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first: 1976-09-24
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“We hope that the Americas will be a powerful and respected force in the international sphere, with a sense of life that does honor to the ideal of independence and freedom, a flame kindled by Jose Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia and Francisco Solano Lopez, Bolivar, Marti, Juarez, Jose Bonifacio, San Martin and so many other eminent individuals who gave our nations a lasting example of human dignity.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“I wished to conclude my statement with an affirmation of what peoples can do when they are inspired by genuine cooperation and understanding. President Stroessner has said: Peace is the basis of all that makes it possible for us to progress with a calm vision of the future; this is reason enough to defend it from those who make of war an instrument of domination and of democracy a pretext for extinguishing freedom. For the sister nations of America and all the nations of our world we hope for days of constructive peace. We hope that the pain that has affected the fraternal countries of our continent will come to an end.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“In addition, situated as it is by geography in the Plata basin, my country is conducting a policy of genuine regional integration in order to exploit Ally the natural resources that we share with Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Uruguay. I am pleased to announce to the Assembly that, because of this, on 5 November 1982, at the border of our countries, the President of Paraguay, General Alfredo Stroessner and the President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, General Joao Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo, will meet for the formal development of the Itaipu hydroelectric plant, the largest hydroelectric complex in the world, which will have an installed capacity of 12,600 megawatts and will produce approximately 75 billion kilowatt hours a year.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“At the present time, the Government of Paraguay is considering, on the basis of an already developed project, the construction of the facilities needed to join its national railway to that of Brazil, making available to us another important channel of access to the ocean. Precisely because it is a land locked country, Paraguay has expressed its great interest in overcoming the limitations that stem from that condition. Thus, my country participated actively in the various conferences on the law of the sea held since 1958 and in the drafting of the United Nations Convention on the Law of Sea, which will be open to signature countries in Jamaica next December. I should like to affirm my country's interest in obtaining through that Convention all the facilities for land locked countries provided for therein.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“My delegation expresses the very fervent hope that the aforementioned territorial disputes will be resolved in a strong Americanist spirit, which would do honor to the sincere and irreversible desire to build together an effective system guaranteeing the future and the well being of our peoples. Since I have just recalled the process of delimiting the borders of our American countries, it is relevant to point out that Paraguay has been reduced to a landlocked country and in this respect has every right to lay a claim to the legitimate means provided by the international community to countries that are deprived of a coastline. There are agreements between my country and neighboring countries aimed at facilitating river and road transportation for access to the sea.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Hence, in the sixteenth century my homeland was called the Vast Province of the Indies and the ocean adjacent to the present coast of Uruguay and Argentina was in the seventeenth century called the Paraguayan Sea. I mention this merely to recall that the process of delimiting our American republics has in every case been the result of an accumulation of circumstances, fortunate or otherwise, which, in the final analysis, have been accepted as the rule of history, In the light of this, it is difficult for us to imagine that a breakdown in diplomatic negotiations aimed at resolving territorial conflicts between our countries should give way to the theory of Clausewitz and that there should be recourse to armed force.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Throughout the difficult process of institutional consolidation, the nations of the Americas without exception found it difficult to delimit their respective territories. These difficulties stemmed mainly from the confusing administrative legacy received from the Spanish Crown in the political sphere in which the colonial Power exercised its authority. This is the reason for the armed conflicts that have taken place among nations in our continent to resolve their disputes. Paraguay, for example, has throughout its history as a colonial political entity seen the shrinking of a territory which originally included what is now the vast region of the Rio de la Plata in addition to a strip of land 200 leagues in extent on the Pacific Ocean.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Now, in the same spirit of friendship towards the parties to the armed conflict over the Malvinas and with the same sense of responsibility regarding our duties towards the international community, the delegation of Paraguay is sponsoring, together with other nations of the Americas, a draft resolution to be submitted at this session of the General Assembly, with a view to achieving a just and honorable solution to the conflict between Argentina and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It is our fervent hope that the disputes over territorial delimitations between Argentina and Chile, Ecuador and Peru and Guyana and Venezuela will be resolved in a dignified and intelligent way.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“In doing so, Paraguay was merely endorsing the attitude it had already adopted at the two special sessions of the Assembly of the Organization of American States in May and June of this year in order to consider the armed conflict which broke out in the South Atlantic. Aware of the extreme seriousness of the military confrontation, which was then approaching our continent, my country joined hi the united action of the nations of the Americas to try to avoid the crisis, even though the situation resulting from the events that had taken place and from the ongoing negotiations aimed at reaching agreement, did not offer much hope of a negotiated solution.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“As far as we Paraguayans are concerned President Stroessner stated, at the beginning of his outstanding work of leadership that the people is the source of the spirit that has made Paraguay's Homeric record possible in the history of the nations of the world. The people is the substance that nourishes us, that gives us strength to react the summit without fail and to raise our flag as a lofty, lasting symbol of our national grandeur. My Government, together with those of other nations of the Americas, signed a request for the inclusion in the agenda for debate at the present session of the General Assembly of an item on the question of the Malvinas Islands.