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lines on the record: 131
first: 1979-09-24
most recent: 1992-09-24
sittings or episodes: 5
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“163. Mr. President, the Niger delegation welcomed with a feeling of profound satisfaction your election to the presidency of the thirty-eighth session of the General Assembly. We therefore associate ourselves with the warm congratulations addressed to you on your assumption of that highly responsible office in which we are certain you will, as Mr. Hollai last year, do useful work. A man of thought, but also a man of action, in the course of a long rich political career in the service of your country, Panama, in the United Nations and in other international bodies, you have acquired the competence and experience necessary for guiding our work. 164.”
1983-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 38 (1983)
“I should like to pay a well-deserved tribute to the Secretary-General for the clear and courageous manner in which he analysed the deep-rooted causes of the disorder in the present system of multilateral relations and set out certain guidelines which could be used as a basis for innovative action on the part of the Organization to establish a world order capable of meeting the aspirations of the peoples to peace, justice, freedom and economic and social progress. We are ready to play our part in this major battle, because we are aware that this is a question of saving the world from the cataclysm which lies in wait. As for the Niger, as has been stressed here by President Seyni Kountche "we are ardent supporters of peace, tireless workers for good-neighbourliness and fervent apostles of dialogue and understanding among nations".”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“In this connection we find in the report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization relevant comments on the development of United Nations action along such lines, because no organ is better able than this one, despite its insufficiencies and limitations, to offer the possibility of fostering a spirit of harmony, interdependence, solidarity and co-operation among nations.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The various economic conferences held in recent years, both within the framework of the United Nations and in other international bodies, have all shown the need for a reorganization of the present international economic and financial structures. In the light of the serious crisis which is shaking the world economy today, a restructuring of the present order has become a categorical imperative if we wish to spare mankind painful turmoil. We must accept the fact that no nation represented in this Hall, however powerful it may be, can reasonably think that it can do without the others. Attempts to seek isolated solutions to the serious economic problems of our world today are unquestionably doomed to failure. The concept of the interdependence of nations is today more than ever before of special significance.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The modalities of such action e been laid down by representatives in various international forums from Cancun to Toronto; but, for various reasons, the proposals that have been made have not been completely taken into account. People continue to maintain that a considerable increase in the capital of the two main international financial institutions is not needed. Some even continue to advocate limiting the relevant credit facilities for deprived peoples. There is certainly a basically negative and selfish attitude involved; it is embodied in the position of those who prevent ail progress towards the establishment of a more just and equitable new international economic order.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“In this connection and stressing that this difficult situation largely stems from the fact that international financial and economic structures have not adapted to the demands of the present world, President Seyni Kountche said the following at the thirty- sixth session of the General Assembly: "We shall spare the world from a very damaging economic confrontation only if together we overhaul North-South relations and work together for a more unified approach to the development of the world and for the well-being of mankind." The wealthy countries should become aware of that requirement and, although they, too, are affected by the crisis, they must understand that the recovery of their economy for which their citizens long require decisive action in favour of developing countries.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Their export revenues have plummeted, the cost of borrowing and servicing the debt has soared; they have been compelled to slow down the pace of implementation of their development programmes—or to make agonizing revisions. In some cases that has led to the cancellation of those programmes; in others, such as Chad, the effects of a long and disastrous war, added to those of the economic crisis, have created an even more tragic situation which only a vast international programme can remedy. That is the very similar picture which we find, with varying degrees of intensity, in the world economy today, from North to South, East to West, in the countries of the periphery as well as those at the centre. The destabilizing effects, internally and internationally, of such a situation can be easily foreseen.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Everywhere in the world one envisages the future with pessimism. In this climate of gloom, concern and almost panic, the fate of developing countries, and especially the poorest among them, is particularly alarming. As channels for a limited group of export commodities, developing countries today are facing a marked deterioration in their terms of trade—an evil which they have fought for many years now without success. They are therefore facing a catastrophic dwindling of their export revenues. At the same time, high interest rates on the main international financial markets and the rise in the value of the dollar have increased their loan and debt-servicing costs. They can only watch as the standard of living of their peoples drops sharply owing to galloping inflation.