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Benhima

THE RECORD WRITES THIS SPEAKER AS BENHIMA

lines on the record: 151
first: 1959-09-24
most recent: 1973-09-24
sittings or episodes: 5
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“The agreement between those two countries, the one with all its potential and the other with all its power, promises Asia an international role genuinely in keeping with its size and is a primary feature in the change in the world balance. Moreover, the constant readjustment of this balance, in our view, offers the best chance of safeguarding international peace and security. 127. The non-aligned countries, which had organized themselves during the most crucial years of the cold war and held out against pressure as well as persuasion, can today be legitimately proud of having been able, through the mere force of their conviction, to set themselves aside from the influence of either block. Their principles and their action were to a very large extent important factors in the evolution of relations among the great Powers.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“The restoration to People's China of all its rights and its admission to the United Nations, and the visit of President Nixon to Peking are in fact significant portents that the great Powers have realized the limits of the respective powers and have undertaken from now on progressively to normalize their relations. 126. In Asia again, the visit of the Prime Minister of Japan to China and the restoration of diplomatic relations between the two countries at one stroke changed all the political considerations to which we had become accustomed and opened a new chapter in their history and in that of all mankind.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“The visit of Chancellor Brandt to Warsaw, the meetings between the leaders of the two Germanys, the Moscow summit and the ratification of the German-Soviet agreements are the most significant stages of this process which has made it possible to substitute dialog for mistrust, at least with respect to the problems of Europe, a region which was one of the most serious hotbeds of crises in the post-war period. 125. Another series of events has spread the same spirit to Asia and paved the way for making the most striking changes of our times.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“But this evolution, timid and problematical as it may be, is already substantially changing the nature and quality of relations among the main Powers, whose antagonisms and confrontation were precisely the main source of the crisis which has marked the last 25 years. A series of events has occurred in the last two years which had been impossible to conceive of, at least not in the near future, in any analysis of the previous international situation. 124.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“This privilege is all the more deserved because Poland, of which you are one of the leaders, has with courage and equanimity made a signal contribution to the abatement of tension in Europe and to the strengthening of what we already call, with reason I hope, international detente. 123. It is not in order to exercise the demons of the hot war or the cold war that we like to call the present development in international relations a detente stage. Of course, the present state of the world still provides many serious reasons for concern, preoccupation and even anguish, and the road will still be long and difficult before the international community can feel that it is confidently moving towards that security and peace to which it aspires.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“Mr. President, in calling upon you to lead the work of this session, the General Assembly has recognized in you the qualities required by such high responsibilities, which your predecessor, Mr. Adam Malik, carried out with competence and distinction. If that election is a tribute to your qualities and your experience, it is also a tribute paid to your country, whose fate for centuries was linked to almost all the painful changes that occurred in Europe through which its sons, generation after generation, did honor to the independence of peoples and the dignity of man. 122. It is also the consecration of the universality of our Organization, because all of the Member States without exception are entitled to assume the highest positions in it.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“My delegation is glad to welcome Singapore, which was admitted in special circumstances, the Gambia, whose independence was proclaimed at the beginning of this year and whose relations with Senegal, a great friend of Morocco, are an example of co-operation, and the Maldive Islands, of whose existence we have suddenly become aware, but whose new destiny is a source of satisfaction to us, and it hopes to have the pleasure, one day, of granting just as legitimate a place to bigger Powers.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“I should like above all to hail the efforts made at Geneva at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and to pay a tribute to the Special Fund for its increasing activity in the less developed countries. My country has a special reason for congratulating the Managing Director of the Special Fund, who established several years ago a co-operative relationship with Morocco which has yielded beneficial results and which the Special Fund itself describes in its statements and reports as an example of its objective and of successful co-operation between the United Nations and Member States. 135. I should not like to leave this rostrum without addressing my delegation's congratulations to the three new States which, this year, at the proposal of friendly countries, have entered our international Organization.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“Whether in Oman, where delaying tactics are holding up a solution, or in Aden, where the occupation is backed by a military presence, the peoples of the Middle East are coming together and have found support outside their own community for their insistent demand for a settlement of this fundamental problem and of their problems, which I will call secondary by comparison but the solution of which is also essential for the independence of the peoples of South Arabia and Aden. 134. I have not discussed those aspects of United Nations activities which relate to economic and social development. Since these matters have acquired an exceptional importance in recent years, it seems to me that we could deal with them more effectively in the Committee whose main task is to consider them.