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“In spite of the serious general deterioration which has dangerously affected the economic and financial situation of the world, my country maintains the conditions which make it possible for us to benefit from one of the highest growth rates on the continent, a very sound external public indebtedness record, a balanced administrative budget and a very low level of unemployment which is not in any way a social problem. None the less we are fully aware of the need and the obligation of the developing counties to remedy, through common action, the unacceptable shortcomings of an economic structure which affects the prices of our commodities, stimulates disorder in the monetary system and stultifies international trade. We have faith in the creative capacity of our nation.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“We express the fervent hope for success in the efforts made by the Republic of Korea to bring about the unification of the peninsula through direct negotiations with the People's Democratic Republic of Korea, and we trust that, under the competent guidance of the Secretary General, the efforts which began in 1979 will continue. Paraguay has for more than a quarter of a century now enjoyed a climate of political, social and economic stability based on a system of sound democracy, administered with constant dedication to the higher interests of the Republic.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Thus we repudiate and forcefully condemn the Soviet Union's subjugation of the sovereignty of Afghanistan, a country which is steadfastly struggling to defend its independence; we repudiate with equal force Viet Nam's intervention in Kampuchea; and we cannot fail to condemn the brutal genocide carried out against defenseless communities in Lebanon. All these and similar events of transitory notoriety seem to have the incredible purpose of lulling our consciences and anaesthetizing our sensitivities. Faced with this negative picture, which causes pessimism, my country welcomes the certain positive signs of understanding which have emerged in the international political sphere.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Those and other legal instruments with binding force at the international level should, together with The Hague, Montreal and Tokyo Conventions, which my country has already signed, provide a body of provisions which can counteract that type of crime. A/37/PV.23 Paraguay has heroic experience of wars. My country has itself suffered not only the incalculable loss of life of its sons and daughters in devastating numbers but also the hardships of foreign military occupation and the mutilation of its territorial heritage.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“Moreover, the terrorism which is exercised in the internal sphere and exported equally criminally beyond their own borders by some Governments is an eloquent expression of a state of madness which can be compared only to the threat of an atomic holocaust. In spite of the inexplicable difficulties involved in the consideration of this topic in the Sixth Committee, my delegation would ask that the study of draft international instruments aimed at removing the apocalyptic scourge of terrorism, such as, for example, the draft Code of Offences Against the Peace and Security of Mankind and a draft international convention against the recruitment, use, financing and training of mercenaries be accelerated.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“The different conferences on disarmament that have taken place since the days of the frustrated League of Nations have not thus far offered the Rope of a promising course of action. The so called major Powers and those that try to be major Powers bear the tremendous responsibility of giving the world an example of wisdom and of real and effective respect for life, the most important human right. Statements on the principle of the sovereign equality of States are meaningless if the destiny of mankind is linked to the interests of those who wield atomic power, with all its horrors. Equally meaningless are the intentions of promoting the overall well being of peoples if vast sums are earmarked to annihilate them, in a vicious circle of dissuasion which can last only so long.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“As the Secretary General has pointed out, we are apt to forget with suicidal single mindedness the six years of global agony and destruction that preceded the San Francisco Conference, and it is true that thus far we have not learned to operate sensibly the system of collective security that is the only instrument available to us to preserve our generation and succeeding generations from total disaster. We are haunted by far justified and healthy fear that alerts us and prompts us to understand the dangers that stalk us. With all the defects inherent in human endeavor, the Charter remains the only valid instrument Car the finding of solutions which, though provisional, can defuse the critical situation that confronts us.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“We note his hopes and offer him Paraguay's cooperation in his noble efforts to implement the Organization's mandate under the Charter to avoid the untold sorrow that results from war, to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights and to establish conditions conducive to the general progress of all our peoples in a universal atmosphere of coexistence based on mutual respect, justice and freedom. Perhaps more than any other year in the life of the Organization, the past year has been characterized by continued violence in different parts of the world.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“We are pleased to see that every day he gives clear proof of his skills and his unquestionable dedication to his work, as evidenced by his report on the work of the Organization, a report that concisely sets forth many creative suggestions at a time when, though there has been hesitant progress, efforts are being made to achieve survival in peace and dignity. My delegation fully shares the deep anxiety of the Secretary General, who has urgently appealed to us for common sense and effective action.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“On behalf of the delegation of Paraguay I should like to congratulate Mr. Hollai on his election to conduct the proceedings of the General Assembly, an honor that has been conferred upon him because of his personal integrity and his well recognized diplomatic experience. We extend to the Secretary General our best wishes for success in the important work before him. We do so not only because of the esteem in which we hold him but also because as South Americans we feel gratified at his election.”
