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Cissokho

THE RECORD WRITES THIS SPEAKER AS CISSOKHO

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1975-09-24
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1977-09-24
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  1. “The Final Act of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, to which we subscribe fully, cannot make us forget the odious policy of apartheid, which still poisons South Africa, Southern Rhodesia and Namibia, while in Asia Korea remains divided with our complicity; Tel-Aviv persists in defying us in the Middle East despite all the relevant resolutions of our Organization on the tragic Arab- Israeli crisis; and the transnational companies continue constantly to undermine nationalist and progressive Governments. 118. Furthermore, in spite of the international disarmament agreements that have been concluded the arms race continues both horizontally and vertically. Every year $300,000 million are thrown away on arms, to the detriment of the economic, social and cultural development of mankind. 119.”

    1975-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 30 (1975)

  2. “The United Nations, its action blocked through the inertia of those Powers, sits passively by, watching flagrant violations of peace in the African, Asian and Latin American continents, and the steady worsening of the international situation. The destabilization policy embraced by some of those Powers continues to create insecurity in several regions of the world. 117.”

    1975-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 30 (1975)

  3. “But unhappily this development has been halted, if not destroyed, by the reluctance and lack of goodwill on the part of those same Powers which enjoy excessive rights in our Organization. 114. By an irony of fate has not the United States just used, on some pretext of universality, its right of veto in the Security Council to block the admission of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam and the Republic of South Viet Nam to membership in the United Nations? 115. Whether it is a question of problems of peace, decolonization, economic development or human rights, our decisions continue to come up against the contempt and obstinacy of those Powers wishing to safeguard their privileges of yore which have nothing in common with the lofty ideals of the Charter. 116.”

    1975-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 30 (1975)

  4. “The Organization, which consisted originally of 51 States, now has more than 140 Member States representing 95 per cent of the total population of the world. 113. Refusing to submit to the maneuvers of the two blocs that were sharing the world, the new States organized themselves, on the basis of their common destiny, into independent political forces. Thus the movement of the non-aligned countries, the Organization of African Unity and the Group of 77 came into being. Their participation in international life was to make a radical change in the balance of power within our Organization. Since then the goals of the Charter have taken on real meaning for Member States. Peace is no longer the privilege of Europe alone, which at the beginning was the center of interest for the concerns of the majority of founding Members.”

    1975-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 30 (1975)

  5. “That was why the tragic problem of apartheid, which was denounced in the United Nations in 1947 by India and other Member States, continued to rage in southern Africa, with the active support and complicity of the Western bloc, which dominated the Organization through the large number of its Members. All decisions were oriented towards the interests of that camp, and the third world occupied only a very marginal place. At the same time the cold war was continuing between the two blocs, and each tried to spread its sphere of influence or its hegemony throughout the world. Thus the arms race heated up in the two camps. 112. The appearance on the international scene of the nations of the third world, freed from colonial domination, was a determining factor in the development of the United Nations.”

    1975-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 30 (1975)

  6. “The concept of peace was obviously less universal in character than it is today. 109. That is why the United Nations remained indifferent to the colonial and imperialist wars that ravaged the continents of Africa, Asia and Latin America. The socialist countries were the only ones to give their diplomatic and material support. 110. That was also why in 1950 the United Nations became involved in Korea, in violation of the principles of the Charter, in what the doctrinaires of the cold war called the "digging-in of communism in South East Asia". 111.”

    1975-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 30 (1975)

  7. “Rather than drawing up a balance-sheet, my delegation would like to review its actions during its first 30 years of existence. 108. Although created, as the Charter proclaims, to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, and to promote social progress and better standards of life, it is none the less true that at the outset the United Nations was concerned only with the problems of the coexistence of the two blocs which emerged in Europe at the end of the Second World War. Allied to combat the Axis forces which threatened the very existence of both blocs, they were nevertheless bitterly opposed at the ideological level. Their only common ground in creating the United Nations was the fear of a renewal of Hitler's fascism. The safeguarding of international security was at that time envisaged for Europe alone.”

