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“It is more than ever necessary for us to realize the futility of war as a means of resolving conflicts among nations. 199. My country is deeply concerned by the conflict between Iraq and Iran, two Muslim non-aligned countries both of which are friends of the people of Mali. The mediation efforts of the Organization of the Islamic Conference and by the countries of the Non-Aligned Movement have unfortunately not put an end to that war. The Republic of Mali, which has always supported any initiative aimed at the definitive solution of that painful problem, once again appeals urgently to the belligerent parties finally to heed the voice of reason and put an end to the hostilities, which threaten the stability of the region and jeopardize its development. 200.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“Africa, which appreciated the awarding of the Simon Bolivar Prize to Nelson Mandela, imprisoned for life in South African gaols, welcomes that great event. 197. The message of Contadora and the Manifesto to the Peoples of Latin America in the Declaration by the Presidents of the Bolivarian Republics adopted at Caracas in July 1983 clearly reflect the faith of Latin America in its unity and in its desire for co-operation in peace and with respect for the sovereignty of States. The Republic of Mali renews its support for them in the efforts to achieve those noble objectives which are so dear to the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries. 198. The seriousness of international disputes and their consequences require us to look for wise solutions.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“When the children of Chad are reconciled, the external aspect of the crisis will be more easily resolved, because in unity people have always found appropriate responses to attacks on their sovereignty and independence and territorial integrity. 195. We have already stated that only dialogue and a policy of good-neighborliness can lead to the achievement of the great aspirations of the people who have given us a mandate to guarantee their security and well-being. Unfortunately, those aspirations are still thwarted in Latin America and in the Caribbean. 196. Those third world countries this year commemorate the bicentennial of the birth of Simon Bolivar, one of their greatest historical figures for whom freedom, tolerance and unity were the indispensable foundations of the emancipation of the region.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“The sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Chad must be safeguarded. The national unity of the people of Chad must be preserved. If those two major objectives are to be achieved, all States Members of the United Nations must ensure that two essential conditions are fulfilled. First, there must be no external interference, whether from within or outside Africa. Secondly, and above all, it is only through national reconciliation that a lasting solution can be found to the crisis in Chad. Only the reconciliation of all the sons of Chad will make it possible to resolve the Chad aspect of the crisis.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“Those virtues are embodied in the collective wisdom of nations and will triumph over the present obstacles and the conflicts and wars which unfortunately still divide brothers, destroy families and wipe out societies. At each historic turning-point the people have found the appropriate response to their preoccupations. That is why my delegation is convinced that now, too, Africans will be able to resolve the problems that have arisen in the continent. 193. The situation prevailing in Chad, which is of concern to the people of Mali and its leaders, has become more tense, despite the precarious lull of recent weeks. 194. Chad, a Sahel State and a founding member of the Organization of Saharan States, must be the primary beneficiary of the principles governing the charter of that young subregional organization.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“They attest to the fact that good faith and a sound and brotherly concept of the principle of good-neighborliness make possible the honest implementation of the OAU rule regarding the inviolability of the borders bequeathed by the colonial Power, and they remain the only basis on which to look beyond short- term issues and devote ourselves to the urgent tasks of development. 191. Only through the maintenance of positive dialogue and the spirit of good-neighborliness among the nations, and particularly those of the third world, can we move towards the realization of the great aspirations of the peoples of the United Nations. 192. That phenomenon, which is already notable in its immediate effects, is undoubtedly based on age-old virtues.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“Those are the sole and profound reasons that have led the Governments of our subregion, mindful of the reality of their history and the age-old devotion to peace of their peoples, to conclude border agreements to strengthen, in tranquillity, their many links of co-operation and thus to participate in bringing a new order to the developing world, given the present deadlock in the North-South dialogue. 190. Such agreements have already been concluded between Niger and Algeria, and Algeria and Mali, and will soon be concluded between Mali and Mauritania, and Mali and Upper Volta.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“On an even wider scale, faithful to the strategy set out by the Lagos Plan of Action for the Implementation of the Monrovia Strategy for the Economic Development of Africa, the Economic Community of West African States is now operating a large, reliable pool of experts and economic, cultural and social resources which could give a new dimension to the fruitful contribution of the African peoples to the very necessary dialogue among nations. 189.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“That is why Mali continues to participate in the patient building of regional bodies which are demonstrating their mission of peace, solidarity, co-operation and friendship among brother peoples naturally united by a common history. 188. To cite but a few examples of such organizations, the West African Economic Community, the Organization for the Development of the Senegal River, and the Permanent Inter-State Committee on Drought Control in the Sahel are effective instruments for the development of our subregion.