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“The criteria which the Organization tries to adopt or often does adopt in seeking a solution in countries where national unity has been broken, where part of the national territory has been despoiled, the criteria it has adopted in settling international disputes, are the only basis and the only principle which should apply in the vitally necessary search for an international solution to this problem. 133. The other problems of the Middle East, connected with the maintenance of colonialism in the region, are no different in origin. Created and perpetuated by a colonial Power, they appear always in the form of a foreign desire to dominate.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“While we must remember that there is a confrontation between the Arabs and Israel, it is nevertheless an international problem and we must therefore see it in its original context and recall the various stages of its development, which have been marked by the great Powers' constant support for Israel, by constant reaffirmation of the validity of the tripartite guarantee and the manifest conjunction of interests between certain great Powers and Israel, which was clearly revealed during the Suez crisis.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“The decision of the great Powers to establish the State of Israel in Arab territory, having as fatal consequence the massacre and the expulsion of the people of Palestine from their country, is the root cause of the continuation of the dispute. It has been deliberately treated, in various places — and here more than elsewhere — as a bilateral issue between the Arabs and the Israelis. We have given on various occasions our views on the long history of relations between the Arab peoples and the people of Israel, but It is in fact a problem between the plundered Arabs and the foreign invader, whose children, gathered from all the capitals in the ports of Europe, have certainly suffered injustices, but have found throughout history a preferred place in all the Arab countries, and particularly in the countries with Moslem communities.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“We associate ourselves again this year, as we have done consistently since 1958, with efforts to restore the full rights of the Government of the People's Republic of China in the United Nations. 131. I have just outlined some of my Government's views on certain situations in Europe, Africa and Asia. If I have kept my comment on the Middle East till last because I wished to show, in the light of the problems to which I have just referred, at least the existence of an identical cause underlying all these different crises, namely: the actions of the ruling Power, in the case of colonial problems, or, in the case of conflicts of interest, the actions of great Powers. It is this underlying cause that has determined the nature and rate of development of these conflicts. 132. Exactly the same is true of the question of Palestine.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“The friendship which binds us to India and Pakistan and which Morocco has been able to develop — I say so openly — further with India in the organizations and conferences in which we have participated and worked together, leads us today to associate ourselves with any appeals and any action designed to establish fraternity between these two peoples and, without any doubt, to open up a broader prospect for the search for peace in Asia. 130. There seems to us to be another way of moving towards the restoration of peace in Asia and the world. Since 1958, our country has had diplomatic relations and considerable trade with the People's Republic of China.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“The principles which the Security Council put forward at that time and which relate, among other things, to the right of self-determination, seem to the Moroccan Government — and the same view should be held in this Organization — to offer a fair and honest means of granting the people of Kashmir a right which the international community has finally, owing to the untiring efforts on the international scene of India among others, recognized as a right of all other peoples in the world.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“If the situation in Asia now makes it essential for the two parties to listen to the voice of reason, this same situation, which is constantly changing and which contains certain elements that may determine today the future of the continent, would seem to impose upon Pakistan a duty not to let the future of Kashmir depend solely on the hazardous chances of a solution which, though fragile, might give permanence to a de facto situation.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“It has taken certain decisions, which seemed, at times, to have the agreement of the two parties. It remained for the party responsible to restore to Kashmir the rights which the Security Council had recognized for its people. Unfortunately, the attempts made in recent years to make Kashmir's provisional institutions evolve along certain lines and the attempt to integrate them by means of a legal device into the national constitution of India, in violation of earlier decisions, caused a crisis which led by stages to the regrettable events that occurred at the beginning of September.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“In Asia, again, the dispute between India and Pakistan has suddenly jumped out of the low gear, as it were, in which both sides have been trying to keep it for the last seventeen years. The United Kingdom believed in 1947 — sincerely, no doubt — that it could enable the two new States of India and Pakistan to avoid a useless fratricidal conflict, which local conditions, and only the local conditions prevailing at that time, could make particularly serious. The first years of the two countries' coexistence in Kashmir revealed the fragility of this solution, fragile because it was a hasty one and because it was intended to serve as a long-term answer which by its nature it was not. Since then, the Security Council has tried, both during and between crises, to bring the collective wisdom and goodwill of its members to bear on the problem.