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1971-09-24
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1974-09-24
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  1. “No graver insult could be offered to the proponents of that civilization, for after more than four centuries in our continent, all Portugal does is brazenly exploit the resources and barbarously administer the population. Incapable by itself of achieving the level of economic and social development enjoyed by the rest of postwar Europe, incapable by itself of stemming the revolt of the African populations under its administration, Portugal appeals for assistance to South Africa, Rhodesia and all the Governments and associations for which a pound of copper or cobalt is worth more than the life of an African. 165. The world is now in an era of detente. Portugal, for its part, has learned nothing from the past quarter of a century but violence, to which the populations of Guinea (Bissau), Angola and Mozambique have found a fitting response.”

    1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)

  2. “For some time now international relations have benefited from the informed analysis of reciprocal positions and have been enriched by the opportunity for better mutual knowledge and appreciation. This irreversible current is, nevertheless, beset by serious obstacles condoned if not abetted by passivity and indifference. 163. The despicable colonial system practiced by the Portuguese Government, which is unique in the annals of history, is aimed not only at stripping the peoples of Guinea (Bissau), Mozambique and Angola of their identity, but also at perpetuating foreign domination in Africa. 164. Portugal claims to be defending Western and Christian civilization in Africa.”

    1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)

  3. “The most important question that can face us is whether, in the logic which should guide us, it is not time to put an end to myths and empty intellectual exercises, and to recognize that the rights of the People's Republic of China should not be impaired by voting procedures. We hope that the General Assembly will take this view since it is for the Peking Government to find solutions to its problems commensurate with the greatness of its genius. 161. In not disappointing this hope, we shall be doing the work of peace, just as we shall be doing by reconsidering our positions on questions which directly concern the freedom and dignity of millions arbitrarily subjected to the rigors of regimes whose arrogance, more than a challenge, is an insult to our Organization. 162.”

    1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)

  4. “The People's Republic of China has responded to this injustice with the dynamism and cordiality of its relations with all peace-loving and freedom-lovingStates. 159. We were extremely gratified at the beginnings of a rapprochement between the United States of America and the People's Republic of China. We were also gratified by the argument developed by the Nixon administration to the effect that it was for the Chinese and the Chinese alone to settle their domestic problems. It is, indeed, neither for our respective States nor for our Organization to do these things. But it is our responsibility and our duty, since we are speaking of peace, not to create other factors of tension which might make peace impossible. 160.”

    1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)

  5. “It is paradoxical indeed that those who refer to such policies are the very same who support with their full material and financial weight regimes whose avowed objective is to destroy the moral and human principles that govern our Organization. The question that concerns us is to measure the gravity of the wrongs done to that country which, despite hostility from all sides, is undertaking, in conditions of order and peace, one of the greatest revolutions in human history. 158. For over 20 years an injustice has been perpetuated against the People's Republic of China, and yet this has not prevented it from making its effective contribution to the welfare of millions of people in new countries facing the harsh exigencies of economic and social development.”

    1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)

  6. “Similarly, how can we be expected to believe political fictions at a time when their authors themselves are proceeding to correct mistakes made, at a time when tensions born of ideological confrontation stood in the way of a proper appreciation of political reality? 156. It would be inexcusable to make good one mistake by another and it would be even more inexcusable to deny the oneness of the Chinese State. 157. I need not emphasize the legitimacy of the representation of the People's Republic of China in terms of the size of its population or by making references to its domestic and foreign policy.”

    1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)

  7. “There are so many problems before us for reflection, the time is so short and the demand of the peoples so urgent that only if we tackle them with courage have we any chance of at last attaining one of the fundamental objectives of the Charter to save future generations from the scourge of war and from destruction. 155. It has already been stated that political courage consists in seeking the truth and telling it. Is it not to belie the truth to believe that the United Nations can advance towards its objective of universality while denying one of the greatest States in the world the rights which it enjoys as a founderMember of our Organization?”

    1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)

  8. “My delegation believes that the international Organization can attain this objective only by correcting its errors of 1955. It is our hope that the postponement of the Korean question to the twenty- seventh session of the General Assembly does not mark the beginning of a new strategy on the part of those whose interests are opposed to its consideration. 153. The United Nations must, in the interests of objectivity, dissolve the so-called United Nations Commission for the Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea and withdraw the troops which, under the cover of the United Nations, are occupying the southern part of the country, where their presence is contrary to the ideals of peace of the Charter. 154.”

    1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)

  9. “I hope that this fundamental reality will be understood by the Government of the United States of America and its allies, and that they will accede to the impatience of their own peoples and of the whole world by unconditionally withdrawing their troops from the Far East. 151. The latest seven-point proposal of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South VietNam constitutes, we believe, a reasonable basis for negotiation. To allow the IndoChinese the freedom to work out their own political, economic and social order seems to us to be the only way of ensuring a just peace in the region. 152. This consideration, valid for Indo-China, is equally so for Korea. The contacts recently instituted by the Korean Red Cross services are the latest signs in the process of peaceful unification.”

