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first: 1976-09-24
most recent: 1986-09-24
sittings or episodes: 7
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“Our fight developed and is developing through co-ordination of action, in the unity of the African countries. We know very well that the secret of victory is in the unity and co-ordination of efforts of all the liberation movements and other forces genuinely interested in independence. It is through this well-defined unity that it will be possible to isolate and denounce all opportunist and puppet forces that pretend to accept situations of compromise with imperialism. 228. Victory is inevitable because unity has been reached on objectives. But we still have to reinforce this unity in order to constitute one solid force in a position to confront in all domains the desperate and last-minute maneuvers engaged in by imperialism in an attempt to perpetuate its domination in Africa.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“The victories in Angola and Mozambique, together with the actions of support in the United Republic of Tanzania, in Zambia, Botswana and all over Africa, facilitated the escalation of the struggle for the liberation of southern Africa. The development of action by the movements of liberation in the struggle against the common enemy, whose presence constitutes a permanent threat to our independence and to the normal development of our countries, marks an unequivocal and irreversible trend towards the liquidation of colonialism in Africa. 226. The international support of friendly countries contributed to the victory of our people. We do not forget this help, just as we shall make any sacrifice to help unconditionally the peoples struggling for their freedom. 227.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“The fight developed by the people of the former Portuguese colonies constituted an example and a victory for other peoples still under colonial domination. The victorious peoples of the new countries, tempered as they were by the experiences of their own struggle, were very conscious of the fact that their liberation would not be complete as long as there were countries dominated by racist minority regimes. 225. At this moment, our attention is focused on the situation in southern Africa. With the victory of the people of the former Portuguese colonies, the last bastions of colonialism felt themselves threatened.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“We support the efforts made in trying to reach solutions by consensus, which will make it possible to arrive at a workable convention accepted by a significant majority of States, and which will also contribute to the guarantee of international peace and security, In this context, effective mechanisms must be created against those who intend to profit from their present advantage in technology and know-how to launch still another attempt at colonization based on the law of the stronger. 224. Let me now turn to the liberation of southern Africa, which is the fundamental task today. With the defeat of Portuguese colonialism, a new phase began in the arduous fight of the African people for independence and the end of oppression.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“The exploration and exploitation of the depths of the sea, the common patrimony of humanity, must benefit the international community, and we continue to believe that the Conference will find a way to prevent the granting of privileges in a discriminatory manner to States on the basis of their degree of economic development or of their socio-political system. 222. An international authority reflecting the predominant tendency in the world today will prevent the monopolization of the sea-bed area by the big capitalist companies and thus take part in the fight against the plunder of the natural resources of the globe by a privileged minority. 223.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“This means that the Nations of this Organization are constrained to assist in the transformation of something that formerly horrified them, giving rise to their behavior in the colonial period, a process designed expressly to transform ignorance, hunger, misery, unemployment, sickness and, finally, alarming economic and technical backwardness, into social, economic, technical and technological progress capable of bringing Mozambique closer to equality with the developed countries. 221. In the last few years several sessions of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea have taken place under the capable direction of Mr. Amerasinghe. We are confident that the new convention on this subject will not discriminate against any State or group of States.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“In so far as Mozambique is concerned, we think that it is the obligation of the United Nations as well as of its individual Member States to help in the consolidation of our independence. The role that they performed in the conquest of independence of the People's Republic of Mozambique, obligates them to support our national reconstruction on the premise that it will lead to the prosperity of this country.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“The imperialist countries must not try to justify their customary sabotage of the efforts of the developing countries by interpreting our attempt to achieve economic independence and the necessary equilibrium in our relations as a declaration of war or as a confrontation. 219. If we wish to reach in harmony recognized objectives of international economic co-operation, the more technically and economically developed countries should refrain from threatening the developing countries. On the contrary, developed countries should realize that the existing economic system is based on injustice to the developing countries. Those responsible for this injustice would gain dignity and respect if they recognized this reality and helped change it. 220.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“We believe that we will succeed in solving these problems because today we rely on a growing number of friendly countries, among them the socialist countries with which we have agreed to co-operate on the basis of mutual help and progress, within the just principles advocated by the non-aligned countries and the Group of 77. 