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“The military effort undertaken by those who are politically or morally responsible for the present situation has reached incredible proportions. If it is agreed that the present violence is not likely to lead rapidly to a solution, it is also generally agreed, and rightly so, that a return to strict observance of the 1954 Agreements, and even of the 1962 agreements as well, could lead to the restoration of peace in Asia and possibly elsewhere as well. I take this opportunity to pay a tribute to the Secretary-General for the direct and discreet action which he has been taking in different ways in an attempt to secure recognition, in the five great capitals of the world, of the need for such a solution. 129.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“In fact, those who had welcomed the Geneva Agreements of 1954 — and we were among them — were unable to conceal their fears at the division of Viet-Nam, even a temporary division guaranteed by agreements freely accepted by all parties. Those who in recent years have taken the initiative, both inside and outside Viet-Nam, in seeking that unity which both parts of the country equally desire, but who have used violence instead of the legal means that had been established, have made a tragic mistake which the entire Viet-Namese population is paying for today in a war in which its true interests have been lost sight of or have become closely linked with problems of regional or international antagonism. 128.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“In Asia, on the other hand, where the destiny of the newly-established States and the future of a number of its peoples seem to have counted for little in the calculations of certain great Powers, artificial divisions have for nearly twenty years been creating a cleavage which has almost put an end to all hopes of peace. 127. Since 1940, the Viet-Namese people have been fighting against successive conquerors. In the former French Indo-China, an international war gave way to a perhaps even more murderous war of liberation. Yet the end of that war and the proclamation of independence did not bring to that intelligent and courageous people the peace for which they had sacrificed more than any other people have done in the last twenty-five years.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“Most of the crises now occurring in two or three continents can be traced back to such attitudes, which were particularly to be found at the end of the Second World War. 126. The division of Europe and of Germany, which tore a nation apart and separated the peoples of a single community, was a result of this negative form of realism. In Europe, however, where the interests of the blocs have long seemed to be at the root of this two-fold mutilation, a movement which is beginning to look like the end of an era is giving rise to, and in some cases even fulfilling, the hope that the free will of the peoples will be able, when the interests of the great Powers once more coincide, to restore the unity that has for so long been destroyed.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“The African countries, whose Heads of State are holding a conference in a few days' time, are aware that they will be meeting either on the eve of a courageous decision by the British Government, or on the morrow of an irreparable decision by Mr. Ian Smith. They have already indicated that they have great hopes for the former, but that they are ready to take up the challenge of the latter. 123. Mr. Smith's recent contacts with South Africa and Portugal reveal even more clearly the plan for a triple alliance, which if formed would sow in Africa the seeds of an inevitably painful future. 124. South Africa has been encouraged in the last few years by the indifference of the great Powers, and Portugal, even today, is encouraged by their complicity. 125.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“I have chosen to deal with this problem first, because I propose to demonstrate later, in connexion with other problems, that their beginnings can be traced back to international situations in which indifference or acceptance of the fait accompli seemed, to the Powers then in a position to influence events, to offer a solution more in line with their own interests or, at best, with what they believed to be the interests of peace. 121. Mr. Michael Stewart, who addressed the Assembly just now, might very well be able to convince many of us that particular circumstances sometimes made it necessary for him to remain silent; but we very much hope that in London he will be able to make Her Majesty's Government understand the reasons for our continuing concern. 122.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“At African meetings, at the Afro-Asian conferences, at every anti-colonialist gathering, here in the United Nations General Assembly and on many occasions in the Security Council, Africans have raised this problem in one way or another, showing ever more clearly the direction in which the white minority was heading and denouncing what they rightly regarded as the impotence or indifference of the successive London Governments. 120.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“The fate of Southern Rhodesia now seems to have been left somewhat casually in the hands of Mr. Ian Smith alone. The threat of a unilateral declaration of independence by Southern Rhodesia to the benefit of a foreign minority that is colonialist in origin is becoming more and more apparent. For several years the African delegations have taken seriously and voiced their concern at the steps taken by the white Government of Salisbury to attain this objective.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“A certain section of international opinion, manipulated by skilful propaganda, seems to lose interest in a conflict which takes on the aspect of a chronic crisis and turn its attention to conflicts the gravity of which seems to be determined by their topicality. The events convulsing Asia, although connected with problems stemming from long-standing situations, undoubtedly merit the attention they are now receiving from the entire world. But whereas their development depends on factors which are sometimes external to the problems themselves and is mainly determined by their effect on the Interests of great Powers, there are problems whose chronic nature should not be allowed to hide the fact that they are a serious and constant source of danger. 