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Rakotomalala

THE RECORD WRITES THIS SPEAKER AS RAKOTOMALALA

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1961-09-24

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1967-09-24

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1. “It is in conformity with those provisions that, since the admission of my country to the United Nations, my delegation has belonged to the group of African and Asian countries and to the African group and has given them loyal and disinterested support. It was with the same idea that the Malagasy Republic took part in the big conference, at Monrovia,10/ of some twenty African and Malagasy nations. During that conference, resolutions were adopted for promoting friendship and co-operation among all the African, nations, without exception, and for ensuring the settlement of all disputes by peaceful means. 182.”

   1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)

2. “During the fifteenth session emphasis was placed on the desirability of enabling the Member States, at present numbering 100, to participate more effectively in the two major United Nations bodies, the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council. My Government considers that that is an act of justice which should no longer be delayed and that, before the end of the sixteenth session, specific action should be taken to enlarge those bodies considerably. That should be done independently of any other discussion concerning some of the provisions of the Charter which one of the groups in the Assembly wishes to see amended. 181. Articles 52 and 53 of the Charter envisage the existence of regional arrangements or agencies for dealing with matters relating to international peace and security.”

   1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)

3. “We shall support with all our strength the proposals on the agenda of this session which are designed to put an end to nuclear explosions in any form and to bring about an agreement to outlaw these dreadful weapons. We also support the proposals for progressive general disarmament, simultaneous and controlled. 179. My delegation still thinks that the best bulwark against war lies in the strengthening of the collective security machinery provided for in the United Nations Charter and that for that purpose an effective executive is essential for the Organization. It will therefore oppose any measure likely to restrict the initiative and the powers of the Secretary-General, although it will not refuse to consider the institution of a system which would enable him to be assisted by competent colleagues. 180.”

   1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)

4. “For, in an upsurge of faith and generosity, the peoples who created the United Nations in 1945 agreed that in this Organization every nation, weak or powerful, would have an equal voice, the same opportunities for action and hence the same duties and responsibilities in the maintenance of peace. 177. It is in conformity with those principles that the Malagasy Republic is determined to make its contribution, during the sixteenth session, to any action which would result not only in preventing the cold war from turning into horrors of a real war but also, if possible, in bringing that cold war to an end, so that, returning to wisdom, reason and reality, the nations would decide to live together in peace. 178.”

   1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)

5. “The small nations are anxiously wondering what turn events will take, fearful that at any minute a rash and ill-advised action may unleash blind and destructive forces w! eh will bring to nought the efforts the free peoples have been making in this Organization for the last sixteen years to maintain peace and to ensure that wise and conciliatory solutions may prevail over violence. 176. In this strange duel which is taking place above their heads, the outcome of which will nevertheless decide their future and even their lives, they have a part to play.”

   1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)

6. “The world has lost a great man, one of those who are a credit to mankind; his name will remain in our memories long after so many passing triumphs have been forgotten. A high sense of duty, a lofty conception of his role, a dedicated search for everything which could help to make the dread spectre of war recede—these are some of the qualities which made Dag Hammarskjold a living personification of the ideal which gathers a hundred free nations of the world together in this Assembly. 175. For the last few weeks the world has been plunged, into fear and anguish. The two great. Powers and their allies have been engaged in controversy which is likely to lead them along a dangerous path.”

   1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)

7. “On behalf of the Malagasy Republic and its Head of State, Mr. Philibert Tsiranana, President of the Republic, I wish to offer our warm congratulations to Mr. Slim on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixteenth session. We cannot forget that twice in 1960 he demonstrated his friendship to the Malagasy people and gave it powerful support: in June 1960, when he submitted Madagascar's application for membership to the Security Council, and in September of that year when he supported our final admission to membership of the United Nations. The Malagasy people also rejoice with all the African nations at the honour that the achievement of this high office by one of its most illustrious sons does to our continent. 174. It is my sad duty to pay my respects to the memory of Dag Hammarskjold.”

   1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)