218. The People's Republic of Mozambique believes in the effectiveness of co-operation among the developing countries, based on individual and collective self-reliance, and invites the developed countries to support such efforts. The People's Republic of Mozambique does not see this as any kind of confrontation.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“We encounter obstacles to the measures taken, since most of the time the big capitalist companies refuse to furnish us with the products that we need for our industry, invoking fallacious pretexts designed to impose on us an economic system serving their interests, and not those of our people. 217. Nevertheless, basing our efforts on the principle of self-reliance, we have been able to maintain the productive process through the participation of the workers and of the administrative commissions named by the Government in a democratic search for the conditions needed to improve productivity.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“However, for the development of the emerging industry which was beginning to take shape in Mozambique, we have encountered difficulties in the international markets to which colonialism had linked the economy of our country; that link today impedes in one way or another our access to economic independence, designed in this way to keep us forever in thrall to the most aggressively imperialistic circles. 216. Our efforts in Mozambique are the target of economic sabotage by the administrations of private enterprise with interests in our country, threatening the destruction of the few means of production that we have.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“This will permit the consolidation of our independence and the truly independent choice of the road to follow for the effective utilization and development of the human material potential of our country. 215. The People's Republic of Mozambique has made significant efforts in this direction, especially through the creation of communal villages, a strategy for the development of productive forces in the agricultural sector as a basis for creating the necessary conditions for promoting industries.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“We want the development of our country to be integrated in the context of the achievement of equitable world socio-economic relations aimed at the promotion of the well-being of mankind in both developing and developed countries. 214. The eighth session of the Central Committee of the Frente de libertafao de Mozambique [FRELIMO] decided to undertake a generalized political and organizational offensive in the field of production. The development of this offensive campaign will permit us to consolidate our independence and continue forward on the road to national reconstruction. To this end we must reconvert our economy, eliminating the relations of dependency on the minority regimes of Rhodesia and South Africa, the results of colonialism.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“It becomes imperative for the international community to understand that only a radical transformation of production relations can end the exploitation of many by man, a requisite condition for true economic independence. The establishment of a new economic order must be based on the sovereign equality of all the countries in the world. 212. Reiterating our support and commitment to the decisions taken at the Colombo Conference, we urge the States Members of the United Nations to support the declaration and other decisions of that summit on this issue [see A/31/197]. 213. Here I would like to relate the .question of the new economic order to our own experience in the struggle to achieve economic independence.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“We believe that the monopolizing of technology processes by the developed countries has led to several unsatisfactory features which call for immediate substantive and institutional remedial action if transfer of technology is to be effected in order to achieve the targets set for the developing countries in the Lima and Manila Declarations. 210. Under these circumstances, the new economic order will not become a reality until the developing countries reach economic independence, breaking with their traditional role as producers of raw materials and buyers of manufactured goods. With this in mind, it is indispensable to direct the common efforts of the countries of the large United Nations family to establish the heavy industry in the developing countries. 211.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“We believe that many of the development requirements of the developing countries could be met if a substantial part of the resources released by disarmament measures of the world's main military powers could be used to promote the economic development of developing countries. 209. Fourthly, in industry and transfer of technology, it is unquestionable that industrialization represents a dynamic instrument for the social and economic progress of the developing countries. We believe that it is also linked to the promotion and expansion of trade, not only amongst developing countries but also with the developed countries. The redeployment of appropriate industries necessary for economic development should be expedited.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“The continuing diversion of qualified manpower and of material and financial resources from peaceful economic and social purposes to an unproductive and wasteful arms race not only widens the current economic gap between developed and developing countries but also frustrates the purposes and objectives of the Second United Nations Development Decade, which envisaged a transfer of substantial resources from the developed countries to the developing countries as a consequence of reduced armament. The flow of financial resources to the developing countries amounted to only about $20 billion in 1975, in contrast to the expenditure on armaments, which has now reached $300 billion per annum.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“This unprecedented situation is not the product of conjunctural factors, but the reflection of the structural crisis that characterizes present economic relations, which stem from the colonial and neo-colonial policy of imperialism. As a result, most developing countries have over the years depleted their reserves and accumulated large external debts, a good portion of which entails heavy interest and amortization obligations. It has been estimated that the external indebtedness of these countries, which was over $100 billion in 1973, will be double that amount by the end of 1976. 