119.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“Our position in the Arab community, as in the African community, with which our moral and material ties are developing very rapidly, has always been based on this method. The ever-growing esteem and friendship which is shown to us in different parts of the world encourage us to persist in this line of conduct. 117. Wherever we have to take part in some activity, we range ourselves with the party which gives priority to the peaceful solution of the problem. This is still the policy of Morocco in dealing with the acute and chronic conflicts which confront us today. I should like to express briefly the views of my country concerning a number of those conflicts whose developments are increasingly poisoning relations between neighbouring countries or which are degenerating into international conflicts. 118.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“This confidence is not the expression of an easy optimism or the feelings of a country which has excellent international relations throughout the world and which would be tempted to minimize the difficulties at present facing the leaders of a seriously troubled world. It is rather confidence in a method that Morocco, which regained its independence scarcely ten years ago, firmly believes in and that it prides itself on having following strictly in dealing with the very complex problems involved in winning back its independence and effective sovereignty, the most serious of which it believes it has solved. 116. Although we have to accept the fact that occasionally we are misunderstood or even criticized, it still remains the fundamental law and basis of our relations, even where our vital interests are at stake.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“Until the last few years, international conflicts of interest were intensified by the intolerance of ideological confrontations and thus appeared to be problems that could not be solved otherwise than by the triumph of different philosophies or ethics. Now, however, the approaches adopted in seeking to resolve such conflicts are based more on national and international realities and are becoming once again much more a search for a balance of power than a struggle between ideologies. It seems to us, therefore! that political skill may readily succeed where intransigence has inevitably led us to failure. 115.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“May I also, since I have the honour to be the Moroccan Ambassador to the Italian Republic, recall with appreciation the friendly welcome that was extended to my mission and the positive support which I had from you as Head of the Government, Minister for Foreign Affairs and leader of a political family whose role remains decisive in your country and in Europe. Your wide experience and your authority are a guarantee of the success of our work, which will not always be easy. 113. To save the best instrument for preserving peace is certainly a worthy result. But to solve all, or at least the most urgent, of the problems threatening world peace is still, even in an apparently more encouraging atmosphere, an undertaking which, it must be admitted, will prove a severe test for our goodwill. 114.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“However, my delegation's tribute is addressed above all to the outgoing President, Mr. Quaison-Sackey, who faced all kinds of difficulties with a courage and skill that we should like to emphasize here in a spirit of friendship and esteem. 112. As regards the prospects for the new work now being undertaken by the General Assembly, the unanimous confidence of Member States has placed its success, Mr. President, in your hands. The words I use in congratulating you naturally reflect the expression of my country's admiration for an Italian statesman who has dominated the national and international life of his country for the last twenty years. They also express the great esteem in which my sovereign, His Majesty Hassan II, holds you and which he had the pleasure to convey to you personally on several occasions in your country and in mine.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“Today, therefore, we cannot conceal our deep satisfaction at seeing the reasons for this crisis and its immediate consequences overcome, and at seeing this new session beginning its work according to the normal procedures and in an atmosphere of manifest willingness to unite in strengthening the United Nations and in restoring more peaceful relations among Member States. 110. Although this was achieved by the continuing efforts of a number of delegations and Governments, it was the Special Committee on Peace-Keeping Operations that, by the variety of approaches it used and by the originality of all its suggestions, made it possible both inside and outside the United Nations to reach this consensus on the willingness to overcome the crisis and on a number of arrangements for solving it in the near future. 111.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“Although untiring efforts were made here at the United Nations to find a reasonable solution to the crisis, it was in the context of wider international responsibilities that the will to co-operate and the urgent need for compromise finally prevailed. 108. The risk of rupture of the United Nations and the absence of any other effective instrument for harmonizing international relations seemed a great enough danger for the mist powerful States to revert to a way of thinking in which political flexibility was given priority over the strict letter of the law. 109.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“106. During the very brief previous session of the General Assembly, my delegation did not conceal its anxiety and its concern at the threat of' a complete paralysis of the work of our Organization. It did not seem to us, in fact, that the purely financial difficulties were likely to remain indefinitely insurmountable. It was unthinkable that the international community would jeopardize the existence of so vital an organization because of a lack of resources, which after all could easily be found on either side of the opposing lines. The financial crisis was more the outcome of a political confrontation whose causes and consequences were not confined to the work or to the future of the United Nations. 107.”
