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PADILLA. NERVO

lines on the record: 205
first: 1948-09-24
most recent: 1962-09-24
sittings or episodes: 6
sources: un-general-debate

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“For that reason Mexico viewed with alarm, not the inevitable and foreseen differences between the great Powers, for the solution of which the different organs and instruments of the United Nations had in fact been created, but the intransigence apparent in the search for equilibrium, the spirit which seemed to obtain in negotiations, the stagnation or slowness shown on the path to vital agreement, the growth of a political atmosphere of distrust, suspicion and lack of understanding. The world could no longer be satisfied with mere repeated statements, however sincere, of adhesion to noble principles on the part of each Member of the Organization.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“The fulfilment of that promise depended on their mutual understanding and agreement. It admitted of no division or graduation. However great the spiritual and material contribution of the other nations — placed on a lower level of responsibility by their limited military and economic power — to the common task of outlawing war and creating world conditions for the preservation for all of liberty, justice, law and social progress, those ideals could not be attained in any permanent and universal way without the necessary support of the great Powers, the mutual harmony and understanding of which were the point of departure and the very basis of the United Nations.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“They had one and all proclaimed before the Assembly their determination to settle their disputes by peaceful means and in conformity with the principles of justice and law; to practice tolerance and live together in peace as good neighbours; to develop friendly relations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples; to achieve international co-operation in recognizing and safeguarding human rights and fundamental freedoms; not to use armed force except in the common interest; not to encroach upon the territorial integrity or the political independence of any State. The spokesmen of the great Powers had, in the Assembly, roused the hopes of the common man by the solemn promise that they would unite their forces for the maintenance of international peace and security.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“It could not be concealed that public opinion regarded the Assembly’s discussions with feelings of doubt and reserve which could not be changed by speeches but only by clear results, constructive agreements and satisfactory solutions. The representatives of both great and small nations had, time and again, re-affirmed their faith in the purposes and principles of the United Nations and their intention to honour their pledges and respect freely contracted promises.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“Mr. PADILLA NERVO hoped that, as the Assembly had met in the heart of France, in the capital of a great country to which humanity owed so much, the watchword of «Liberty, Equality and Fraternity », which had gone out from Paris to all the world, would, in all its profound significance, through the present anxious period of hope and aspiration, inspire the will and feeling of the representatives present at the Assembly. The Assembly had unfortunately not met in an atmosphere of security and optimism. Throughout the world man was living in anxiety and fear. Governments had not succeeded in inspiring by their pronouncements an international confidence not justified by deeds.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)