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1972-09-24
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  1. “Furthermore, the latter are made up of disparate elements, the overwhelming majority of which do not even make use of the name of Sihanouk in their own propaganda within the country, knowing that that name is rejected by the Khmer people. Moreover, they constitute neither an army nor a political force, since they are used only for propaganda and as arms carriers for the aggressors, or are forced to perform minor tasks of supply and logistics. 136. Obviously, the consequences of North Vietnamese aggression have been cruelly felt by the Khmer Republic and its people. 137. About one third of the 181,000 square kilometers of the territory is still under the occupation by the forces of the aggressors, who have endeavored to sow terrorism and insecurity wherever they have been able to do so.”

    1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)

  2. “This aggression, which is an obvious fact, is amply proved by the many captured weapons and documents as well as by the declarations of North Vietnamese and Viet-Cong prisoners held at present in Phnom Penh. A number of foreign observers that have free access to Khmer territory since April of 1970 no longer challenge the reality of this invasion despite the efforts of enemy propaganda to camouflage it by representing its four North Vietnamese divisions (the first, fifth, seventh and the ninth) and the C-40 Viet-Cong regiment as the so-called army of Sihanouk. 135. In fact, besides those 60,000 North Vietnamese and Viet-Cong invaders, there are barely 30,000 "red Khmers", of which 6,000 rallied to the legal Government as of last 30 August.”

    1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)

  3. “In the light of that situation, the Khmer people had no other choice but to organize itself for resistance, a national resistance that was and is a typical case of legitimate self-defense as provided for in the Geneva Agreements of 1954 as well as in the Charter of the United Nations. 134. Evidence mounts day by day, attesting to the increased atrocities committed not only against our defense forces, but, over and above all, against our civilian population, our children, our Buddhist monks, our doctors, without counting the manifold destruction caused to our economic, cultural and social infrastructure, or the acts of terrorism committed against peaceful inhabitants in their towns and villages.”

    1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)

  4. “Furthermore, after the conclusion of the Geneva Agreements of 1954, my country has never joined any military pact and never authorized the installation of any foreign base of any sort on our territory until the last years of the 1960s when its ex-Head of State, Sihanouk, in a secret agreement, without the knowledge of the Khmer Government and Parliament, authorized the clandestine installation of sanctuaries for the North Viet-Minh and Viet-Cong. It was from those bases that the 60,000 North Vietnamese and Viet-Cong soldiers in March of 1970 launched their open attacks against Khmer army that had only 32,000 men, despite people's demonstrations in the provinces, as well as in the capital, that requested their withdrawal from Khmer territory. 133.”

    1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)

  5. “This aggression is all the more unjustifiable since it is against a neutral and peaceful State, a demographically and militarily weaker country that has never threatened any other nation. Deeply imbued with the principles of Buddha, the Khmer people, with its 3,500 monasteries and its 70,000 monks in a population of 7 million inhabitants that is, one monastery for each 2,000 inhabitants and one monk for each 100 persons is reputed to be one of the most peaceful peoples of the world. 132.”

    1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)

  6. “A State that recovered its independence and sovereignty in 1953 and a Member of the United Nations since 1955, Cambodia then and the Khmer Republic now has given proof of being an exemplary Member, one which, in all circumstances, in peace as in war, has always scrupulously complied with the principles of the Charter and the agreements and commitments it has assumed. Unfortunately, our conduct did not prevent open aggression, an attack inflicted with impunity by the troops of North Viet-Nam and the Viet-Cong. This can be no other than deliberate aggression, since the Khmer Republic and the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam have no common frontier, being separated one from the other by the Kingdom of Laos and the Republic of Viet-Nam. 131.”

    1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)

  7. “More than at any other time in its existence, the Khmer people has realized how great is the danger for mankind if the United Nations does not intervene to help to call an immediate halt to a systematic and foolhardy aggression on the part of North Viet-Nam against a peaceful people, whose only crime has been that of wishing to live in peace within its own frontiers and with good understanding with all nations, particularly, its neighbors, without any distinctions of ideology, race, religion or system of Government. 130.”

    1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)

  8. “It is that very conviction that is our strength, a moral strength that no subversive campaign and no weapon can weaken. In this struggle to liberate out country from the claws of foreign invaders that are militarily better equipped and better trained, the Khmer people needs, if not assistance, at least understanding and encouragement from all the peoples who have committed themselves formally to honoring the fundamental principles of the Charter of the United Nations. 129.”

    1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)

  9. “While I am addressing you, the Khmer people, innocent victims of an unjustified and unjustifiable foreign aggression, is still suffering in its own flesh and blood. Its sufferings are such that neither the comfort nor the ultramodern installations of this glass palace, nor the distance that separates me from my country, can banish from my mind the image of the ghastly spectacle of the exactions committed by the invaders against our civilian population: women mourning their husbands; children, their mothers; monks, their monasteries that have been devastated; and the refugees, their lost homes. 128. In this abyss of suffering, where its North VietNamese neighbors have plunged it without reason, the Khmer people is struggling with courage and determination for its destiny, its survival and its very existence as a nation.”

    1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)

  10. “In these delicate circumstances where, in a world ravaged by conflict, there is at last a slight glimmer of peace, we are happy to find in our Secretary-General all the necessary qualifications to assist us together to find the appropriate ways and means of keeping alive and even increasing that glimmer of peace for the greater welfare of mankind. 126. At the same time, I should like to endorse, with great gratitude, what has been said by eminent representatives who have preceded me, in paying tribute also to our outgoing President, Mr. Adam Malik, for his patient and unflagging efforts in the search of a just and lasting peace in the world, and particularly, in our region of South-East Asia. 127.”

    1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)

  11. “Mr. President, may I at the outset, on behalf of my delegation and personally, offer you our warmest congratulations on being elected to preside over the twenty-seventh regular session of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Your unanimous choice as President is a tribute paid at one and the same time to the heroic Polish people and to you, whose prestige and competence are guarantees of the successful conduct of the work of the Assembly. 125. I should also like to pay a tribute to Mr. Kurt Waldheim, and to inform him of how much my Government appreciates his constant and devoted efforts to achieve detente and international co-operation.”

    1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)