1965-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 20 (1965)
“I have deliberately refrained from mentioning certain problems to which our delegation usually devotes its attention in the course of the general debate. We hope by so doing to influence destiny a little and that the efforts of the President and Members of the Assembly, who are endeavouring to resolve our present difficulties, will enable us to tackle them directly in the committee meetings by next week. With that wish, Mr. President, I shall conclude my statement.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“Furthermore, the countries of the Maghreb, which have already made an encouraging start in cooperating with each other in certain matters, are equally sincere in their desire to strengthen the factors of harmony with a view to an ever closer regional union, homogeneous within its boundaries and presenting a solid front to rival or hostile groupings. Our country knows, and our friends know too, that the elimination of certain vestiges which circumstances have made anachronistic and which are incompatible with a profession of friendship is the only sound way to achieve our peoples' unanimous objective, which daily becomes more imperative in the light of past circumstances and future prospects. 119.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“Ever since then we have constantly declared our willingness to settle all the other matters in dispute by the same methods of negotiation and mutual understanding. 117. The same has not always been true of those with whom we would negotiate: at times they have tried to repudiate our rights and at other times have replied with promises, which we always trusted. Morocco's pleaders still have complete confidence in them, but as far as the settlement of such problems is concerned, the world situation is developing at such a rate that leaders cannot disregard the impatience of their people. Genuine co-operation cannot neglect such factors, and the settlement of these disputes is a condition for loyal collaboration in the various matters in which higher interests in a particular region coincide or complement each other. 118.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“Having faith in the virtue of negotiated solutions, we sincerely believed, at the time that our independence was recognized, that the disappearance of such forms of foreign presence as military bases or temporary occupation of certain regions of our country would be brought about through negotiations, not perhaps fixed for any definite date but accepted in principle and with their objective agreed upon. We have had many difficulties which our people have faced with courage and we have overcome them by dint of perseverance and patience. The former colonizers have evacuated the military bases and withdrawn their troops. Here and there they have handed over pieces of territory which were still under their authority or which they occupied on a de facto basis because of their colonial presence in other countries of Africa.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“At a time when the Arab countries are studying the possibilities of legitimate exploitation of all their natural resources for the benefit of their peoples, Israel's sophistry should be met with a common front in which the conscience of Africa would play a role commensurate with its responsibilities. 116. It has become truly painful for the representative of Morocco to refer at every session to certain problems in connexion with the principle of our country's territorial integrity and the exercise of its sovereignty over the whole of its territory.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“The tragedy of Palestine is not solely an Arab problem: it is a problem of foreign occupation and domination. It is indeed a particularly odious one, in that the authentic inhabitants of the country have been expelled from their homeland for the benefit of heterogeneous immigrants who have no connexion with Palestine. In order to remain faithful to its ideal, the Organization of African Unity, taking a firm stand on the issues of colonialism and racismc should not allow its liberating zeal to weaken and should denounce with equal ardour and indignation South African racism and Israel racism.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“When it has overcome the natural difficulties of any new organization, and has achieved complete homogeneity among all its members by the acceptance of a common denominator of equilibrium between the various African trends existing prior to its constitution, it will provide the United Nations with a valuable instrument for further action for the achievement of all its objectives and greater co-operation between the Powers of yesterday and the new States. 114. It is equally essential for the future and for the moral and political authority of the Organization of African Unity that it should not hold aloof from the problems that are not strictly African. Colonialism is still to be found in other regions of the world, although in different forms from those of traditional colonialism. 115.