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1966-09-24
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1966-09-24
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  1. “Apart from the consideration that the untold human suffering that is taking place in that unfortunate country should be brought to a speedy end, is there not a duty cast upon even those of us not immediately concerned in the conflict to direct our untiring energies and bend our wills to devise some means by which the apparently conflicting claims and the relatively contradictory positions taken up by the warring parties can be reconciled? 165. Already the international community is in some degree committed to the observation and supervision of events taking place in that area.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

  2. “At a time when mankind is manifesting a deep desire for peace in the world, when every representative from this rostrum has unreservedly expressed the view that hostilities in Viet-Nam must not merely be made to abate but to terminate, it is a depressing commentary on our times, committed as we are under the Charter to take effective, collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to peace, that over the course of one whole year the international community as represented by this Assembly has had to look on helplessly and allow a situation to develop which may easily lead to a third world conflagration.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

  3. “In this regard one welcomes the action taken by the African States, and earlier by certain Latin American States as well, in entering into a solemn undertaking to keep their continents free of nuclear weapons, decisions which, we are sure, will be respected by everyone. It is our earnest hope that similar arrangements will be made in regard to the other continents. We would here like to recall the resolution passed last year by the General Assembly on the question of non-proliferation. We regret that the initiatives towards this end have so far been few and far between. 164.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

  4. “Whilst the achievement of a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty is a primary and essential desideratum since it will prevent the evolution of even more sophisticated nuclear weapons, an equally essential objective is the urgent need for a concerted effort to achieve non-proliferation of the existing types of nuclear arms. Proliferation by its very nature gives rise to a chain reaction and, with every nation that comes into possession of nuclear weapons, one or more of the others will clamour for like possession. If we ask the question "Is it too much to expect of Governments voluntarily to renounce the acquisition and possession of nuclear weapons?", it is because we sincerely feel that the vast majority of the peoples of the world deeply desire an immediate end to the nuclear arms race. 163.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

  5. “It is a matter of the deepest concern, not only to the Governments but also to the peoples of the world that, despite the appeals of this Assembly, both underground as well as atmospheric tests have been carried out since we last met. Are we to allow the world to move inexorably towards a situation of the gravest peril to all mankind merely because of the desire on the part of certain Powers to increase their stature in the international community by insisting on a prominent seat at the nuclear high table, on the mistaken premise that he who has no nuclear arms comes naked to the conference table? 162.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

  6. “At the time this Assembly last met, there seemed to be some hope that at least the partial test ban Treaty would be made a more comprehensive one. We, the militarily unsophisticated and smaller nations of the world, find it somewhat difficult to understand how, despite the anxiety of the major nuclear Powers themselves to achieve a comprehensive test ban treaty, they have not been able as yet to hammer out agreement, even on this one fundamental question. 161. It is our belief that this failure has not been so much due to scientific or technological reasons connected with detection as to doubts and suspicions still lingering from the days of the "Cold War".”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

  7. “In this connexion, may I be permitted to express the hope that, in the not too distant future, the representatives of a reunited Germany will be sitting in our midst and by their presence assisting immeasurably in consolidating the stability of Europe and thus facilitating the achievement of world peace. 160. It seems incredible that, with the universal and collective will for peace manifest throughout the world and reflected clearly and unambiguously in the speeches made here by the representatives of every Member State of this Organization, the efforts of the United Nations, directly as well as through its Committee on Disarmament, have so far not made any significant advance, at any rate during the past year, towards achieving either nuclear or general disarmament.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

  8. “There is not the slightest doubt that the participation in our deliberations of the representatives of the People's Republic of China would considerably enhance the value of all our efforts towards the maintenance of international peace and security, particularly in this nuclear age. 159. Moreover such action on the part of this Assembly will contribute towards the fulfilment of the objective of universality of its membership. At the commencement of this session, we welcomed the admission of Guyana, and it was only yesterday that two more newly-independent sovereign States, Botswana and Lesotho, became Members of this Organization. On behalf of the Government and people of Ceylon, I should like to extend a warm welcome to all three of them and wish them well in their future in this Organization.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