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The achievement of such conditions will allow the African countries to devote their efforts to the improvement of the living conditions of their peoples at this particular juncture in the international economic situation when things are already particularly difficult and continue to worsen. The world economy is today in a critical state of disruption which many meetings held in various parts of the world on the question have not been able to prevent. Those stages—New York, Geneva, Vienna, Paris, Cancun, Versailles and many others—have been glimmers of Hope quickly dashed. The disintegration of the economy has reached such levels that any prognosis today would be daring or haphazard. No one is attempting to do that, neither Governments nor even international financial and economic institutions.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The African peoples also expect of the international community in general and from the United Nations in particular energetic action to eradicate the apartheid and racial discrimination that are rife in the southern part of the African continent. They fervently hope and wish for the establishment in South Africa of political conditions that would allow everyone, without any consideration as to race, sex, language or religion, to participate in the building of a multiracial community like the one which is today being built in Zimbabwe, a country which formerly suffered from the evils of racial discrimination.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The Government of the Niger reiterates most energetically its condemnation of the illegal and continued occupation of Namibia by South Africa and its repeated acts of aggression against the front-line States. We hope that the international community will display the necessary upsurge of political will to lead Namibia to independence and thus allow the surrounding countries to work for their own economic and social development. In this context, it is important for the United Nations to think about establishing a massive aid programme for those countries which today are heroically bearing the burden of the unjust war imposed upon them by the racist regime in Pretoria.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Through manoeuvres which now no longer deceive anyone it is attempting to promote the establishment of institutions and bodies which would alter the authenticity of Namibia's independence into something artificial. The racist minority regime of Pretoria, strengthened by solid complicity, continues to flout and defy the international community under fallacious pretexts and with unreasonable demands. Therefore the United Nations is confronted with a deadlock in Namibia, responsibility for which lies entirely with South Africa—and no consideration, in particular one related to Angola's sovereignty, can hide that fact which was emphasized on 4 September at Lusaka by the heads of State and Government of the front-line States.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The hope raised by the United Nations plan for Namibia has still not been realized. In spite of information showing notable progress in negotiations for the implementation of the provisions of Security Council resolution 435 (1978), we note that five years after the adoption of that plan by the United Nations the electoral system has not yet been defined, the composition of the United Nations forces has not yet been agreed upon, and the cease-fire has not yet been decreed. During this time South Africa has, with impunity, continued its illegal occupation of Namibian territory, its pillage of its natural resources, and its outrageous acts of aggression against neighbouring countries.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“It is a situation which is clearly illegal and exceptionally painful for the Namibian people which is enduring it and fighting for its freedom; it is painful for the front-line States which, because of their support for that liberation struggle, expose themselves to repeated acts of aggression by South Africa; and it is painful for the United Nations, which has an historic direct responsibility for Namibia. Inspired both by its own foreign policy and the principles of the Organization of African Unity of the Niger intends, just as all of independent Africa, to draw attention once again to that situation and to the proposal of a rapid solution for the Namibian problem. It does so in the name of law and legality, in the name of morality and justice, and for the benefit of peace and international security.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Furthermore, we believe that a sincere use of the way courageously opened by the Twelfth Arab Summit Conference, held at Fez in September of this year, will allow the international community to restore its image in the eyes of the Palestinian people and of history. We say that in the hope that the constructive peace proposals unanimously adopted at Fez will be accepted by Israel and will not suffer the same fate which South Africa dealt to the United Nations plan for Namibia—another situation which persists and seriously concerns my Government owing to the threats it represents for the security of the African continent and for world peace. The situation prevailing in Namibia is known to everyone.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Against that background, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, whose thirteenth session of the Council of Ministers for Foreign Affairs the Niger was greatly honoured to host, urges all the States which love peace, liberty, justice and progress to work collectively within the United Nations for the adoption and implementation by the Security Council of a new resolution requiring in precise terms the Israeli withdrawal from all occupied Palestinian and Arab territories, including the holy city of A! Quds, and the guaranteeing of the inalienable national rights of the Palestinian people, namely, their right to return to their homeland, Palestine; their right to determine their own fate without foreign interference; and their right to establish an independent State on their national territory, under the leadership of the PLO.