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Holyoake

THE RECORD WRITES THIS SPEAKER AS HOLYOAKE

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1968-09-24
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1969-09-24
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  1. “My Government has played a full part in the celebration of the Year in New Zealand. We have become party to two additional conventions, and others are at present under consideration. Non-governmental organizations in New Zealand, with assistance from the Government, have undertaken a substantial programme of activities over the year. Nineteen-sixty-eight has seen a great deal of progress within many Member nations. 45. But there are a number of countries for which this year has been a much less happy one, reminding us that in drawing up standards of human rights the United Nations has really only made a beginning. 46. We in New Zealand have been deeply distressed to learn of the loss of innocent life and of the terrible hardship and suffering caused by the violent and bloody struggle in Nigeria.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

  2. “My Government, in considering the pace at which further political advances are to be made, has been and will continue to be guided by the wishes cf the people of the Territories — in this case Niue and the Tokelaus. We have repeatedly made it clear that it is for them to make the fundamental decisions concerning their future at a time that they themselves select. Surely that is the essence of self-determination. 44. In this International Year for Human Rights the Assembly will, of course, review the progress achieved in the twenty years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration. The rights of the individual have long been recognized, and respected, in New Zealand. A few weeks ago we celebrated the seventy-fifth anniversary of the introduction of female suffrage.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

  3. “There is no immutable law—indeed, there is not even an adequate rule of thumb—for their solution. We have to keep in mind that we are dealing with people, not with things. At one extreme, there are the dependent Territories in southern Africa, mentioned by the previous speaker. At the other extreme, there are Territories where the obstacle in the way of progress to self-determination lies in such factors as very small size, isolation, lack of resources and very limited scope for development. 43. It is in the latter category that the two remaining New Zealand Territories fall. The special problems of these Territories cannot simply be ignored or impatiently dismissed as evasions of a colonial administration determined to hang on as long as possible.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

  4. “The United Nations has achieved much in the transformation of dependent Territories. New Zealand played a leading part in drafting the provisions of the Charter on this subject. We brought to self-determination the two main Territories for which we were responsible: Western Samoa and the Cook Islands. We voted for the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. We have welcomed the contribution made by this Organization not only to our task but also to the whole process of decolonization. 42. Only a few Territories have yet to exercise their right to self-determination and independence. Each of these, we recognize, presents special difficulties. They are not the same difficulties and they should not be confused.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

  5. “The United Nations Development Programme and the technical services of the agencies are increasingly involved in South Pacific projects. Some of these have been regional in character and have called for the joint participation of the United Nations and the South Pacific Commission and of the other countries in the area. Others have been directed to the needs of particular islands in the area. New Zealand still administers two quite small island Territories: Niue and the Tokelaus. We have been especially gratified that international assistance has been made available to those and other non-self-governing Territories in the South Pacific. We strongly believe that development assistance can do much to hasten the progress of colonial Territories towards self-determination and, if the people concerned choose it, independence. 41.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

  6. “It is not only a problem for those countries like New Zealand which export temperate-climate food-stuffs. It is a problem for all who have an interest in expanding world trade — and I should think that would be the case with all nations. It is a challenge to countries which, although they are Members of the United Nations and major beneficiaries of the present international order, nevertheless are reluctant to accept the fact of inter- dependence amongst members of the world community. 40. I should not leave the topic of economic development without recalling the great satisfaction with which my Government has observed the spread of United Nations activity and expertise into our immediate neighbourhood — that is, in the South Pacific. This is a very welcome trend.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

  7. “We know from our own experience that this is no easy task. 38. For many years, New Zealand, along with other countries which produce agricultural products, has faced serious difficulty in gaining access to the markets of the industrialized countries. No matter how efficient our methods or how competitive our prices, we are often denied a fair chance — and sometimes any chance — of selling our products. Nor is this problem diminishing. On the contrary, a number of important trading countries have recently increased their restrictions on agricultural imports and have stimulated their own sometimes uneconomic and subsidized production to the point where it threatens markets throughout the world. 39. This is a problem which demands the attention of the international community.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

  8. “For about twenty years we have been contributing — quite substantially for a smaller country — to the programmes set up, both within the United Nations system and outside it, to assist the developing countries in their efforts to achieve such progress. We have also been one of the foremost advocates of a collective approach to the challenge of a hungry world. We in New Zealand are convinced that one of the best methods of helping to meet that challenge is by organizing more sensibly the distribution of the world’s food resources. 37. However, we appreciate that aid alone cannot solve the problem. To achieve real and sustained economic growth, developing countries must be able to earn — and I stress the word “earn” — increasing amounts of foreign exchange. To do that, they must be able to sell more to the industrialized nations.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

  9. “We have all come to realize, perhaps even more clearly than those who laid down the objectives of our Organization in San Francisco in 1945, that there is no State, be it large or small, that can tackle those tasks alone. 35. The work of this Organization in the field of economic development has expanded rapidly. This is as it should be. One of the purposes set forth in the Charter is to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom and to achieve international co-operation in solving economic problems. Never have those problems been greater; never has the need for solving them been more insistent than it is today. 36. New Zealand has always felt that economic and social progress is the essential foundation of international peace and security.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

  10. “New agencies have been created and whole new fields of activity have opened up. This growth has reflected new attitudes, new interests, new ambitions and, I think, also new priorities. But, in looking at what has changed, we sometimes, I think, lose sight of what remains the same as it was in 1962 and the years before. In 1945 the need for collective security was paramount, and I believe it also is today. 34. The United Nations has always occupied a central place in New Zealand’s foreign policy, and it will continue to do so, for the United Nations has a vital role to play in all areas of major human concern: peace and security, economic development, decolonization and the promotion and protection of human rights.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

  11. “The wisdom and dignity with which he guided the Assembly’s twenty-second session won the respect of us all, and of all those interested in the United Nations throughout the world. 32. I also extend our congratulations to the Government and the People of Swaziland as they enter the community of sovereign nations and take their place as an equal partner in this Organization. New Zealand was glad to be one of the sponsors of the resolution admitting Swaziland to membership, and we look forward to that country’s participation in the work of the United Nations. 33. Since I last addressed this Assembly, which was in 1962, many things have changed in the international scene and in the functioning of the United Nations itself. Our Organization has grown from 108 Members to 125. Its budget has expanded from $82 million to $140 million.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

  12. “30. On behalf of the Government of New Zealand and the New Zealand delegation, I should first of all like to extend to the President our sincere congratulations on his election to the high office of President of this Assembly. I want to say that we admire the contributions that he has already made to the United Nations in a number of capacities. We salute his dedication to its principles and purposes, and we are fully confident that his conduct of the proceedings of the twenty-third session will enhance his own prestige and that of his own country and, above all, that of the United Nations. 31. I take this opportunity, too, of paying a tribute to the last President, Mr. Manescu, the Foreign Minister of Romania.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)