  9. “I seriously and sincerely hope that the General Assembly will, this year, by a generous majority, admit them to this Organization. 157. May I in turn address a fervent appeal to the leaders of that great country and ask that they persuade themselves to accept the fact that membership of the United Nations means at least abjuring the use of force as an instrument of international conduct and thereby subscribing to the basic principles of the Charter. This, I venture to think, they should not find difficult since they themselves have accepted the principles enshrined in the Charter by undertaking to observe the concept of peaceful coexistence in what has now come to be known as the Pancha Seela, both at Bandung and subsequently. 158.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

  10. “In doing so I regretted the absence of Indonesia from our councils and hoped that we would soon have the pleasure of its presence in our midst. It is therefore singularly gratifying to me personally to have been present when the Foreign Minister of Indonesia appeared before this Assembly and addressed it. 156. The welcome decision of Indonesia to resume its active co-operation with us here naturally leads us to give thought once again to the absence from our midst of the representatives of the largest of the Asian countries, namely, the People's Republic of China. By any standard or by any test, this world assembly should not longer be deprived of the benefit of the participation in its deliberations of the representatives of the People's Republic of China.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

  11. “May we hope that before we meet next year, the relations between these two great neighbours of ours will be finally and permanently settled on a footing mutually acceptable to both of them and satisfactory to the international community. 154. Another noteworthy and welcome development in our part of the world has been the relaxation of the strained tensions between the two other great Asian countries, Malaysia and Indonesia. May one hope that this area of peace will widen to include the rest of South-East Asia. 155. Speaking last year, I adverted to the necessity of strengthening the representative character of the United Nations in order to enhance its power and prestige as an instrument for the maintenance of international peace and security.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

  12. “Although we are meeting in an atmosphere of growing international tension, escalation of local conflicts and a feeling of almost universal uneasiness about the state of the world, we may be allowed to record a sense of gratification that the hostilities that had broken out between India and Pakistan over Kashmir last year, at the time the General Assembly was meeting, were brought to an end at the instance of the United Nations, and that the relief so obtained was subsequently consolidated as a result of the initiative of the Government of the Soviet Union in bringing the leaders of those two States to the conference table at Tashkent. To the disinterested efforts of the Soviet Union in this matter we would like to pay a cordial tribute.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

  13. “I am sincerely and strongly convinced that, if the super Powers can in their wisdom and experience realize that there are far more factors of common humanity that should unite the interests of nation States than there are differences that divide them, then they will appreciate that their wider national interests and those of the international community are far from being in conflict but rather are different facets of the same basic problems that challenge the very existence of man. 153.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

  14. “To us the smaller, the weaker and the economically less-developed countries of the world, this Assembly of the United Nations is and will continue to be the last and only repository of our hopes, ambitions and aspirations for a world in which nations as well as individuals can live and move and have their being as friends and as equals, with emphasis upon those elements which equate man to man and which eliminate those differences which prevent such equation.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

  15. “My optimism has been almost completely belied by the events of the past year, and I come before you for the second time, on behalf of the Government and people of Ceylon, to make an appeal, if I may do so with humility, particularly to the major Powers, that they may, in the years that lie ahead, come to identify their national interests with those of the international community represented in this Assembly. 152.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

  16. “I was bold enough at the time to anticipate that the strains and tensions of the international rivalries resulting in what has now passed into our vocabulary as the "Cold War" would cease and that this forum would be utilized by nations large and small not as a mere sounding board for advancing narrow national policies, but as a forum in which to seek measures for reconciling national self-interest with international co-operation and good neighbourliness. 151.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

  17. “If my assessment of the situation prevailing at the time and my anticipation for the future had been misconceived, my only excuse, apart from the fact that I am an unrepentant internationalist, is that I was deeply impressed by the constructive statemanship shown by all Member States, particularly by the major Powers, in their determined effort to overcome the deadlock of the nineteenth session — a statesmanship v/which stemmed from the solemn consciousness and conviction of the urgent and imperative need for a world organization such as ours to function, if only to give expression to the collective will of the international community. 150.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

  18. “149. Speaking last year on my first appearance before this world Assembly [1345th meeting], I must have appeared to seasoned internationalists as striking a note of cheery optimism, and, as I look back, I myself feel how unreal and idealistic I must have sounded then.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)