    1975-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 30 (1975)

  8. “Mali, which from the very beginning took the side of the Cambodian revolution, considers the victory of the heroic Khmer people as that of all the progressive forces throughout the world. My delegation therefore salutes the true representatives of the Royal Government of National Union of Cambodia present here and assures them of its fraternal and militant co-operation. 106. My delegation also wishes to express its satisfaction to Mr. Kurt Waldheim, the Secretary-General, for his ceaseless and untiring efforts both in New York and throughout the world in reinforcing the role of the United Nations in respect of the maintenance and strengthening of international peace and security. 107. This year we celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the United Nations.”

    1975-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 30 (1975)

  9. “In delaying for four months the restoration of the legitimate rights of the Royal Government of National Union of Cambodia in the United Nations they deliberately prolonged the sufferings of the Khmer people and lengthened the list of victims of the murderous war imposed by the supporters of reaction. 105. In fact, from December 1974 until March 1975, more than 200,000 persons were killed or wounded in the fighting between the patriots and the usurpers. That was the heavy price exacted from the Khmer people by the prevarications and the weakness of our Assembly in settling the Cambodian crisis. My delegation hopes that our Organization will always remember that, and bear it very much in mind in its future discussions on whatever problems of peace and international security it may have to deal with.”

    1975-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 30 (1975)

  10. “The debacle of the forces of aggression in Indo-China last March and April once again showed that the people are indomitable and that no material force in the world, however strong, can overcome their determination to live free and independent. 104. Today, the cliques of Thieu, Ky, Lon Nol and others, who have in so cowardly a fashion fled their countries, live in golden exile in Taiwan or somewhere on the American continent. Where now are the voices that were raised at the twenty-ninth session to contest the representative nature of the Royal Government of National Union of Cambodia and the Front of National Union of Kampuchea?”

    1975-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 30 (1975)

  11. “This tribute is also paid to the valiant Portuguese people, who in April 1974 joined hands with the oppressed people of Africa in fighting the Fascist and colonialist regime in Lisbon, thus opening up wide breaches on both flanks of the bastion of white power in southern Africa. My delegation has no doubt that these new States will make a valuable contribution to our work. 102. My delegation also addresses warm congratulations to the people of Papua New Guinea, which acceded to independence on the very day of the opening of this session. 103. Now the authentic representatives of the Khmer people have returned to us, and once more occupy the seats that are theirs, which for five years were occupied by puppets and traitors to the Cambodian nation in the service of international imperialism.”

    1975-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 30 (1975)

  12. “As to the just-concluded seventh special session, although it did not reach all its objectives, the results it did achieve are far from being negative; and in spite of the differences which exist among the parties and despite the tendentious comments, the session was, in our view, a success, in that it allowed us to renew the dialog between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres a dialog which had been interrupted during the sixth special session. 101. My delegation welcomes the presence among us of the worthy representatives of the brotherly peoples of Mozambique, the Cape Verde Islands and of Sao Tome and Principe, which have achieved their independence after bitter struggle. We pay a pious tribute to the memory of all those who have fallen while fighting for the triumph of the sacred cause of freedom in those countries.”

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  13. “Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Algeria, and President of the twenty-ninth session of the General Assembly, as well as of the seventh special session. Thanks to his integrity and personal efforts, a new dynamic spirit characterized the work of the General Assembly. 99. Among other important decisions to the credit of the twenty-ninth session were the suspension of the rebel State of South Africa and the recognition of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and to a homeland. Those are revealing signs of the changes that have been emerging within our Organization recently. Indeed, those decisions are unique in the annals of the United Nations, which has always been subjugated by private interests contrary to the spirit and the letter of the Charter. 100.”

    1975-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 30 (1975)

  14. “Sir, in electing you to the presidency of this thirtieth session, our Assembly wished to pay a tribute to your eminent statesmanlike qualities and, above all, to your country's constant support of the United Nations. Mali, which enjoys relations of friendship and co-operation with Luxembourg on the bilateral level as well as through the European Economic Community, can only rejoice at this choice. My delegation therefore extends to you its most heartfelt congratulations on this token of trust in you which has been manifested by the Assembly, and we wish to assure you of our frank and loyal co-operation. These congratulations go also to the Vice-Presidents and the other officers. 98. May I be allowed to take this happy occasion to congratulate once again my brother and friend, Mr.”

    1975-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 30 (1975)