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“The Organization of African Unity, which came into being mainly because of Africa's unanimous desire to take a direct part in giving all forms of aid and support to liberation movements throughout the continent, cannot, and indeed owing to its still limited resources does not intend to, remain the sole instrument of resistance to colonialism; its existence and its action cannot justify any lack of interest on the part of the United Nations and its Members in regard to colonial domination. 113. The Organization of African Unity derives from the faith of its members and the principles of its charter the strength and means of action which enable it to assume more and more responsibility in international affairs, firstly in the African continent and then at the world level.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“If the struggle now being waged by those peoples is to be regarded as a measure of their desire to be liberated and if it is to be a determining factor in their desire to forge a new destiny, the international community must not stand aloof and the United Nations must not be content with merely offering sympathy and moral support. 111. The liberation of peoples is the primary objective of the United Nations, and international cooperation, which is its purpose, can be achieved only in a world where all peoples are sovereign and all States are independent. 112.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“Portugal is strengthening its military potential and continuing its policy of colonialism in Angola, so-called Portuguese Guinea and Mozambique, and it considers that the state of war in which it finds itself is in conformity with its destiny and the nature of its regime. These two countries seem to consider that the struggle against racism and the struggle for liberation are secondary phenomena which can have no effect on their chosen political course, but the African population of South Africa and the peoples of Angola and Mozambique, who are engaged in an unequal struggle, cannot rely indefinitely on their courage and their sacrifices alone to bring about a change in the policy of their aggressors. 110.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“It is generally admitted that such crises provoke sufficiently strong and swift reactions to meet any imminent danger; but there are other crises the chronic nature of which might lead one to think that the Organization is not likely to die of them. Nevertheless, they are of such a nature that the fate of many countries and peoples depends directly on their development. 109. South Africa seems to be establishing itself comfortably, amid indifference, in its policy of apartheid. The economic Press reports that the country is prosperous, and from time to time military reviews give assurances of its defensive capacity.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“At this time, a few months after the second African-Asian conference held on African soil, it is impossible not to reflect on the particularly important fact of the general confidence that the African Asian countries place in the United Nations and their abiding desire to co-operate with it, as against the situation in which the two greatest Asian countries participating in the Conference find themselves. While the solid friendship which binds my country to Indonesia entitles me to express at this very rostrum, the concern to which such a decision gives rise, I do not think that the United Nations will consider that the frustration felt by a proud and courageous people is completely unfounded. 108. At the beginning of my statement I referred to what might be called the "hot crises" threatening the United Nations.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“At a time when efforts initiated several years ago in favour of the admission of the People's Republic of China are meeting with a more receptive attitude in circles which have hitherto refused to entertain the idea, the departure of another great Asian country, whose motives we are sincerely trying to understand, cannot fail to pose fresh problems for the African-Asian countries in regard to the periodical adjustment of their international policy. 107.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“I should like to say, with that frankness which characterizes true friendship, how much we regret this decision, the immediate and long-term consequences of which are clear both to Indonesia's friends and to its foes. The non-aligned countries which have expressed their profound faith and confidence in the United Nations, are deeply troubled by the withdrawal of a country which still has a leading role to play in Asia and Africa. 106.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“Since 1948 many countries which have struggled or are still struggling for freedom owe it largely to Indonesia that opinions within the United Nations have developed in favour of accelerated decolonization and effective support for the cause of liberty and independence. My country is one of those and is grateful to the people and Government of Indonesia for their work in New York and throughout the world in support of our struggle and of our exiled king. Since our achievement of independence an unfailing friendship has been developing between our two countries, which have nearly always found themselves sharing the same thoughts about certain international situations.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)