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“In the light of this holocaust of our time, faced with this great tragedy, it demeans the international community that its representatives continue to cling to their well-known positions and to conduct byzantine discussions on the texts of resolutions which, when adopted, remain dead letters. The memory of thousands of Palestinian martyrs and of the innocent victims of Sabra and Shatila cry cut to us, and call for decisive action from us to restore the usurped rights of the Palestinian people.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Pursuing its expansionist policy, Israel has successively annexed the holy city of Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, before launching its army upon the conquest of Lebanon, a large portion of whose territory is today occupied. At the same time, populations living in the occupied Arab territories are pitilessly subjected to ferocious repression which nothing can justify. Recent events in Lebanon, which in fact represent only a single episode in the strategy of conquest pursued by the Israeli State, prove—if any proof were needed—that neither vehement protests nor energetic condemnations are enough to thwart a genocidal undertaking which discredits the action of the United Nations as much as it makes guilty by omission almost the entire international community.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Thus far no action has been possible to halt the policy practised by Israel of systematic negation of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and the rights of the Arab and Lebanese people to peace and calm within their borders. It is a fact that Israel remains deaf to the disapproval, the constant appeals to reason and the condemnations of the international community. On the contrary, guided by hatred, blinded by military power, day after day displaying its growing for the decisions of the United Nations, Israel has adopted and is carrying out in an outrageous manner an unbridled policy of Judaization of Palestinian Arab lands through the modification of their geographic, historical, sociological and religious characteristics.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Similarly, the international community has on many occasions, within the United Nations as well as in other international forums, condemned the continued occupation of Arab territories by Israel and, on the basis of the principle of the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territories by force, has called for its total and unconditional withdrawal. But we must today note that the international community has not been able to take any specific action to ensure that the Palestinian people can exercise their inalienable legitimate rights, to restore to Arab sovereignty the territories illegally occupied by Israel, and to guarantee the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Lebanon.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The great majority of the States of our community recognize the PLO as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, as well as recognizing the absolute right of those people to self- determination and to the creation of a sovereign State on their own territory. There is also reason to recall that at the seventh emergency special session the General Assembly adopted by an overwhelming majority resolution ES-7/2, an important resolution reaffirming the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people to self- determination without foreign interference, as well as to independence and sovereignty, and stressing their right to create a sovereign State on their own national territory.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“But the fact remains that any mention of Palestine and Namibia results in flagrant and unpunished violations of international rules and customs, brutal oppression, the denial of the rights of peoples to self-determination and the invasion and occupation of neighbouring States. With regard to the question of Palestine, it should be noted that the international community as a whole has now finally accepted that the Palestinian problem is at the head of the drama which is tearing the Middle East apart, and that any solution to that conflict must necessarily involve the restoration of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“In the political arena, that failure is even more serious because it relates to problems which are at least as old as the United Nations itself and which the international community has assumed a direct moral and historical responsibility to resolve. I refer here to the problems of Palestine and the Middle East and the question of Namibia. To be sure, the United Nations has formally recognized the legitimacy of the struggle for self- determination of the peoples of those countries by granting observer status to their legitimate representatives, the PLO and the South West Africa People's Organization.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Such a situation is likely, if care is not taken, to do serious and lasting harm to the credibility of the Organization—a credibility which is, moreover, increasingly being challenged by international public opinion, which is disturbed and anguished because of the results achieved by United Nations action in areas as vital for mankind as those of disarmament, development and the maintenance of peace and security. Each of our peoples aspires to live in a world free of wars and conflict, where hunger, sickness and poverty are unknown. The events of today seem to indicate that this prospect is further away than ever, consequently revealing the inability of the Organization, and of the system of international relations as a whole, to respond effectively to the political and economic challenges which confront us.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The thirty-seventh session of the General Assembly is opening in an international context which is heavy with threats for all mankind, so true is it that the course of affairs of our world and the spirit guiding it remain dreadfully marked by violence, injustice, egoism, and ignorance or disregard of the principles and noble ideals which the United Nations adopted in its Charter in order to establish a world of peace and progress for all.