    1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)

  10. “The tragic reality with which we find ourselves faced today is that after more than a year, the war, going beyond the frontiers of VietNam, has spread into Cambodia and been stepped up in Laos. Thinly-veiled interference in the domestic affairs of States has engulfed the Indo-Chinese peninsula in flames, where guns and napalm are the only elements on which it is believed possible to build the greatness of a civilization. 150. Faith in democracy and in the sovereign exercise of rights which imply freedom cannot be destroyed by force of arms. That faith and that sovereignty of rights are not subject to negotiation.”

    1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)

  11. “My Government is following with the same deep concern the developments which, for nearly 30 years, have brought grief to the peaceful populations of the Far East. The heroic struggle of the People's Army of VietNam, supported by the whole of its people, led to the Geneva Agreements of 1954 whose proper implementation would have permitted the peaceful reunification of that artificially divided country. The provisions of those Agreements are binding on all States and no attempt to thwart their implementation can be justified in terms of international obligations. 149. In 1969 and this was said last year we had the hope that specific acts in favor of peace would follow the statement made in this Assembly by President Nixon [1755th meeting].”

    1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)

  12. “Our Organization would do useful work in that part of the world if its present efforts should result in the restoration to the peoples of the Middle East of their inalienable rights. Here, we are thinking above all of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians reduced by the political blindness of Israel to the status of stateless persons. However, these involuntary exiles, dependent on the uncertain generosity of States to satisfy their most elementary needs, have not given up. They are the vanguard of a fight which is our fight. And we would be failing in our duty if we refused them what they have never ceased to demand of us that they be permitted to return to their homeland and live there in peace. 148.”

    1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)

  13. “It should therefore use the Charter to induce this Member State to respect the principles to which it freely acceded. 145. For its part, my Government is ready to cooperate in the quest for any solution based on Security Council resolution 242 (1967). But before all else, the international community must require Israel unconditionally to withdraw from the Arab territories occupied by force. 146. There is a real chance of peace in the Middle East. But if it should unhappily go unheeded in the flush of transient military victories or the refusal to bow to the legitimate national demands of all the communities in the area, then a situation would arise for whose dramatic consequences we would bear full responsibility. 147.”

    1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)

  14. “Here, the exercise to which we must immediately devote ourselves undoubtedly concerns the Middle East where misleading ashes cover a vast arsenal of war which can lead us at any time into a third world catastrophe. 143. My Government, of course with certain reservations, greeted the various moves which led to the cease fire in the Middle East . It had hoped that the cessation of hostilities would speed the search for a solution if not global, at least partial of the crisis. However, this hope was to fade before the utter stubbornness of the Israeli Government, which has disdainfully rejected all attempts to settle the crisis, particularly the Jarring proposals and the Rogers plan. 144. This negative attitude does great harm to the prestige and authority of our Organization.”

    1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)

  15. “If its approaches differ according to the interests at stake, the objective is always the same. Peace must be just and honorable. The image of troubled peace reflects that of our own incapacity to rise to the political responsibilities which, by delegation, are entrusted to us by the community of peoples. Our efforts should be to adorn that image and at last to give the nations once again that strength of faith which they tried to place in our Organization at the time of its creation. 141. To restore harmony wherever stubbornness or the lust for power create explosive situations, to refuse to condone policies of humiliation or of abdication, to combat racial hatred and the strictures of dogma, to offer occasions of balanced development are all objectives for which acceptable solutions would be possible if we put our heads together. 142.”

    1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)

  16. “To be sure, science has opened to our hopes vast horizons whose extent and depth no longer turn our head, but outer space linkups, walks on the moon, and other scientific exploits can have no real meaning unless, thanks to the concerted efforts of all, sickness, ignorance and malnutrition give way to a better economic future for mankind. 139. How fine this hymn to victory would have been if the courage which enabled man to conquer nature had been directed more towards the search for a new economic order and if, above all, it had been put at the service of justice, equality and freedom! 140. The provisions of the Charter of the United Nations are complementary. Peace, which it is our duty to seek with patience and intelligence, concerns mankind as a whole.”

    1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)

  17. “There is no doubt that since the end of the last session, human intelligence and courage have achieved surprising things. The artificial frontiers born of ideological antagonisms which we pointed out have been somewhat blurred. The political will of States or groups of States to open their doors to one another for the sake of better understanding has unquestionably led to a better grasp of the forces at issue, thanks to a more realistic analysis of the international facts which govern our existence. This realism, illustrated by the progressive lifting of the absurd quarantine which until now had confined one of the biggest States of the world, is one of the most encouraging signs of our ' times. The motives behind these political phenomena would not deserve attention if they did not also concern the welfare of men.”

    1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)

  18. “135. Mr. President, may I first of all extend the warmest congratulations of the delegation of the Republic of Mali on your brilliant election to the presidency of the twenty- sixth session of the General Assembly. In so doing, I would not wish to forget Mr. Hambro whose task it was last year to conduct the difficult proceedings which marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the United Nations. 136. The ideal of peace, which for almost 30 years has sufficed to maintain mankind in a state of relative security, today deserves our devoting to it all the resources of our intelligence and all the determination that we as political leaders can muster. 137. In this regard, the birthday wishes extended last year to the United Nations in the form of the slogan "Peace, Justice and Progress" should henceforth pass from words to deeds. 138.”

    1971-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 26 (1971)