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IENG SARY

lines on the record: 222
first: 1976-09-24
most recent: 1981-09-24
sittings or episodes: 4
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“It is the duty of our people to defend with determination their independence, national sovereignty, their territorial integrity and their inalienable right to determine their own destiny for which they have fought so hard and made so many sacrifices. At the same time Democratic Kampuchea is continuing to mobilize its efforts to establish and maintain with its neighbors, and indeed with all other countries in the world, close relations of friendship based upon strict mutual respect for independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, and the principle of equality and mutual advantage. Democratic Kampuchea never interferes in the internal affairs of other countries. It scrupulously respects the sovereign right of every country to decide itself on its own business without any foreign intervention. 61.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“This is a strategic choice, not subject to fluctuations of the hour, because it is in keeping with the aspirations of our people, their culture, their history and the geographic situation of our country. Itself a non-aligned country, Democratic Kampuchea respects and scrupulously applies the principles of non-alignment which are themselves in keeping with the fundamental principles laid down in the United Nations Charter. It is not a member of any alliance or any regional association. It opposes the establishment of foreign military bases on its territory and all forms of intervention and interference in its internal affairs.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“We are happy to be able once again to express here to all these friendly countries and peoples the profound gratitude of our people and Government. 60. Our people have always wished to live in peace and liberty, within the frontiers of their country, so as to build a society in keeping with their profound aspirations. Although they have been the victims of aggression, domination and subjugation for so many centuries and although a large area of their national territory was amputated, our people have no feeling of contempt or hostility or any ambitious designs of intervention, aggression or expansion with regard to any people or any country. In its external relations, Democratic Kampuchea is continuing to pursue a policy of independence, peace, neutrality and non-alignment.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“We are continuing to solve our problems successfully so that we may build an independent economy, without which true political independence cannot exist. 58. In this new stage of their struggle our people are continuing to hold firmly to the same political line which led them to the historic victory of 17 April 1975. This is the line of independence, sovereignty and self-reliance. We are continuing with enthusiasm and in. national unity to display the creative spirit, determination and revolutionary vigilance. 59. Many friendly peoples and countries have given us their support and encouragement in pursuing this course. They have given us support and assistance which have helped us to strengthen our independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to tighten the links of friendship and solidarity between our peoples and countries.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“Thanks to our continuous revolutionary vigilance and tight unity, our nation, our people and our army have inflicted upon them some severe defeats but, guided by their aggressiveness and blinded by their vaulting ambition, the American imperialists, their lackeys and other reactionary forces are unwilling to learn the lessons of their defeats, and persist in pursuing their criminal activities. There can be no doubt that our people and revolutionary armed forces will inflict upon them, in all independence and sovereignty, further new and ignominious defeats. 57. After the war we resolved the problems raised by economic rehabilitation in the agricultural, cottage industry, industrial and social fields as and when they arose. In particular we have solved once and for all the problem of food. The people have no need to worry about famine.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“There is security throughout our territory; however, our own experience and that of other revolutions in the world have taught us that after their defeat, the American imperialists, lackeys and other reactionary forces continue relentlessly to oppose our country, our people and our revolution. Since it is impossible, if not difficult, for them to attack us openly from the outside they are striving to rally the rump of the forces of perfidy in order to carry out actions of subversion, provocation, division and undermining inside our country, and also to intervene in our internal affairs.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“Our nation and people made all these grave sacrifices for love of country, for the liberation of the country and their own liberation, for their honor and national dignity, democracy, peace and territorial integrity, and also for the sake of solidarity with the peoples of the world, the national liberation and democratic movements, and for peace in the world. 55. It is for the same reasons that immediately after liberation our people throughout the country engaged in a vast and intensive revolutionary mass movement to perform two fundamental tasks: the defense and building of the country. 56. Since liberation, we have successfully defended and consolidated the gains of the revolution.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“More than a million inhabitants were killed or wounded, or about 13 per cent of the total population. The economy was ruined. The means of production were in large part destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of oxen and buffaloes so necessary for agricultural work were killed. Factories, plantations, fields, rice paddies, forests were destroyed to a proportion of from 70 to 80 per cent. From 60 to 80 per cent of the lines of communication were destroyed: bridges, roads, railways, ports and so on. Hundreds of villages and urban centers were razed to the ground and struck off the map, 54.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“Our people recovered their dignity and henceforth are keeping firmly in their own hands their own destiny in total independence and sovereignty. 52. On 17 April 1975 we witnessed the victory of the unswerving solidarity of the non-aligned countries and peoples in the third world with the struggle of the people of Kampuchea, as well as the solidarity of all peoples in the world who love peace and justice, including the people of the United States, its young people and progressive, peace-loving political leaders. It was the victory of the policy of independence, peace and non-alignment against the policy of domination, oppression, exploitation, intervention and aggression. 53. In order to win this historic victory, our nation and people had to make immense sacrifices.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“They have never accepted the yoke of the colonialist and neo-colonialist system, a yoke imposed upon them for more than a century and against which, from the very beginning, they waged a long, difficult, stubborn and complicated struggle in all respects, be it political, military or diplomatic, winning successive victories until they achieved total victory over the way of aggression of American imperialism, on 17 April 1975. For the nation and people of Kampuchea, this glorious victory had far-reaching historical consequences because it marked their total and final liberation from imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism and all other forms of domination and exploitation. Our nation in its entirety recovered its soul and its identity.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“The emergence of many third world independent States, the energy and vitality of the non- aligned movement, have changed the face of the world, which no longer resembles that which had been wrought by the rich major Powers at the time when the United Nations was founded, a time when international relations of domination and dependence were still unquestioned. 