in magnitude the ugly practices of the racist South African regime in its policy of apartheid. 240. It is incumbent on us to warn of the grave consequences which will ensue from the existing collaboration between the two racist regimes of Israel and South Africa in the political, cultural, economic and military fields. The collaboration has extended to the nuclear field in the exchange of uranium and technical know-how. Its most telling manifestation has been the combined atomic explosion in the Indian Ocean, which poses a threat to international peace and security. 241.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“The denial of fundamental Palestinian rights is all the more obnoxious as that denial comes from a State which had misguided the world into thinking that it was an oasis of democracy. It had also for a while deceived public opinion in the West into thinking that it was a centre of freedom and justice in the Middle East. 239. The Western world, weighed down by a guilty conscience, has for some time been led to believe that Israel must be created, sustained and consolidated to atone for the misdeeds of the Nazis against the Jews. It is incredible that Israel itself, which has incessantly reminded the world that the Jews were among the victims of Nazism, should today be practising the ugliest forms of fascism and racism against the Palestinian people.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“Notwithstanding our disappointment over the failure to achieve consensus in the interrelated field of global negotiations, we hope that negotiations concerning the differences between the developed and the developing countries will be resumed in the course of the current session. 236. Inspired by its Arab and Islamic legacy, Jordan ardently believes in human rights as a lofty and all- encompassing goal which must be attained without any discrimination. It should be kept apart from varying ideological struggles. It is therefore deeply dismaying to see the cause of human rights practised selectively. 237. The deprivation of a whole people, the Palestinian people, of their most fundamental right to self- determination in their homeland is therefore a matter which evokes perplexity and deep concern. 238.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“We have followed with keen attention the proceedings of the eleventh special session, devoted to development and international economic co-operation, which concluded its work on 15 September last. We have also considered with the utmost attention the recommendations issued by that special session. We wish to express Jordan's deep satisfaction that the emergency aid to the least developed countries, previously proposed by the Secretary-General, was unanimously approved. We also noted with satisfaction the consensus among Member States regarding the imperative need to proceed forthwith with the adoption of the new International Development Strategy for the Third United Nations Development Decade. 235.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“We believe that the new international economic order must be directed to ensure coherent and well balanced food security for the whole international community. To that end, modern technology should be directed towards arresting the problems of desertification, reclamation of unused lands and development of water resources. 233. Jordan attaches considerable importance to regional co-operation among developing countries and is contributing to its application in accordance with the recommendations of the special session of the Arab Economic and Social Council which met at Amman on 6 July this year. Jordan stresses the imperative need to apply such regional cooperation in various other geographical regions as complementary to and not as a substitute for international co-operation. 234.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“Drought and desertification are menacing other societies in Africa and Asia. 230. In spite of the alarming magnitude of the situation, it has failed to galvanize adequately the political wills of the developed countries to an extent commensurate with the magnitude of the challenges. It has failed to lay down new moral imperatives based on justice, equity and solidarity among nations. 231. My delegation believes that the United Nations has a central role to play in a basic restructuring of the existing international economic order and the establishment of a new one. We also believe that there should be a moral order to guide relations between the developed and the developing countries. It is also our conviction that international trade is impaired because of the unjust principles on which GATT is based. 232.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“The tragedy which has befallen its people and the effectiveness of the role of the United Nations there have become an acid test of the extent of our adherence to the principles of the Charter. 229. One of the most important and urgent issues confronting the international community is the establishment of a new economic order, on a more just and equitable basis, to supplant an inherited and outdated economic system which was created under conditions different from those which exist today. The international economic order has reached a stage of crisis where our aspirations to find appropriate solutions can only be described as a struggle for the survival of the human race, particularly in the least developed parts of the world. Abject poverty, ignorance and disease are becoming an increasing threat to whole societies.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“Jordan is deeply concerned about the dangers of nuclear proliferation and fully supports the United Nations efforts in the field of non-proliferation. In that context it is our earnest hope that the world Organization will succeed in guaranteeing that the Middle East remains a nuclear-free zone. This has assumed greater urgency since the development of a nuclear arsenal at its centre, in Israel, which still believes that hegemony, expansion and aggression are the overriding principles of its policy. That is amply demonstrated in the occupied Arab territories; it is also exemplified in the aggression against Lebanon's sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“The negotiations on the limitation of strategic weapons and the Helsinki Final Act" are steps which, we hope, will transform relations among nations from "power politics" to wider levels of detente which will find concrete expression in scientific, cultural, economic and human cooperation. 227. It is our earnest hope that the second review session of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, to be held at Madrid, will provide a new opportunity to achieve a modus vivendi for consolidating co-operation and peaceful co-existence in other parts of the world. This is particularly the case as Europe is presently called upon to play its rightful role in building international peace and security and also to promote balanced relations between the two superpowers. 228.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“The enormity of this tragic situation is illustrated by the fact that the arms race has imposed upon the world the expenditure of more than $500 billion in 1980. A sizeable proportion of that wasteful expenditure has been borne by the countries of the third world. The denial to the poor countries of the third world of a propitious atmosphere for concentrating on internal development and their propulsion into the arena of international conflict which threatens their very existence have forced them to focus their primary energies on the paramount issue of survival. 226. Disarmament is imperative to the peace and security of the world.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“The accelerating arms race and the ever-increasing threat of destructive wars have been and continue to be the nightmare which overshadows the fate and future of all peoples. That is the stark reality, in spite of the bitter experiences we have passed through and notwithstanding all the decisions and resolutions which the United Nations has adopted and which reject the use of force and advocate peaceful means for the settlement of international conflicts. 224. The policy of dividing the world into spheres of influence has created international tensions which have compelled the countries of the third world to seek the protection of their national interests by arming themselves inordinately, quantitatively and qualitatively, beyond their means and at the cost of undermining their own progress and economic and social betterment. 225.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“The first is based on the free expression of the views of the majority of Member States on questions relating to peace and the right of all peoples to self-determination; the second is based on power politics and the imposition of faits accomplis, which some States continue to practise in the mistaken belief that such a course is the best way to solve conflicts. 222. In spite of the gravity of the situation, our faith in the collective judgement of that majority and the moral weight it brings to bear upon the work of the United Nations will have an increasing impact on the role of the Organization in preserving world peace and the political, economic and social advancement of mankind. 223.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“In the words of the Secretary-General: "It is rightly a matter of general concern that the decisions of the Security Council and the resolutions of the General Assembly often go unheeded, so that problems which should have been brought under control persist, proliferate and pose continual threats to international peace.'' 220. We also agree with his comment that "the will of the majority in the United Nations has too often been flouted and that the reasonable demands of its resolutions have been ignored". 221. This serious difference in the visualizing of international issues indicates two diametrically contradictory positions.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“The report of the Secretary-General on the work of the United Nations deserves our highest commendation. It is an objective appraisal of the current world situation and of the achievements in and the obstacles that impede progress in the political and economic fields. 218. The substantial progress and agreement achieved at the ninth session of the Third Conference on the Law of the Sea, held last August, concerning the law of the sea and the exploitation of the resources of the seas and the oceans are truly a landmark in the annals of the United Nations. 219. My Government shares the Secretary-General's concern, reflected in his report, pertaining to the important issues of which the United Nations is seized.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)