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“Several years of warfare in the Western Sahara have shown that the solution to the question does not lie in military confrontation. History also teaches us that there has not been a single conflict or war that has not ended at the negotiating table. That is the price of peace in Western Sahara, a price that the parties to the conflict, POLISARIOs and the Kingdom of Morocco, must pay with honour and dignity. 186. It is because of its awareness of the interdependence of all peoples, particularly those living in the same area of civilization, that the people of Mali has made and will continue to make good-neighborliness a cardinal principle of its African policy. As has been repeatedly stated from this rostrum, Mali intends to consolidate that principle, which we see as the only way to guarantee the individual existence of all States. 187.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“The African heads of State—although I shall not detail the many individual and collective initiatives that have been taken—have laid a solid foundation for a settlement of the question of Western Sahara. Indeed, at Addis Ababa, at its nineteenth session, the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity adopted a settlement plan [see which calls for the cooperation of the United Nations. 184. Notwithstanding the difficulties that have now arisen concerning the implementation of that important and decisive resolution adopted at Addis Ababa, we pin our hopes on the actions and initiatives under way to find an African solution for the problem of the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara. 185.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“It is a duty fulfilled by my country, Mali, when it recognized and reaffirmed the inalienable right of the people of Western Sahara to self-determination by means of an open and properly organized general referendum, which is the only way of resolving the serious crisis resulting from incomplete decolonization. Only the speedy conclusion of this process can help establish a just and definitive peace in that subregion of Africa, whose peoples, including my own, have through the ages been mutually enriched by their experiences, their culture and their philosophy of life. The question of Western Sahara must in no way impair the harmonious sharing of this common heritage. 183. The differences on this question, as is known, have caused a serious crisis within the OAU.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“The very pertinent conclusions of the International Conference on the Question of Palestine, held at Geneva from 29 August to 7 September 1983, and the Programme of Action for the Achievement of Palestinian Rights offer all countries that cherish peace and justice new reasons for redoubling their efforts to ensure that the Palestinian people, under the guidance of the PLO, their sole legitimate representative, are able to exercise their inalienable rights, including the right to self-determination and independence. 182. Respect for the universal principles that underlie the basic right of peoples to self-determination must be seen by every Member State as a sacred duty.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“It was in the quest for a final, but impossible, victory against the valiant Palestinian fighters that the Golan Heights were occupied, that the nuclear facilities at Tammuz were bombed, that Lebanon was invaded and that a year ago the disgraceful massacres of Sabra and Shatila were perpetrated. 180. The proposals by Mali with the object of establishing peace in the Middle East, and reaffirmed by the head of State of Mali from this rostrum at the thirty-sixth session entirely relevant and valid. 181.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“The provisions of Chapter VII of the Charter show the way and give the means to the Security Council, to which the Charter has given the primary task of maintaining international peace and security. 179. The right of peoples to freedom is universal and inalienable. It applies to the people of Azania, to the people of Namibia and to the Palestinian people. The struggle for national existence waged by the Palestinian people under the banner of the PLO goes beyond the context of Palestine. After four wars it continues to shake the Middle East; it carries the seeds of another international conflagration which could have fatal consequences. The question of Palestine, far from being an Arab-Israeli conflict, is in fact a conflict between an occupying Power and a people that rejects colonial domination.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“The international community strengthened its support for the cause of freedom by deciding on more concrete measures at the Second World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination, held from 1 to 12 August 1983 at Geneva. 177. It is the duty of the international community, in particular the United Nations, to intensify its struggle against apartheid by isolating Pretoria totally. We must fight by every means available—diplomatic, political, economic and military—against a regime which maintains an anachronistic colonial system, a regime which practises an internal policy which is a disgrace to mankind, a regime which through its daily acts of aggression violates the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of its neighbours. 178.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“Respect for human dignify is also sacred apartheid defies the solemn undertaking that we have given on behalf of the peoples of the United Nations to attain the noble objectives of the Charter. Thus the struggle against of is becoming the struggle of all to preserve human dignity. It pits the Pretoria regime, the legatee of a racism which almost brought the world to its downfall, against our common determination to live in harmony and to enrich ourselves through our differences. 176. apartheid cannot be humanized; it is its nature to divide in order to strengthen repression. The recent attempts to break the unity of the South African nationalists in fact hide its vulnerability in the face of the increasing triumphs of the freedom fighters and of the growing condemnation by the world public.