51. The people of Kampuchea have not held aloof from the upheavals in the world. They have participated actively, along with all other peoples, in the common struggle against imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism, in order to free themselves from all forms of domination, oppression and exploitation.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“The Third Ministerial Meeting of the Group of 77 at Manila, the fourth session of UNCTAD at Nairobi and, more recently, the Conference on Economic Co-operation among Developing Countries at Mexico City, demonstrate the dynamism and solidarity of the Group of 77 in its efforts to bring about a new international economic order. 50. The voice of the non-aligned countries and the third world has thus become a voice which the world community must heed in all its debates and in its search for solutions to international problems.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“In recent years,, the non-aligned movement has taken some important initiatives for a more just and realistic concept of relations among peoples and nations. The convening of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea was done at the suggestion of the Third Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held at Lusaka in September 1970. The struggle for the establishment of a new international economic order was started by the Fourth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries at Algiers in September 1973, which took the initiative of asking the United Nations to convene the sixth and seventh special sessions of the General Assembly.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“The principles of non-alignment, imbued as they are with justice and equality, express the deep aspirations and the determination of the third world countries which include almost three quarters of the population of our planet and constitute the majority of member States in our international community. Thanks to the persistent efforts of the non-aligned movement, these principles have now come to be accepted by the rest of the world. 49. The cohesiveness of the non-aligned countries, based upon these principles and upon the clear-cut objectives of their struggle, their determined actions, based upon the solidarity of the third world countries forming the Group of 77, constitute a powerful force.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“That movement, born of the stubborn refusal to embrace the policy of blocs and the imperative need for the newly independent States to preserve and strengthen their dearly bought freedom and sovereignty against the ambitions, the greed and the expansionist designs of the rich major Powers, has once again demonstrated its vitality and dynamism at the Colombo Conference. Together with all the other forces of the third world and the peace-loving and justice-loving forces throughout the world, that movement has become a current of unprecedented size and power which is shaking the very foundations of a world which is undergoing wholesale change.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“Marked by the same vicissitudes of the same colonial past and joined by common aspirations and interests, these independent States of the third world, with one accord, reject out-moded international relations based on inequality and dependence. They are calling vigorously for the establishment of new relations between peoples and nations, more in keeping with the significant changes which have occurred in the world and based upon the principles of mutual respect for independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, equality, mutual advantage, non-interference in the internal affairs of other States, and the right of every people to conduct its own affairs. 48. These are the principles of the non-aligned movement.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“From the ruins of colonialism have emerged scores of new independent States which have undertaken with determination to struggle, protect and consolidate their political and economic independence, their sovereignty and their territorial integrity against all acts of domination, exploitation, interference and aggression by the rich major Powers. They have mobilized all their potential, their capacity, in order to be able to enjoy their inalienable right to dispose of their own national resources and to build a new society in consonance with the aspirations of their people and in accordance with the specific conditions of their nations.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“By their valiant efforts they have won their freedom, their independence and their dignity, and have recovered the right to determine their own destinies. These victories have by stages shaken the very foundations of the colonial and neo-colonial system. They have opened up to the whole of mankind the path of total liberation everywhere. The determination to enjoy national independence has finally triumphed. No power in the world can overcome the determination of the peoples to recover their freedom, their dignity and their national identity. 47.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“The success of the recent Fifth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries at Colombo has confirmed this intensive movement of the peoples' struggle for freedom, dignity and social progress, a struggle waged at all levels -political, military, diplomatic, economic and organizational. 46. We live in a world which is undergoing rapid and widespread change. Over the last three decades, the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America, exploited and depressed for centuries, have woken up and become aware of their own strength and, taking arms, have committed themselves to arduous struggle, complex and full of sacrifice, in order to free themselves from the iniquitous system of old and new colonialism and to rid themselves of all the shackles of domination and foreign exploitation.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“We should also like to express once again our support for the admission of the People's Republic of Angola, whose absence among us we deplore. 45. The thirty-first session of the General Assembly is being held at a time when all the peoples of the world, particularly the peoples of the non-aligned countries and the third world, are waging everywhere a triumphant struggle against imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism, racism, zionism and all forms of interference, aggression, expansion and foreign exploitation for independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, the right to be masters of their own destiny and for the establishment of a new international economic order based on justice and equality.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“We are happy to be able to extend to the Republic of Seychelles our sincere congratulations and a warm welcome to our Organization. 44. We very much regret the fact that the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam has so far not been allowed to participate in our work, despite the fact that it fulfills all the conditions laid down in the United Nations Charter. The United States of America has decided once again to abuse the veto without any good reason. This is a display of contempt for the will of all peoples who love peace and justice and it is also an act of defiance of the international community. We repeat once again here our firm support for the admission of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam to membership in our international Organization.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“41. The delegation of Democratic Kampuchea is pleased to be able to convey to Mr. Amerasinghe its warm congratulations on his unanimous election to the presidency of this thirty-first session of the General Assembly. The responsibility placed in him is a warm tribute to his country, Sri Lanka, for its unswerving policy of independence, peace and non-alignment and, through Sri Lanka, which at present has the chairmanship of the group of non-aligned countries, it also constitutes a warm tribute to the whole movement and the principles of non-alignment. We are convinced that under Mr, Amerasinghe's presidency our work will be highly successful. 42. We also wish to extend our warm congratulations to Mr. Gaston Thorn, President of the thirtieth session of our General Assembly, upon his success in his important office. 43.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)