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Hollai as President of the Assembly. Crowning his long diplomatic career, that choice constitutes a well-deserved tribute to his country, Hungary, for its positive contribution to mutual understanding among peoples and the strengthening of co-operation among States. Certainly, the reins which our President has taken over from Mr. Kittani of Iraq are difficult to hold firm. But we are convinced that his long and rich experience of world affairs, particularly in the United Nations system, will allow him to undertake the difficult task with the same wisdom, determination and efficiency as his talented predecessor, to whom I should again like to express the appreciation of the delegation of the Niger.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The annual gathering of representatives of virtually all the sovereign nations of the globe, and of affiliated or interested international institutions within the framework of the regular session of the General Assembly of the United Nations is always a source of great satisfaction and moral comfort to us. We see therein the signs of that ideal of tolerance which is inscribed in the Charter and which inspires us all, despite the different views we may hold about the various events which are at present rending the world. We also see therein the demonstration of our willingness to discuss our differences, not to say our divergences of opinion, and to seek together ways and means to solve or eliminate them. That ideal of tolerance and dialogue could hardly be symbolized more fittingly than by the gesture of the unanimous election of Mr.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Kurt Waldheim, who has placed his rare intellectual and moral qualities at the exalting service of this historic task of justice, freedom and progress of peoples, a task of harmony and assistance between nations. May he rest assured of the continued support of my Government. 265. May the work of this Assembly enriched by the experience and contribution of the Republic of Zimbabwe and of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, lead to the progress of the cause of peace and international security.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“These organizations of peasants, of young people, of professional organizations and development cells will be the crucible for reflection and the guiding power of our developing future society, which we are building up in unity, with determination, and removed from ideological considerations. In this task, as was so rightly said by President Kountche, "our instrument of work will be, above all, good sense and the philosophy of the land". 263. This is the exciting experience of Niger at present. It is thus that it hopes to conduct its development, and it hopes to do so in peace and security, which is why it will unfailingly continue to support the work of the United Nations and its noble ideals. 264. As I come to the end of my statement, I wish to pay solemn tribute to the daily action of the Secretary-General, Mr.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“This policy of development will be the fruit of national consensus, obtained through new institutions such as to ensure the inclusion of all strata of our society, their consultation by the public authorities and their active and responsible participation in the actions to be planned and taken. 260. We have undertaken the organization of the rural sector throughout our vast country, as well as the organization of the youth of Niger and of all professionals. 261. We have undertaken to establish in our villages, districts and countries, development cells which will expand until they cover the whole of the national territory at its different community levels. 262.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“It is in this context that the Supreme Military Council and the Government seek to establish in Niger, through an original formula, a society of development, that is, to use the words of President Kountche, "a morally healthy and balanced society, fundamentally united, which seeks the same ideal of justice and has the same will for progress". A national commission has been created for the establishment of that society of development. 259. That commission, which includes all social and professional strata of the nation, will have the task of studying and defining an adequate framework for a policy of accelerated development which will be coherent and harmonious for our country, and the end product of which will be the man of Niger himself.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“Thus, thanks to the determination of our people, under the guidance of the Supreme Military Council, we have undertaken, very often successfully, to mitigate considerably the effects of the drought and relieve our people of the agonizing spectre of famine; to build up our livestock; to extend our arable land through a sustained policy of agricultural irrigation; to improve our health and educational infrastructure; to increase the purchasing power of our workers and peasants; to increase our budget and our national investment funds substantially; and to endow our country with the appropriate infrastructure for communications and telecommunications. 257. The results we have achieved, far from having gone to our head, have comforted us in our determination to press on. 258.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“The launching of a triennial programme, and then of a five-year development plan, enabled us to record significant results and encouraging successes on the road to the liberation of our economy from natural factors, alimentary self-sufficiency and economic independence. 256.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“Inspired by this basic principle, the Supreme Military Council which governs the destiny of my country has undertaken, since it took office in April 1974, a vast programme of national reconstruction. 