1982-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 37 (1982)
“My country never compromised by granting that regime concessions which proved fatal for other nations of the Americas. That is why we are not surprised or frightened by the bullying attitude of the arrogant Minister,”
1981-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 36 (1981)
“The policy of open criminal interference in the internal affairs of other States practiced by Fidel Castro, a kindred satellite of a superPower, was experienced by Paraguay in 1959 and in 1960 when international brigands who entered our country across the long border with Argentina were found to be in possession of weapons and equipment belonging to the Cuban army. That attempted invasion, the sinister design of which was to bring communism to my country, was severely repulsed by the Paraguayan people themselves taking up arms and by the regular army of the nation. Paraguay severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba in 1960 and ever since then has maintained unchanged its position of repudiation of Fidel Castro's bloody tyranny.”
1981-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 36 (1981)
“With regard to specific achievements, my country has begun construction of two major hydroelectric plants on the Parana River one in conjunction with Brazil, which will have an installed capacity of 12,6 million kilowatts and the other with Argentina, with an installed capacity of 4.2 million kilowatts. These major sources of energy open up tremendous possibilities for the River Plata basin and will be true monuments to the fruitful and creative peace in which many million people will live. This is our significant contribution to the wellbeing and progress of mankind. 17. I cannot, nor should I, end this brief statement without replying to the injudicious speech one more example of the truculent Castrist verbal diarrhea to which we are accustomed made by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Cuba yesterday [12th meeting]. 18.”
1981-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 36 (1981)
“Paraguay has throughout its history maintained a well-defined American position, which in the course of this century has led it to take an active part in all political and economic organizations which have been established in the continent and to which we naturally belong by reason of geography or trade links. 16. By reason of the same principles of solidarity and integration, Paraguay participates in the River Plata Basin System, in order to speed up the economic and social development of one of the potentially most wealthy regions in Latin America.”
1981-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 36 (1981)
“We are not interested in any democracy which means the weakness of free institutions and sterile demagoguery, For us, democracy represents the rule of the popular will within a framework of law. For us, freedom means the reconciliation of all rights with a view to the common good." 14. The Government of President Stroessner has a foreign policy based on full respect far the norms of international coexistence and the promotion of ties of solidarity with those countries which share the same ideals of independence, democracy and freedom. 15.”
1981-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 36 (1981)
“An annual growth rate of 10.4 per cent, a rate of inflation lower than 16 per cent, a favorable balance of payments for 10 years, per capita income above $1,000, an exchange rate between the guarani and the dollar which has remained practically unchanged for 20 years, a national budget without deficit and a considerable increase in exports all are eloquent data which we in Paraguay can show today 13. As has been so rightly stated by President Stroessner in his message last 1 April to the National Congress: ... our powerful reality is the fruit of peace, which we have been able to affirm and which we are willing to defend with all our energy, without ever giving up in the struggle against factors which oppose our national greatness. We have replaced the opprobrious regime of anarchy by freedom with order.”
