YouSaid · the spoken record

Royo

THE RECORD WRITES THIS SPEAKER AS ROYO

lines on the record

63

first

1981-09-24

most recent

1981-09-24

sittings or episodes

1

sources

un-general-debate

Every line below is reproduced as it was said and linked to the record it came from. Nothing here is summarised or generated. Directory · Search · Corrections

1. “It has been the search for justice that has throughout history legitimized revolutionary movements of social, anti colonialist and anti-imperialist liberation that strove against these and all other forms of international tutelage. The struggle for true social development is a struggle against all forms of oppression, exploitation and political ' or ideological tutelage and its aim is to eradicate dependence and subordination. As far as we are concerned, the struggle against oppression and dependence is the struggle for peace. The best guarantee of peace is one that does away with international injustice. 20. Panama is a nation lying on the isthmus that links two great portions of the American continent and ensures maritime communication between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.”

   1981-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 36 (1981)

2. “This fact, the motive force and crux of which is, on the one hand, the international division and exploitation of labor and, on the other hand, certain regional processes and groupings, has shaped an imbalanced structure of dependence that retards the possibilities for the full, democratic and free development of natural and human resources and gives rise to the social backwardness of peoples. This is an undesirable situation and, besides flouting the principles of the Organization, is a frequent cause of the tensions and conflicts that threaten world peace. 19. However, it would be both immoral and collusive to strive for world peace at the cost of international justice.”

   1981-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 36 (1981)

3. “Panama, on the contrary, views relations among all nations of the world within a context of true pluralism in which the right of every people freely to choose its own form of development must be genuine, not illusory. 18. One of the basic objectives of the Organization is to wage a universal struggle to seek and maintain peace. But we admit as a basic fact the existence of an international and transnational structure that is unjust, violent, oppressive and unequal.”

   1981-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 36 (1981)

4. “To the nonaligned, this means that States have equal rights and equal duties, in both the political and economic spheres, and that, despite the differing economic, social or political systems or ways of life they may adopt, they are all equal members of the international community. 16. The economic and social problems of the third world countries will not be solved by magic or by dogmatic formulas. Redress lies in planned development, which calls for reforms in the traditional structures in order to adapt them to the complex requirements of contemporary life. 17. We of the smaller nations cannot but be disturbed at the tangible fact that there are still those who would deal with us according to the domino theory.”

   1981-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 36 (1981)

5. “To overcome this crisis we must build a new international society, one making effective and valid the principles of coexistence and cooperation among States. 15. My country's international policy is based on the fundamental principles of the nonaligned movement as an independent moral force, independent of blocs and spheres of influence, and as a positive and global' factor of international peace and security. We believe in the right of every people to adopt the political, economic, social and cultural system that best meets the needs of its great national majorities. The pluralistic nature of the movement, which is based upon the sound application of the principle of the sovereign equality of States, rests on the right to self-determination.”

   1981-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 36 (1981)

6. “Even worse than this terrible physical and spiritual damage is ^he havoc wrought on the conscience of mankind by the threat of nuclear war with which the two superPowers confront each other. Indeed, we are nearly on the threshold of such a war. The peoples of the world feel a sense of dread as they contemplate the possibility of war in which the wave of radioactivity would annihilate hundreds of millions of human beings in a matter of minutes but, ironically, would spare entire cities. 14. The situation facing the community of nations represented here is but a manifestation of the collapse of the international economic, social and political order that has existed since the Second World War.”

   1981-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 36 (1981)

7. “Astronomical foreign debts paralyse the less developed countries and deprive them of their vital resources, causing them to sink into underdevelopment. The technological gap between the industrialized and the less developed countries widens constantly, thwarting the efforts of the latter to increase their holdings in capital goods, raise their productivity and take a more active and useful part in the world market. Meanwhile, the two gigantic constellations of destructive power continue to pursue their insane arms race, spending unproductively each year hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars a small fraction of which would be enough to provide hundreds of millions of human beings suffering hunger, ignorance and unemployment with the schools, hospitals, food, medicine and tools they so badly need. 13.”

   1981-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 36 (1981)

8. “The possibility of undertaking and completing adequate global negotiations is still a mirage, and the establishment of a new international economic order, through the implementation of the new International Development Strategy for the Third United Nations Development Decade [General Assembly resolution 35/56, annex] is still a frustrated dream. A/36/PV.20 11. We shall speak briefly on those aspects of the crisis that have the worst effects upon countries like mine, which form the majority of Members of the Organization. The upheavals in the economies of the handful of countries that form the industrialized few are shifted to the dependent nations, severely burdening them and forcing them into irremediable collapse.”

   1981-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 36 (1981)

9. “There is a new attitude and a greater determination on the part of the people of the third world to overcome traditional frustrations of international dependency and the deficiencies in the old political patterns. 10. The distinguished heads of State or Government and the Ministers for Foreign Affairs gathered in the Assembly have focused their attention on the delicate economic and political situation that has become increasingly serious during the last decade and for which no effective solution has yet been devised.”

   1981-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 36 (1981)

10. “That was a significant response from the countries that were witnessing the cold war of the great Powers, since it pointed the way to assuring the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of nations outside the traditional bounds of military pacts and the servitude imposed by the force of arms or by economic pressures. 9. However, even today, there still subsist practices of dividing up the world among the great, without concern for the legitimate interests of the weak. We admit frankly that the role of the latter in the solution of world problems usually tends to be that of mere spectators or victims. Yet we can now draw comfort from the growing national and universal trend in Latin America, Africa and Asia.”

    1981-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 36 (1981)

11. “We fully share the great concerns of the international community concerns which are even more serious to those nations that still labor under different forms of economic and political dependence. 8. The third world, which is identified by the similarity of its problems in the struggle for political, economic and cultural independence, hails 1970 as the year in which the General Assembly, at its twenty-fifth session, adopted the Declaration on the Strengthening of International Security [resolution 2734 (XXV)]. Thus the United Nations gave decided support to the concept of collective and universal security, without military alliances, for the establishment of truly stable peace in the world.”

    1981-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 36 (1981)

12. “5. My country appreciates having been elected by a significant majority to one of the vice-presidencies of the Assembly and to have been appointed a member of the Credentials Committee. 6. We wish, moreover, to express our sincere thanks for the condolences expressed by the majority of Member States on the tragic loss of General Omar Torrijos Herrera, the prime mover and leader of the Panamanian revolutionary process and Head of Government of our country. We appreciate the commemorations field in his honor in so many countries. General Torrijos Will remain forever our major source of inspiration. 7. I have come to this rostrum to speak on behalf of a people that has waged a long struggle for its full independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty.”

    1981-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 36 (1981)

13. “2. Mr. President, in the course of the Fifth and Sixth Conferences of Heads of State or Government of NonAligned Countries I had the privilege of many opportunities to appreciate your outstanding qualities as a statesman, of which you gave admirable proof. Your election to preside over the work of the General Assembly is a source of satisfaction to the peoples of the third world and to the international community. On behalf of the people and Government of Panama, and on my own behalf, I am happy to greet you and, through you, all the members of the Assembly. 3. We also wish to pay a tribute to Mr. Rudiger von Wechmar and to express our appreciation of his efforts to start the global negotiations relating to international economic cooperation for development. 4. May we also greet the recently admitted new Member States, Vanuatu and Belize.”

    1981-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 36 (1981)