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first: 1951-09-24
most recent: 1952-09-24
sittings or episodes: 2
sources: un-general-debate

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“The delegation of Paraguay hopes and trusts that the Assembly will take steps at this session which will strengthen this faith and increase the prestige of the Organization.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“The delegation of Paraguay is convinced that the intensification of the efforts which the United Nations is making to provide technical assistance for the under-developed countries and to give them better economic opportunities is one of the most positive contributions which the United Nations could make towards peace and international co-operation. Consequently we believe that, in spite of the unfavourable conditions created by rearmament, the General Assembly should go forward with, rather than interrupt, the activities in respect of economic development and technical assistance which it initiated in previous years. The faith of the peoples in the United Nations depends largely upon an understanding of this necessity. 136.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“In a world in which peoples are becoming more and more interdependent, such a situation is in itself a threat to international peace and security. 134. The delegation of Paraguay fully agrees with the view expressed by the Secretary-General, in the introduction to his annual report that it is essential for the "countries whose peoples enjoy high standards of living ... to join more fully in aiding the economic development of the under-developed countries”. As the Secretary-General points out, and expanded international programme of this kind would not be "an act of charity”, but on the contrary would constitute "a sound investment in peace and stability and lead to a mutually beneficial expansion of world productivity and world trade”. 135.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“The opposite attitude would serve only to foster resentment among the nations whose admission was unjustly delayed and would increase instead of decreasing the causes of international friction. 133. Poverty, sickness and ignorance are at present the scourges of many countries and vast regions of the globe, and nearly two-thirds of the human race suffer the consequences of these evils. It may be said that such conditions constitute a type of aggression within each country which is as dangerous as armed aggression on the international level. In the countries where they prevail, they create an atmosphere of discontent, social insecurity and political instability. In such an atmosphere if is easy for extremes of scepticism and despair to flourish.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“Paraguay regrets that the lack of basic agreement among the great Powers on this subject has kept out of the Organization countries with such high qualifications for admission as Italy, a country which we take the liberty of mentioning particularly because of its supremely important position in the community of peace-loving and, democratic nations of the world. We believe that the United Nations should adhere closely to the principle laid down in the Charter that all nations that are peace-loving and presumed to be such are entitled to be admitted as Members of the Organization. It should be the policy of the United Nations, on the basis of this very wise principle, to try to make its membership as universal as possible, for that would increase the possibilities of international co-operation and advance the cause of peace.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“The delegation of Paraguay still considers that the afore-mentioned resolution constitutes a fair basis for the progress of discussion on these questions. At the same time, there can be no doubt that the international tension, aggravated by the Korean war and the long-drawn-out armistice negotiations, is the least favourable atmosphere for a conciliation of the differing or opposing viewpoints expressed in the Disarmament Commission. The ending of the Korean war is therefore essential if the Commission’s work is to succeed and the world is to be freed from the terrible economic and moral consequences of the armaments race. 132. The problem of the admission to the Organization of countries which have applied for membership continues year after year to challenge the United Nations.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“Paraguay sincerely regrets the fact that the Disarmament Commission set up by a resolution [502 (VI)] of the General Assembly has not made any progress in bringing the gap between the opposing views on certain basic questions, which was already apparent in previous years in the Commission for Conventional Armaments and the Atomic Energy Commission. 131. Rearmament imposes a heavy burden, not only on the great Powers but on all the countries of the world, for it produces instability in international trade and finance, which has serious economic repercussions everywhere. Consequently it is quite rightly a matter of universal concern that the great Powers should agree on the general outline of a balanced plan for disarmament.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“Until these two requirements are met — and the delegation of Paraguay is convinced that the United Nations should work towards that end — the General Assembly is entitled to consider that the Security Council’s "primary responsibility” is not its exclusive responsibility, and consequently does not relieve the Assembly of the obligation to fill the gap which, if allowed to exist, might at any moment plunge the world into international anarchy or War. It is in the light of these considerations that the delegation of Paraguay will examine the second report of the Collective Measures Committee [A/2215]. 130.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“Naturally it is to be hoped that these two circumstances will change, that, in the first place, there will be a decrease in the danger of the use of the veto in connexion with an act of aggression, and, secondly, that there will be at least a minimum agreement among the permanent members of the Security Council to enable them to negotiate the agreements designed to implement, under the Council’s auspices, the system of collective security provided for in the Charter.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“This resolution resulted from the fear that the veto might be used in a case of aggression, and from the lack of unanimity among the permanent members of the Security Council regarding the negotiation of the special agreements referred to in Article 43 of the Charter. Accordingly, the resolution extended the powers of the General Assembly in the event — and only in the event — that the Security Council should find itself prevented by the use of the veto from exercising its "primary responsibility” under Article 24.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“The world is entitled to hope that, by the acceptance of this principle, the final obstacle will be removed and that we shall be able to achieve an honourable armistice; the United Nations has already made as many concessions as it can to that end without abandoning its principles. The end of the Korean war would lead to a rapid relaxation of international tension and to the creation of an atmosphere far more favourable to progress and the solution of the most important problems affecting world peace than that prevailing at present, 128. The Collective Measures Committee, which was set up by the Assembly at its fifth session under the "Uniting for peace” resolution [377 (V)], is to submit its second report to us at this seventh session. 129.