1981-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 36 (1981)
“We must overcome the obstacles that limit our access to the sea and seek other benefits from it; thus, protected by the future convention, my country will at the appropriate time request the legitimate advantages to which it is entitled. 11. Our position as a landlocked country has for a long time adversely affected the development of our country, which today, fortunately thanks to the patriotic and extraordinary administration of the President of the Republic of Paraguay, General of the Army Alfredo Stroessner, and to the persevering efforts of my compatriots can point to highly significant indexes within the group of the countries of the American continent which accurately reflect the economic reality in Paraguay. 12.”
1981-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 36 (1981)
“It is a pleasure and a source of pride for me to say that the international position of my country in this regard has never wavered nor shifted one iota. We are faithful, loyal and convinced performers of our international commitments and the governing principles maintaining the dignity of nations. 10. My country has understandably taken an interest in everything which has to do with the law of the sea since the start of the conferences on that issue almost a quarter of a century ago. We are a country without a coastline, but our situation as a landlocked country is a challenge which we must meet with dauntless will.”
1981-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 36 (1981)
“For more than two years the Republic of El Salvador has been prey to the ravages of a war of extermination, which is being encouraged by sinister designs of political domination. In keeping with its tradition of complete respect for the sovereignty of others, Paraguay rejects any attempt at bringing El Salvador under a power other than one that is freely and democratically chosen by the Salvadorian people themselves. 9. Accordingly, because my country has consistently defended the principle of non-intervention and the Assembly will recall the case of Nicaragua, which in 1979 was notable for Paraguay's single and solitary vote we repudiate any attempt at foreign interference in that tormented sister Republic.”
1981-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 36 (1981)
“It is because every effort must be made to preserve peace that my delegation favors a proposal made by President Chun of the Republic of Korea aimed at bringing about a resumption of talks, at the highest level, with the People's Democratic Republic of Korea with a view to reaching an honorable solution that would ensure a peaceful future for the peninsula in which, in the not too distant past, the United Nations made such great efforts. The Koreans themselves must, in an independent and peaceful manner, resolve the question of Korea which for 36 years has been divided through direct negotiations between the North and the South of the peninsula. Accordingly, it would be most desirable for the Secretary General to continue the efforts that began in 1979. 8. The Americas are also feeling the scourge of violence.”
1981-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 36 (1981)
“We need only go over the geography of our planet in order to find that every day violence reigns. We raise our voice here to denounce it, as in the case of Afghanistan, which has been trampled underfoot by the invasion of Soviet troops, or that of Kampuchea, which has been militarily occupied by Vietnamese forces. The Middle East and various regions of Africa are also hotbeds of tension jeopardizing world peace. 7.”
1981-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 36 (1981)
“Peace, the raison d'etre and supreme purpose of the 1945 Charter, is a source of continuous concern for us, dominating our meetings and constantly challenging the ingenuity of our creative capacities. 5. It is natural that it should be thus, for, without exception, we are all here to speak of peace: to praise it, to call for it, and to defend it. All of us, every one, are unswerving protagonists in this common effort, and all conventionalism vanishes before that inevitable equality. We all have the right to express our opinions on the state of the world, where peace is concerned. 6. In this important field, the world is reeling from one shock after another. It is true that war, terror and crime cast shadows on our hopes, threaten them and even annihilate them.”
1981-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 36 (1981)
“For reasons of brevity, given the lengthy agenda of the present session of the General Assembly, the delegation of Paraguay will refer only to a few items that call for its immediate attention. 2. Mr. President, we wish you success in the important functions entrusted to you, and we hope that at the end of your term we will be congratulating you, as we now congratulate Mr. Rudiger von Wechmar for the skill with which he conducted the thirty-fifth session. We also wish to thank the Secretariat and its distinguished and diligent head, Mr. Kurt Waldheim, for the assistance they have rendered to the Organization during the past year. 3. We welcome the two new States of Vanuatu and Belize on their joining the United Nations, and we present our best wishes to them for the prosperity and wellbeing of their respective peoples. 4.”