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“Therefore it is through the implementation of resolution 435 (1978) and the relevant annexes, which in and of themselves are sufficient, that we must make every effort to help SWAPO, the sole legitimate representative of the Namibian people, finally and in the very near future, to begin the construction of its country, returned to freedom in strict respect for its demographic homogeneity and territorial integrity. 174. Mali will continue to give its active support to the valiant people of Namibia so that final victory may be the just reward of its long martyrdom and further proof of the faith of the peoples still under colonial domination in the United Nations. 175. The freedom of peoples and respect for the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of States are sacred.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“The true intentions of South Africa in linking Namibian independence with the prior establishment of a security zone in southern Africa are those same intentions as lead it to keep Namibia in perpetual subjection, to break the revolutionary spirit of the people of Azania and persuade the international community to give its approval to apartheid. Thus it is easy to understand why the proposals for a settlement of the Namibian question have remained a dead letter. 173.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“First of all, Angola went to the United Nations to obtain a guarantee of its security, but without success, and that young Republic had no choice, other than self-destruction, but to exercise its natural right of legitimate defence, which is recognized and authorized by Article 51 of the Charter. 171. The plans, manoeuvres and evasive tactics of Pretoria are merely well-known delaying tactics, while South Africa is still with impunity occupying part of Angola by force and is pursuing its armed aggression against neighbouring independent, sovereign countries. 172.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“In order to delay Namibia's accession to independence, South Africa has constantly initiated plans, manoeuvres and evasive tactics to link that independence sometimes to the presence of Cuban troops in Angola, sometimes to the prior adoption of a sham electoral system, sometimes to the alleged partiality of this Organization. The establishment of a supposed security zone in southern Africa is the latest argument advanced by the Pretoria racists for installing a puppet council of State in Namibia. 170. Memories are not so short that we can forget that the People's Republic of Angola, shortly after it achieved independence, was invaded without any declaration of war by South Africa.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“After the adoption of Security Council resolution 435 (1978) by unanimous vote, including the five great Powers, and the Pretoria regime's unreserved acceptance of the resolution, we had hoped that the Namibian question had finally been resolved. But we did not take into account either the customary arrogance of the racist regime or, especially, the attitude of certain States Members of the United Nations which unhesitatingly contradicted their noble ideals of justice and freedom by showing great understanding towards and even complicity with the illegal racist Power of Pretoria. 169.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“In order to preserve peace, all nations have the moral responsibility and the imperative duty to resist all attacks on the dignity of peoples and the free choice of their future. But unfortunately this fight that we must wage together is coming up against the selfish interests of the Organization's Member States, some of whom have a specific responsibility for the maintenance of peace. 167. That is why the Pretoria regime, which negates the elementary values of civilization, can continue with impunity to defy the international community by illegally occupying Namibia and by practising the heinous policy of 168.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“Although the Organization has been enriched by another fighter for the triumph of the right to freedom and national existence, nevertheless we must mention the persistence of colonial domination, and this almost forty years since the Charter was signed and almost a quarter of a century since the adoption of the historic Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. Through its arrogance and excessive violence, this anachronistic colonial domination is without any doubt a challenge to the Charter, a challenge to the Organization, a challenge to the conscience of mankind and therefore a challenge that is unacceptable. This situation is one of the major causes of the increasing deterioration of the international climate.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“The aim of the United Nations is to achieve universality. One glimmer of hope is that this dream of universality of the drafters of the Charter is inexorably becoming a reality. Thus the thirty-eighth session of the General Assembly has had the pleasure of welcoming into its midst Saint Christopher and Nevis. On behalf of the people of Mali and its leaders, it is an honour for me to welcome the brother nation of this new State and to assure it of our firm intention of joining in fraternal cooperation in defending the principles and ideals of the Charter of the United Nations. 166.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“We salute the courage and tenacity he has shown in calling upon the United Nations to be receptive to fresh ideas which can lead us finally to build this world where all nations, without exception, will redouble their concerted efforts to bring about a society of peace, built by peoples all of whom are free from all forms of domination, a society of progress built on the just satisfaction of the common aspirations of peoples and nations to well-being, freedom and security, and thus to peace. 164. Mr. Illueca's predecessor, Mr. Imre Hollai of the Hungarian People's Republic, worked throughout the thirty-seventh session with his customary ability for the triumph of the Organization's ideals and principles. We renew our heartfelt congratulations to that citizen of a country which is friendly with mine. 163.