253. First of all, we had to take care of the most urgent needs, in other words, to rescue a whole people, threatened in its existence and dignity, from famine and the epidemics that accompany it; to save the capital represented by our livestock, which was being decimated by the implacable drought that afflicted the Sahelian countries. 254. Then we acted to reintroduce order into the affairs of State and to organize, on a healthier and more sound basis, the economic and social development of the nation. 255.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“The Lagos Plan of Action represents in our view an unequivocal expression of the political will of our Governments to undertake, for the benefit of the peoples of the continent, concerted action for the endogenous and self-sustained development of our economies which will lead to the creation of an African common market and an integrated African economic community: the African peoples will not fail to keep this rendezvous with history. 252. Having benefited from the lessons and fruitful contributions of international co-operation, which it has duly appreciated during its trying years of drought, Niger has learnt first to rely on itself and its own strength.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“We must see things as they are, but historical reality tells us unceasingly that our movement has no future if it does not take root and delays indefinitely the strengthening of economic solidarity amongst its members." That is why my country is assiduously taking care of the close links of co-operation it has established with fraternal and neighbourly countries, in the framework of bodies such as the Economic Community of West African States, the Niger River Commission, the Conseil de l'entente and the Conference of Saharan States, to quote but a few. 251. That is why Niger is also gratified at the highly positive results of the first Conference devoted to economic problems convened by the Heads of State and Government of the OAU on 28 and 29 April this year at Lagos.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“As stated by the head of State of Niger at the Sixth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held in Cuba from 3 to 9 September 1979: "The trap in which we are in danger of remaining for a long time consists in believing that the future of the nations of the third world is in the hands of others, and that horizontal co-operation is a remote domain, only accessible in the future.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“Niger nevertheless will continue, despite the disappointment and discouragement brought about by the stale-mate in the world, to strive, together with other nations in the third world, for the establishment of a new international economic order. We still nurture the hope that despite the many obstacles and the lack of understanding we have noticed in the past negotiations, wisdom will finally prevail over the selfishness of groups, in the interest of mankind as a whole. 250. My country firmly believes in North-South co-operation, despite the present difficulties; but the nations of the third world must understand that the North-South dialogue cannot in itself bring a solution to the many problems which delay and complicate their development efforts.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“Paralysed by an inward-thinking public desirous of keeping what they have acquired in their consumer society, subjected simultaneously to the contradictory influences of antagonistic pressure groups, those countries are unable to contribute positively to the multilateral negotiations aimed at ensuring the stabilization of currencies, the regularization of raw materials markets and the establishment of trade on a basis of equality and mutual benefit." 248. Among those objectives, stabilization of prices of raw materials is for my Government a matter of special concern because the drop in the price of some of our products is distressing proof of the narrowness of vision and inability of the wealthy to give willing support to our attempts to move towards economic and social development 249.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“These repeated failures of the efforts made so far to establish the new international economic order may be explained by the delaying tactics and hesitation of the industrialized countries which, compared to the nations of the third world, do not show the same awareness of the grave dangers threatening the world or the same political will to face up to them. 247. The head of State of Niger, Colonel Seyni Kountche, stressed that state of affairs on 15 April last when he declared: "The hopes for a solution at the world level will be disappointed so long as the industrialized States show the i same inability to learn objectively the lessons to be drawn from the evolution of power relations in the world since 1973.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“The launching, in the early 1970s, of the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade suffered the same fate. The negotiations entered into following the sixth special session in 1974, and designed to provide new bases for economic relations between the States of the North and those of the South, did not lead, as was hoped for, to the gradual process of the establishment of the new international economic order. The fine plans of action so arduously and patiently elaborated at Lima, Buenos Aires, Vienna and New Delhi have not begun to be applied. A few days ago, the eleventh special session, held to reactivate the North-South dialogue, ended its work in this same hall without there being agreement, after countless reports, on even the procedure to be followed during these global negotiations. 246.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“In particular, emphasis has been placed on the despair and poverty in which the greater part of mankind lives, the ever-increasing indebtedness and impoverishment of the third world countries, the implacable encroachment of the desert and the famine which besets or threatens entire populations in many regions of the world. 243. It has also been emphasized that the present international economic order is cynical and unjust, that it is the carrier of potentially dangerous germs, even for the seemingly uncaring empire of the rich. 244. We paradoxically note that all efforts made to remedy this serious situation have thus far been doomed to failure. 