1981-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 36 (1981)
“A well- known military leader of the United States, Douglas MacArthur, once said that, in the final analysis, the reason for all failures is that one "arrived too late". 222. May time not work in favour of barbaric acts and may God kindle a ray of common sense and hope in our consciences. That is Paraguay's hope, so that the current session of the General Assembly, guided by the well-known diplomatic experience and personal qualities of its President, Mr. Rudiger von Wechmar, will become a landmark in the difficult task of maintaining international peace and security.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says that "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person", and article 14 says that "Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution", while, under articles 10 and 11, only judicial action can impede that right; and article 30 says that no State, group or person has the right "to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein". 220. Consequently, with justified indignation, I wish, on behalf of my country and in the name of human rights, to express in this Assembly our most vigorous protest and repudiation of that terrorist act. 221. We must ask ourselves whether mankind, represented in this Assembly, has suicidal tendencies.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“There was also presumption and obvious bad faith in the remarks made by a member of that governing Junta, Rafael C6rdova Rivas, who, in a statement on 17 September 1980, made grave threats against the chief magistrate of the Republic of Paraguay, which was a provocation of the Paraguayan people that had elected him, in free elections and by an overwhelming majority, as their chief of State. 219.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“It disrupted the public tranquillity in our country with unprecedented bloodshed and has sullied our image, although it is obvious that it was nothing other than an act of political spite and vengeance on the part of other countries". 216. By way of additional information, I should like to bring to the attention of this Assembly the fact that the Government of Paraguay has decided to suspend diplomatic relations with the Nicaraguan Government of National Reconstruction. 217. This decision was based on a number of clues pointing to the participation of the Sandinista Movement of Nicaragua in the crime perpetrated on Paraguayan territory against the ex-President of Nicaragua. 218.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“The Senate, for its part, after referring to the refugee status of the principal victim, declared that: "... from the material evidence and the data thus far collected, there is ample reason to conclude that the assassination was conceived and decided upon abroad; that it was executed by foreigners, with weapons brought in clandestinely for this purpose, and that their motives, which are foreign to our country, were at variance with its customs, its respect for human rights, and the democratic nature of its political struggles. Therefore, irrespective of the cause motivating the crime, this criminal act constitutes a barbaric act of aggression by international terrorism against Paraguay.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“But it was all to no avail, because not only was there no response from the rural population of my country, but, more importantly, the perpetrators were identified and severely punished by the very peasants whose lives and property had been so heedlessly assaulted. Thus this is not the first time that my country has been the victim of aggression. 215. On this last occasion the entire citizenry in a variety of ways condemned the crime perpetrated in Asuncion, and both Houses of the National Congress, in a genuine expression of the popular will, unanimously adopted pertinent legislative resolutions. The Chamber of Deputies expressed its "firmest determination not to compromise or falter in the struggle to preserve the immutable principles of Western Christian civilization".”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“In 1947, international communism, in league with opponents of our regime who had become docile instruments, attempted to set up a Marxist regime in my country. This resulted in an armed clash that lasted nearly half a year, but was put down thanks to the indomitable will of the Republican National Association and the Colorado Party, which closed ranks with the loyal and uncontaminated army. In 1959 and 1960 armed gunmen, who had been clandestinely infiltrated from abroad, once again tried by force of arms to impose Marxist dogma on Paraguay. No holds were barred in the bloody fighting which ensued, which was marked by the ferocity of the attackers.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“Barely two weeks ago, the city of Asuncion, the capital of my country, was the scene of a barbarous act of terrorism in which General Anastasio Somoza Debayle, ex-President of the Republic of Nicaragua, was brutally assassinated. 212. That heinous murder, so alien to the peaceful life that the institutions of Paraguay have enjoyed for more than a quarter of a century, elicited vigorous repudiation, quite apart from the question of who were morally or materially responsible, and quite apart from their motives. 213. That infamous act of aggression had one novel feature typical of terrorism: the civilian population was placed on the brink of disaster of incalculable dimensions, for the savage and dastardly act was perpetrated in the full light of day, right in the middle of the city. 214.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“The large projects in Itaipu and Yacyreta, the expenses for which we share with Brazil and Argentina respectively, will make Paraguay a leading producer of electric energy. 210. I take the liberty of providing the Assembly with this brief outline of the general situation in Paraguay today because it is essential that we all get to know one another at first hand and in a straightforward manner, especially those of us who do not utilize the secrets of mercenary propaganda and who do not have the economic or political power to stop that kind of propaganda. This is a universal forum where there must be not only a legitimate desire for peace but also an honest desire to speak the truth. We are a responsible, respectable country which has rightly earned its place in the civilized world. 