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“The heavy burden that an exceptional destiny has led him to assume will be made lighter by the fact that the Secretariat is guided by that other diplomat whose competence has been recognized by all, Mr. Javier P6rez de Cu611ar, citizen of a country neighbouring his which, like Panama, is a friend of my own country. After scarcely two years in office, the Secretary-General, thanks to his calm determination and his high-mindedness, has conferred fresh dynamism on the administration of the United Nations.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“However, the drafters of the Charter dreamed of a grand world which would constantly improve in a healthy and inspiring competition to exalt the grandeur and dignity of man. 162. In our work of seeking viable solutions for distressing international problems, we welcome as an exceptional stroke of fortune for the international community the fact that the work of the thirty-eighth session of the General Assembly is being guided by a statesman of the calibre of Mr. Jorge Illueca. This sign of international approval is a tribute to the continuing action of his country, Panama, in working for peace. It is also a tribute to the efforts he personally has made throughout an outstanding career devoted to the defence of the lofty principles of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries and the noble ideals of the Charter. 163.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“In some places anachronistic colonial domination persists in its demeaning and destructive effects. Almost everywhere the world is idle, the world is ill-nourished, the world is hungry. Another outburst of racism aids and abets the crime of apartheid. 160. Unless it reacts vehemently, the United Nations will remain in the restraint of a certain political fatalism in its approach to dangerous developments in those events that we analyse at each session with such impressive lucidity. Unfortunately, each time we find only ineffectual solutions, because some are accepted by general agreement but never implemented, while others remain tenuous because of the major reservations entered when they were adopted. 161.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“The overwhelming picture of this state was described by the many eminent heads of State and Government who have spoken in turn from this rostrum and who, in their wisdom, have preached their love for peace and indicated the best ways to give the world confidence again. 159. The dominant features of the present international crises they have dwelt on, far from having moderated since the thirty-seventh session, have rather become so accentuated that we are, unfortunately, perhaps without even realizing it, on the brink of the apocalypse. The Member States on whom the Charter has conferred special responsibility for the maintenance of peace remain locked in the search for fatal weapons; other States, unfortunately, are still involved in wars to which there is no end in sight.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“156. Twenty years ago, Africa rose above the emotion and tensions inherent in post-independence periods to present itself united to the rest of the world and thus to bring to the international community a message, the thrust of which was as potent as that of the Charter of the United Nations. 157. In this twentieth anniversary year since the creation of that great African assembly, the OAU, it is quite natural that at the opening of the thirty-eighth session of this Assembly the first words of the spokesman of the Republic of Mali should be in salute to this message of responsibility, this message of the unity of hearts and wills in the service of peace, at this time of extreme tension in the world. 158. This state of the world makes the peoples of the United Nations live in anxiety about the future.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“We should not be shouldering our responsibilities and we should betray the confidence of our peoples if in our actions we failed to provide concrete, pragmatic, realistic and lasting solutions for the sole raison d'etre of man: that of living in peace with himself and with his fellow man, free of fear of future misery and conflicts, in ever larger freedom.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“That is so because our aspirations and hopes are shared by the rest of the international community. Those hopes will exist as long as peoples are compelled to resort to weapons to defend their raison d'etre and their dignity. They will exist as long as racism and its most odious manifestation, apartheid, continue as a system of government. A world that trembles in fear of nuclear peril is not a free world, and it is even less a world of peace. People who are ill for lack of care, who are sick of being hungry will, without warning, upset the present precarious order, precarious because it is obsolete. The past year has been fraught with threats. That is why we are here in this Hall with the other members of the Assembly to clear the ground for the establishment of a more stable system of collective security.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The guidelines contained in that plan, which is now an historic one, arc for Africans the only way to survive in the face of the serious economic crisis. At the thirty-sixth session, in this very Hall, President Moussa Traore spoke these words: "Together with you, we wish to restore the confidence of our people in their creative abilities. Together with you, we wish to preserve international peace and security." We have come here once again to reaffirm our readiness to build, together with all the States of the international community, another world, a new world commensurate with our creative genius so that universal civilization can flourish. This readiness on the part of the Republic of Mali to work for peace, justice and equity is constant.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The building of an independent and planned national economy, in our view, is the appropriate response to the concerns of our people. Having made this choice, we are endeavoring to adapt our economic policies to meet the deepest aspirations of our population. Like our neighbors, we believe that the patient construction of regional groups and subgroups such as the Organization for the Development of the Senegal River, the West African Economic Community, the Conference of Saharan States and the Economic Community of the States of Western Africa is the only way significantly and decisively to contribute to the realization of the Lagos Plan which resulted from the important second special session of the OAU Assembly in April 19S0 devoted to a thorough consideration of economic questions of concern to the African continent.