245. The First United Nations Development Decade ended without achieving its objectives.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“The continued deterioration of the world economy, accelerated by the steady worsening of the terms of trade, the ever-widening scientific, economic and technological gulf between developed and developing countries, the disarray in the international monetary system, and the serious food problems confronting most of mankind will lead our countries and peoples, if we are not careful, towards a disaster whose consequences we have barely begun to assess. 241. Much has been written and said about this sorry state of affairs and its distressing prospects. 242.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“Niger firmly believes in the sacred and inviolable nature of sovereignty and independence of all States and in the right of each people to endow itself with the political, economic and social regime of its choice. Niger, together with nations that love peace, liberty and equality, will continue to strive for the withdrawal of all foreign occupation forces and to oppose, as in the past, the recurrence of such actions. 239. I mentioned earlier the world economic crisis among the situations which diminish the hope born of the adoption of the Charter of the United Nations, and which do not give us cause for optimism when we consider the present world situation objectively. 240.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“As we continue our analysis of the present world situation, we cannot fail to be struck with amazement and indignation at, and to express our total reprobation of, the all too frequent recourse to certain actions that are prejudicial to detente, peace and international security. Time after time, we have witnessed these past years the brutal incursion by foreign forces into sovereign and independent States Members of the United Nations and of the non-aligned movement. 238. Those brutal incursions by foreign forces into the territories of the Afghan Republic and Kampuchea are, in our eyes, inadmissible and intolerable because they run counter to all the rules of international law.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“Niger and its people, like the whole of the Islamic community and other peace-loving and security-loving peoples, deplore the conflict between two neighbourly sister countries with which my country shares the sacred values of Islam—that religion of peace, tolerance, brotherhood and love. I should like to reiterate, on behalf of my Government, the appeal addressed on 24 September last by President Seyni Kountche for an immediate cease-fire and the establishment of an appropriate framework for a peaceful settlement of the dispute between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Iraq. 237.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“In this connection, it must be clearly understood that, in our view, there can be no just, comprehensive and durable solution of the Middle East crisis without the participation on a footing of equality of the PLO, the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, in all efforts, deliberations and conferences dealing with the question of Palestine and the situation in the Middle East. 234. While southern Africa and the Middle East call for and deserve greater attention by our Organization, it is equally true that many other hotbeds of tension continue to shake the world. The proliferation of such bloody, often fratricidal, confrontations constitutes a serious threat to the already frail balance that governs the survival of mankind. 235. How long will that balance hold? 236.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“It will be readily understood that my Government proclaims its rejection of any acquisition of territory by force, its condemnation of the desecration by Israel of the Holy Places in Jerusalem and the transfer to that city of the capital of the Zionist entity, as well as its full support for all the resolutions adopted in various international bodies calling on Israel to withdraw unconditionally from all Arab territories occupied since 1967. 233. In this same context, my Government denounces the repression, the harassment and the terror to which Israel has resorted against the Arab populations in the occupied territories, condemns its continued aggression against Lebanon and proclaims its unreserved support of the just cause of the Palestinian people in its struggle to regain its inalienable and imprescriptible rights.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“The situation in the Middle East constitutes for my Government another source of concern and disquiet because it is potentially explosive and dangerous for international peace and security. Situated squarely at the crossroads between North Africa and Africa south of the Sahara, having had, since time immemorial, fruitful relations with Arab nations with which it shared a common Islamic culture and civilization and inspired, in all its international actions, by the principles of non-alignment, Niger cannot remain indifferent at the continued occupation of Arab territories by the State of Israel, the latter's repeated aggression against Lebanon and the tragedy of the Palestinian people. 232.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“My Government will never cease to proclaim the profound aversion and disgust it feels regarding racism and apartheid, to decry the collaboration which South Africa enjoys and to support unfailingly the liberation struggle carried on by the peoples of Namibia and South Africa to recover their dignity, to win their freedom and to participate democratically in the affairs of their country. 230. I am happy in this connection to avail myself of this opportunity at this session to reiterate to the friendly delegation of Zimbabwe the warm congratulations of my Government on its recent admission to this Organization. This is a just tribute paid to the brave people of Zimbabwe, which fought for so many long years for the triumph of freedom and justice. 231.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)