211.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“Paraguay, which is governed by a modern Constitution democratically adopted in 1967, enjoys the free interplay of political parties and, at the present time, boasts an annual growth rate of 10.5 per cent, the highest on the continent, and perhaps in the entire world; our foreign public debt situation is sound, our rate of exchange with the dollar having remained unchanged since 1960; we keep within our public budget in a satisfactory manner, and our unemployment rate is practically nil. Eighty percent of the population can read and write, and education and public health receive priority attention from the Government; indeed, sizeable portions of our budgets are allocated to those areas.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“Our international identity has deep roots in the history of America, and the name of my country is synonymous with firmness, decisiveness and crystal clarity in its dealings with other nations. We have a keen sense of friendship and co-operation, as well as an inflexible and inveterate instinct for independence and uprightness. 209. Thanks to those qualities of the Paraguayan people, the Government of President Stroessner has been able to give our country an unprecedented and unparalleled rate of growth in progress and prosperity, in a climate of peace, with guarantees for the essential rights of the human person.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“The delegation of Paraguay will be setting forth its views on those and other questions. This should, of course, not be taken to imply a lack of interest—for of course we are interested to some degree—in all the other agenda items. 206. Having offered this brief clarification, in the interest of the brevity that should mark what is termed the general debate, I am pleased to make mention of the positive contribution of my country throughout the long period that has passed since Paraguay, with 49 other countries, signed the Charter in San Francisco. Since then, we have watched this Organization grow and our words have never strayed from the ideals which attended its birth. 207. We are a peace-loving people. In two world wars, we have defended our honour, our land and our rights with bravery. 208. Our country is no improvisation.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“On behalf of the delegation of Paraguay, I am pleased to welcome the new Member States of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Zimbabwe to our community of nations. 205. The long list of items on the agenda of the present session of the General Assembly contains a few of undoubted interest to my country, such as the United Nations Special Fund for Land-locked Developing Countries; the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea; the draft international convention against the recruitment, use, financing and training of mercenaries; the banning of nuclear weapons in Latin America and other continents, as well as related questions; development and international economic co-operation with all their implications; the draft articles on most-favoured-nation clauses and so on.”
1980-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 35 (1980)
“This is an obvious and happy sign of a better understanding among the Americas, the one in the north and the one in the south, called upon to agree on the level of absolute unqualified respect and without blameworthy ignorance. 197. Paraguay would not wish America to succumb to a suicidal confusion of concepts, but would rather that, with God's help, "government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth".”
1979-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 34 (1979)
“My country is open to all men of goodwill who wish to see with their own eyes and with an open mind the atmosphere of peace, democracy and freedom in which we are developing our republican institutions, which are the basis of our confidence in a brilliant future which we wish to share with the sister nations of America and with the other nations which, with us, profess their faith in better days for mankind. 195. I wish to end this statement by reiterating the pleasure with which Paraguay, its people and Government, note today, 1 October, the celebration of an auspicious event: the coming into force of the Panama Canal Treaty. I congratulate you, Mr. President, your noble country of Panama and its Government, for defending the rights of your country so tenaciously and with such dignity. 196.”
1979-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 34 (1979)
“Aware of its historic responsibility and its commitment to the present generation, the Government of President Stroessner is devoting all its efforts to place my country in the privileged situation it occupied in its early history and which it earned through the dignity of its people and because of its brilliant history. 193. We have suffered much misfortune, due mainly to- international wars and attacks against our sovereignty and independence. The hard lesson of the past has strengthened us in our resolve to be steadfast in the face of any attempt at foreign interference, under whatever emblem by whatever method, from whatever origin or whatever arguments may be made use of to try to justify it. 194.”
1979-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 34 (1979)
“I would like to stress that, in addition to the vast volume of energy from renewable resources, such as hydroelectric energy, which does not have the problems connected with mineral or atomic production and its technology, and which very shortly will be available to Paraguay, we have the privileged condition of a fertile territory, which in my country can produce food over almost its entire area. 191. In turn, the possibility of using electric power to produce fertilizers will raise the capacity of Paraguay to produce food-stuffs to a high level, thus transforming my country into a major centre of world interest in view of the acute and anxious problem of world food. 192.”
1979-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 34 (1979)