208.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“Furthermore, with the exception of a few forward-looking developed countries, there has been no genuine attempt on the part of the developed countries to reorganize and reform the existing inequitable and unbalanced world trade system to conform to the urgent development requirements and priorities of the developing countries. 207. Thirdly, new terms for negotiations on their external debts (many millions of dollars of foreign debts for developing countries). There has been a phenomenal rise in the deficit of the balance of payments of developing countries, which increased from about $12.2 billion in 1973 to $33.5 billion in 1974 and to over $40 billion in 1975. Some estimates indicate that this figure could reach $112 billion by 1980 given the present trends.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“However, it should be noted that the agreements concluded between some developed countries and developing countries constitute a hopeful sign in this field of access to markets. The generalized system of preferences, though a useful scheme of trade liberalization, needs substantial improvement. Its limited coverage, particularly in respect of products of export interest to developing countries, and especially the least developed countries, and its temporary nature are a matter of major concern. Progress in the multilateral trade negotiations has been slow and its focus has been narrow.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“The decline in their real value is continuing and is today assuming disquieting proportions as a result of the staggering rise in the prices of manufactured goods, food-stuffs, capital goods and services imported by developing countries. This situation is seriously affecting the efficacy of their efforts and puts a brake on their development. 206. Secondly, improvement of the conditions for the access of goods produced by developing countries to the markets controlled almost entirely by developed countries. Despite the continuing assurance by some of the developed countries that they would relax and eliminate trade barriers for the products of developing countries, progress so far has not been satisfactory.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“Within this context, developing countries have fought and are still fighting in order to bring about new relations in the following fields: first, the price of raw materials produced by them, which in great part end up in the factories of the developed countries. The foreign exchange earnings of the developing countries depend basically on their exports of raw materials and primary commodities. The relative improvement of the level of prices of some of these commodities, oil for example, in 1973/74, which was short-lived, did not at all compensate for the deterioration in the terms of trade which characterized the post-war period.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“At the same time the position of the developing countries has invariably deteriorated. 204. The struggle by developing countries to establish a more just international economic order does not require any further explanation for it emerges within a situation that can only be classified as relations of exploitation of the developing countries by the capitalist Powers. We are convinced that the new economic order has to be viewed in its proper perspective, namely the effective struggle against the unscrupulous exploitative and oppressive practices of transnational corporations and in the general struggle against imperialism and neo-colonialism. 205.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“My delegation would like to reiterate its support for the political declaration of the Fifth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries [A/31/197, annex I], calling for the convening of an extraordinary session of the General Assembly of the United Nations to examine the problem of disarmament, to promote and elaborate a program of priorities and recommendations and to study the question of the convening of a world conference on disarmament. 203. The international economic system that was established after the Second World War brought unprecedented expansion and prosperity to the developed countries. Since the Second World War the world has seen not only an enormous capacity of production but also a tremendous consumption capacity in the developed countries.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“But since such an exercise is practically impossible, 1 shall confine my remarks to some of those items which my delegation believes require foremost attention. On the problem of disarmament it is lamentable that, in spite of the repeated recognition in this General Assembly as in the other international forums of the danger of the arms race and the stockpiling of armaments, particularly nuclear armaments, a solution capable of bringing tranquility to humanity has not yet been reached. On the contrary, we witness a deliberate resistance by the imperialist countries to the effective creation of denuclearized zones. Here I wish to refer to the countries that continue to support South Africa in the creation of its nuclear force. 202.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)
“Before I start my statement on the agenda items I should like to pay once more the homage of my country to the memory of the great leader of the Chinese people whose thoughts inspired the revolutions of many peoples in the world, Chairman Mao Tsetung. Since the President of my country had the opportunity to send a message to the Chinese people expressing the feelings and gratitude of the Mozambican people for the role played by China and by Mao Tsetung in our struggle for liberation, I will simply reassure the Chinese delegation of the heartfelt sincerity of that message and of our continued revolutionary co-operation. 201. The items on our agenda are of such great importance that it is tempting to address oneself to all of them.”
1976-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 31 (1976)