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The struggle to keep our environment healthy and sound so that man can flourish by applying all his creative skills, has never been closer to being won. Unfortunately, thousands of experts, and even the most competent among them, devote their intelligence to improving the war machine that is destined to destroy mankind. The rehabilitation of the world economy so as to give it new life and vigor is thus among the primary challenges we shall have to meet in the course of this decade if we are to preserve peace. The Republic of Mali, because it is determined to participate actively in the collective effort to rehabilitate the world economy, has chosen a course of development that is in keeping with the ethic of its people and with the demands of the modem international community.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“We are therefore pleased once again to thank the many States and groups of States and governmental and non-governmental international organizations that have helped us to carry out some of our projects. However, it remains true that the desert continues to advance. The drought that prevails in the Sahelian regions can no longer be attributed to temporary meteorological phenomena. It prevails as a profound and more and more widespread evil, for the combating of which, however, technical and human resources exist. A careful look at the phenomenon of drought, because of its persistence and its magnitude, shows a disturbing evolution in the ecology of our world. Yet the time is past when lightning caused man to dash for cover.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“How can we explain to them, when every day they wonder what their chances are of obtaining a small crust of bread, that the cost of a jet fighter is equivalent to that of 15,000 tons of wheat and that the cost of a bomber is equivalent to that of 30 schools or 15 hospitals? How is it possible for them to understand-and here we are referring to the statistics of the World Bank-that 800 million of them are condemned to illiteracy while sums that defy the imagination are swallowed up in the unbridled arms race? For us, the peoples of the Sahelian region, where a relentless drought prevails, where millions of people see their very survival endangered, this dangerous evolution of the world's civilization is stupefying. The international community has, of course, decided to mobilize to restore life to the Sahel.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“This disturbing observation only underscores once again the degree to which the world economy is interdependent. We must above all be convinced that it is upon an improvement of the living conditions of the three quarters of the population of our world which continues to live in extreme distress that the world balance and the maintenance of international security depend. For millions of people whose average income is less than $1 a day, it takes little thought to comprehend and realize the fact that every day about 4 million times that income goes into the production of devices that could deprive them of the meagre benefits they hope to derive for their subsistence.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“However, the industrialized countries are beginning in their turn to be affected to their very foundations by something from which they thought they were shielded, that is, an upheaval in the anachronistic world economic system. In fact we are on the eve of an implosion of the international monetary system. An increasingly large number of developing countries can no longer pay the North the interest on their numerous debts, which have reached the outrageous sum of $500 billion. Even though they transfer every year to the North the tidy sum of $50 billion to service the debts and even though the South receives annually from the North only $25 billion in the form of official development assistance, the banks of the North are still threatened with collapse. This is in no way surprising.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The terms of trade have deteriorated further; export earnings have not been sufficient to ensure debt servicing, while at the same time official development assistance has become more scarce and been tied to more and more conditions. For the first time since the welcome establishment of UNDP-and we wish to praise its efforts and its merits-UNDP has had its resources reduced. The Ottawa, Cancun and Versailles economic summit meetings, as well as the United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, gave rise to many hopes, which were very quickly dashed. Global negotiations, the immediate launching of which is seen every day to be an undeniable necessity, although promised, do not seem to be on the horizon.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“They are common problems because they pertain to the interdependence of States, and they require common solutions, without which the world economic situation will only deteriorate further. An analysis of the world economic situation shows on the one hand a more marked deterioration of trade relations and on the other hand a trend towards absorbing the crisis through selfish and isolated national policies. That is the way in which I have summarized the bitter observations in the World Economic Survey, 1981-1982: "Economic expansion decelerated markedly throughout the world... The deceleration was particularly intense in the developing countries, most of which experienced a significant fall in per capita incomes". The growth rates of the developing countries have been falling dangerously since 1978.