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MYS (Head of Delegation)

lines on the record: 63
first: 1963-09-24
most recent: 1963-09-24
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: un-general-debate

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“We now find ourselves in the unsatisfactory and ironic situation in which the very nations the Organization has helped to liberate are, as Member States, denied equal opportunity to participate fully in its work. Time and again over the past years demands were made for a review of the Charter with the object of rectifying the situation. My delegation regrets to note that even today the view is expressed again that the time is still not auspicious for a general conference to review the Charter. Obviously we cannot wait indefinitely for this auspicious occasion to arrive.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“The Malaysian delegation will readily join all constructive endeavours towards strengthening the function of the Organization and enhancing its authority. 93. The situation in regard to membership in the principal organs of the United Nations is another problem for the solution of which immediate and sustained efforts must be made. It is true to say that the United Nations has served as a catalyst for the emergence of new, independent nations from colonial bondage. More than half the total membership of the Organization today consists of these new nations. Yet the composition of such principal organs as the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council remains unchanged from the situation in 1945 when the membership of the United Nations was less than half its size today.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“For this reason, and in order to ensure prompt peace-keeping operations in the future, the Malaysian delegation views it as urgently vital for this Organization to arrive at a satisfactory and workable formula by which in future the cries of small countries for help from external aggression are not again drowned in the fathomless depths of futile controversy. Unlike the big Powers with all the modern armaments at their disposal, the smaller countries are in no happy position to defend themselves in the event of external military aggression. To them the United Nations is the shield behind which they can consolidate their new-born freedoms. 92. This then is the true measure of the faith and confidence placed by the small countries, my own among them, in this great Organization of mankind.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“We are gratified, and not without a sense of justifiable pride, that the United Nations efforts, in which the smaller nations played a key role in many respects, have in large measure achieved the objectives set out by the Security Council and General Assembly resolutions. The Organization has travelled a long, hard road in bringing about what may be regarded as a satisfactory situation in the Congo today. But the journey is not yet ended. It would be a sad tragedy if for reasons of lack of finances the United Nations is compelled to withdraw where its continued presence, if only for a brief period more, may be found to be vital. 91.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“This is therefore an immediate problem of major importance, because not only does it affect the future of the Organization in the context of peace-keeping, but it has immediate bearing on the Congo, where the continued presence of United Nations personnel depends directly on adequate financing. 90. Because of its abiding faith in the United Nations as the guardian of the integrity and independence of new and militarily weak nations, my country, along with many others, with considerable sacrifice, had participated in the United Nations Operation in the Congo, by way of contributing troops to the United Nations Command.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“In paying its tribute to the Secretary-General, the Malaysian delegation wishes in particular to put on record the gratitude of the Malaysian Government and people to him for his positive response to undertake the ascertainment mission to which I have just referred. No doubt in undertaking this and other difficult and delicate tasks the Secretary-General has been inspired and moved by his high sense of responsibility and dedication to the cause of a just peace in the world. 89. The Organization has proven by its activities in the Congo and elsewhere its inestimable value as the only available international peace-keeping machinery. The problems relating to the cost of peace-keeping have unfortunately become complicated by controversy and if not solved in time might well impair the efficacy of the Organization.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“He was in the centre of the stage when the drama of the Cuban crisis was taking place, and the role he so courageously played helped to avert what seemed to be an imminent disaster. Under his guidance, the United Nations Operation in the Congo has achieved the restoration of peace and order in that country, brought an end to the secession of Katanga, and safeguarded the territorial integrity of the Congo, 87. He also responded promptly to the crisis in Yemen, and more recently he did not hesitate in meeting the request of the Heads of Governments of the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaya to ascertain the wishes of the people of Sabah and Sarawak in northern Borneo with regard to their desire for independence through Malaysia. 88.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“The prestige of the United Nations has also been enhanced as a result of the invaluable contributions it has made in the last several years towards the constant discussions relating to nuclear test cessation and disarmament generally. Moreover, it was in this very forum of the United Nations, more than anywhere else, that the wrath of world public opinion against nuclear testing has been strongly expressed. 86. During the relatively short period that he has been in office, the Secretary-General, U Thant, has immensely enhanced the authority and prestige of the United Nations and his own high office as a dynamic force for peace. He has done so by his ready response to meet challenging situations, by the bold initiative he has taken time and again in blunting the edges of conflict.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“It is not so much evidence of that audible sigh of relief to which I have referred, as a reassurance made to the three great Powers, initiators of the Treaty, by mankind that every other State in the civilized world puts them on their honour to pursue further the ideals they have engendered so that the first step that has been taken will not remain the sole step and that it will lead on to others. And having heard the ringing words of the three protagonists of the Treaty from this rostrum, the world lives in hope and in confident expectation of other amelioration of international tensions to follow, leading ultimately, we hope and pray, to general and complete disarmament. 85.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“The constant fear of conflict anywhere saps our energies and clouds our vision and, far as we may be from the centre of East-West controversies, the first result that we have learnt to experience in the close-knit world of today is the chilling fear of having to suffer the consequences of actions which we have not created and to which we have not contributed. 84. Mention has been made of the partial test ban Treaty which is perhaps the most significant event in recent human history. More than a hundred Governments, my own among them, have acceded to that Treaty. The sigh of relief that it evoked could be heard around the world. Cynics have permitted themselves the comment that this was a gesture without meaning.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“To countries like my own, whose history of, and experience in, independent existence is comparatively recent, the United Nations is the protective shield behind which we look forward to working out our own destinies and to being left in peace to develop our economies so as to fill the concept of political independence with the content of economic well-being. Many of us are desperately short of the good things of life and of the wherewithal with which to provide ourselves with them by our own effort.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, the President of the seventeenth session and the fourth special session and I need say no more than that, as generally acknowledged by all delegations, he set an example as President which any President should try to emulate. 82. That we meet at this historic session in a relaxed international atmosphere has been affirmed by every speaker on this rostrum. The speeches that we were privileged to hear from President Kennedy [1209th meeting] and from the Foreign Ministers of the Soviet Union [1208th meeting] and the United Kingdom [1222nd meeting] gave clear evidence of that relaxation of tension that mankind hopefully, if desperately, has been looking for. 83.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)
“Permit me at the outset to convey to you my warmest congratulations on your unanimous election as President of the eighteenth session of the General Assembly. I have listened to speaker after speaker on this rostrum pay sincere tribute to your qualities of head and heart, qualities that eminently fit you for the duties of this office, and there is not much left by way of compliment for me to utter. But may I say that during these last three weeks you have given evidence before our very eyes of the firmness and fairness with which you have conducted our deliberations, and that it is now more appropriate for me to say that you have, by your performance, fully lived up to the promise which those with more intimate knowledge of you predicted for you. 81. May I at this moment offer my sincere tribute to your predecessor and my good friend, Mr.”
1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)