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The need for the establishment of a new international economic order was seen by all to be a demand of our times. A number of obstacles along the way were eliminated after long and patient negotiations. The consensus which enabled progress to be achieved was not maintained into the final phase of the negotiations, although these pertained only to questions of procedure. Here again, in the final phase of the negotiations, the North-South dialogue lost its raison d'etre. A group of States, thinking only of the status of their national economies, blocked the dialogue that had been begun with a view to finding concerted solutions to common problems. These problems may be rerouted, they may be subordinated to temporary concerns, but their scope and their universality can only become more compelling.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“In an atmosphere of negotiation in which confidence does not reign or in which the stockpiling and improvement of weapons appear to be the only guarantees against widespread conflict, the basis on which the balance of strength rests is only a figment of the imagination. The arms race leads inevitably to war. Only the kind of political will that has made possible the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the International Development Strategy for the First and the Second United Nations Development Decade can lead to results in the negotiations on disarmament. The manifestation of this political will was, unfortunately, lacking during the launching of the global negotiations at the thirty-sixth session. Nevertheless, here again, the goal pursued was very close.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“However, people have never stopped preparing for war and have never stopped being in a state of war. Armament is seen to be a stabilizing element in international relations, whereas, on the contrary, the maintenance of such stability is conceivable only without the threat of the use of armed force. The second concept is that no disarmament is possible without the prior establishment of a climate of international confidence. Here again, the terms of the discussions on disarmament are inverted. Confidence is dissipated; it emerges through a prism whose pieces must be put together on the basis of a common agreement. Here the stumbling-block which has impeded negotiations on disarmament is again the balance of forces. Once again rhetoric has prevailed over the real will to negotiate.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The desire to impose solutions to international disputes through threats and the use of force is again common currency. Conceived and drawn up on the ruins of a monstrous war, the Charter of the United Nations was designed to open the world onto an era of reconciliation of hearts and minds. But, unfortunately, the spirit of competition continues. Nuclear experiments continue although, according to all estimates, the existing stockpile of nuclear weapons is more than capable of destroying our planet several times over. There is no agreement on the spiraling arms race, because the arguments advanced in the negotiations to restrain it are attached to concepts which tend to transform effect into cause. The initial concept can be reduced to the old adage, "If you want peace, prepare for war".”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“From Korea there does not come any glimmer of hope that would permit us to believe in the just redress of one of the errors of the last world war, which established arbitrary borders-an artificial line within a single country, all of whose people aspires profoundly to the unification of their common homeland. We hope that fraternal dialogue and fruitful co-operation will triumph so that the great Korean family will come together on the basis of the 10-point reunification plan, which is an infinite source of inspiration. As can be seen, an analysis of the international situation reminds one of the situation during the great fear of the year 1000. Today conflicts born of liberation struggles are taking on formidable dimensions. Brothers are tearing each other apart. The policy of diktat is resurfacing.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Those objectives can only be achieved without any outside interference in the internal affairs of an independent and sovereign State, whose current crisis is no reason for placing it under any trusteeship. It is also on the strength of the principles I have just mentioned that we appeal to our brothers on the Horn of Africa and in Kampuchea, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Cyprus honorably to end conflicts which can only expose them further to the appetites of the forces of domination and make the fruits of the struggle for emancipation increasingly bitter as well as dangerously weaken the front that the third world has decided to form for the restoration of its human and natural resources.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The crossroad for several civilizations which enriched each other, the cradle of a people which linked its destiny to that of others, Mali has made good-neighborliness one of the pillars of its foreign policy, The language that it desires to speak to its neighbors is that of sincerity, tolerance and respect for the basic principles which govern the existence of States. Mali is always open to dialogue, to constructive discussions which unite people around common basic interests. That policy of positive good-neighborliness also implies active solidarity among fraternal peoples faced with temporary difficulties. That is why our country constantly pursues its efforts within the African family to safeguard the national unity and territorial integrity of Chad.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The current crisis in our continental organization will be mastered. Eternal Africa will be able to draw from its age-old values the resources necessary to allow our unified organization to pursue its constant march towards happiness, progress and solidarity among African peoples. To live in peace means to establish and strengthen links of co-operation and tolerance of political and economic choices. That means non-interference in the internal affairs of other States and the strengthening of relations of good-neighborliness. The policy of good-neighborliness recognized by the United Nations is indubitably one of the most dynamic factors for the exploitation of the enormous potential which continued progress in science and technology makes available to nations.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)