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“When the permanent representative of the USSR made his statement of 23 June 1951 in New York, millions of people believed that peace was in sight in Korea and that an armistice would be possible. Nevertheless, the negotiations at Panmunjon have gone on for more than a year and there has been no end to the conflict. For several months, now, the question of the exchange of prisoners of war has been the root cause of an apparently insuperable deadlock. Yet the delegation of Paraguay still believes that it is possible to find a compromise formula which will take into account the legal, human and moral aspects of the problem. As regards the second aspect, Paraguay recognizes the justice of the principle that the wishes of prisoners who do not want to be repatriated should be respected, for that principle is based on natural law.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“An overwhelming majority of nations, both great and small, gave both moral and material assistance, as far as they were able within the limits of their capacities, their means and their resources, to the action undertaken by the Security Council. It is true that it has not been possible to achieve our purposes fully, but there have been definite results of practical value and of supreme moral value. In the first place, the United Nations has almost unanimously condemned the aggression ; secondly, a great many of its Members are giving effective material assistance; thirdly, the system of collective security has been put to the test for the first time and the world now knows what action to take in similar cases. . 127.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“We must not allow the routine of these international assemblies, with their inevitable ceremony and their still more inevitable flood of speeches, to banish or weaken our understanding of the real meaning of this tragedy. The war in Korea goes on. We must return again and again to this simple and terrible fact and ponder its challenge to the conscience of our civilization and to the principles set forth in the Charter. 126. The United Nations did its best to meet its responsibilities in this emergency. The aggression was recognized and condemned by the competent organs of the United Nations and, although the concurrence of one of the permanent members of the Security Council was lacking throughout, the machinery for collective action was put into operation to repel the attack and to re-establish peace and security in the troubled area.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“It is hardly possible to take part in this opening debate of the seventh session of the General Assembly without referring first of all to the armed conflict which has engaged the attention of the whole world since 25 June 1950. Since that sad and fateful day, there have been two sessions of the General Assembly of the Organization which was created at San Francisco, and the third one is now beginning. But the conflict still goes on, claiming thousands of victims, destroying homes and engulfing vast material wealth. It was thought that the good sense of the Powers which fought the war against the Axis Would suffice to create a world with more security and less fear. But Korea in flames belies this hope and mankind is more than ever a prey to fear. 125.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“which to consider the world’s important problems. 116. Paraguay continues to place its faith and hope in this idea and at the same time reaffirms its unshakeable belief in the ability of the United Nations to safeguard from all risks the system of collective security laid down in the Charter and the ideal of peace to which the peoples cling.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“It might perhaps be speaking with too much frankness to remind them that title blood of peoples and the destruction of towns, as witnessed in Korea since the aggression of 25 June 1950, are more substantial evidence than the fallacious ideologies, which mirage-like, point the way to world domination and to the exploitation of all nations under the dictatorship of a central committee. 115. The Paraguayan delegation does not, however, wish to abandon the idea that a positive policy of pursuing the aims of the Organization can still be urged upon those States which, by basing their whole policy on the belief that their regime is absolutely incompatible with that of the others, have been systematically frustrating all attempts to ease world tension and to create an atmosphere of rational serenity in.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“The spokesmen of this new imperialism may pretend that they cannot stifle their laughter at the disarmament proposals of some of the great Powers or at the opinions of the medium and small countries; and nobody can prevent them from continuing to use this platform for committing afresh every day, in this land renowned for its moderation, the sin of pride and that other nameless sin of which the Scriptures speak and which Anatole France calls “ bad taste”. Nor can anyone or anything prevent the peoples from continuing to judge them by their deeds and from drawing their own conclusions from such deeds. 114.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“It is sufficient to state that, as a result of the aggression against the Republic of Korea, the idea took shape in the minds of most Member States that the unanimity rule laid down in the Charter as the ideal arrangement for agreement between the five great Powers must not be vitiated in its essence or purpose nor converted into an instrument for preventing peace and opening the way for aggression. 111. The “Uniting for peace” resolution has saved the Charter and the Organization from this unwholesome interpretation which would have been bound sooner or later to destroy both. 112. The peoples of the world desire peace and hate war. But it must be said that it is the imperialist policy culminating in the aggression in Korea that still remains the most serious obstacle on the road to peace. 113.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“It is by now an accepted truth that the “Uniting for peace” resolution [377 (V)] of 3 November 1950 marked a decisive moment in the determination of the Members of the United Nations to prevent an organization established to preserve peace from possibly being paralysed in its action of resisting the aggression, and to prevent all the principles, purposes and measures established by the Charter pursuant to a solemn agreement from becoming, as a consequence, of no effect or even the butt of cruel derision for some. 110. We shall not at this juncture go into the controversy of the so-called right of veto so frequently raised both inside and outside the Organization.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“That understandable fear still holds and binds us, because contempt for the principles of law and of the foreign policy of States, the distortion of the most simple facts, and the derision of United Nations objectives and resolutions, represent a rule of conduct which could not and, so long as it is persisted in, cannot be compatible with the maintenance of peace. 108. In the light of the flagrant case of the aggression against the Korean Republic and the subsequent intervention of the Peiping Government in the conflict, it is clearly necessary first, by legal and technical means, to use the collective security machinery provided for in the Charter, and secondly, by practical measures, to organize a better defence of a world that seeks to live in peace and to banish the danger of new aggressions. 109.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“The attitude shown by this bloc of nations in declaring its support for the aggressors instead of participating in the collective action, gave rise to profound misgivings for the immediate future. It was quite natural for men to fear that the blow struck against the Korean Republic was but the prelude to new aggressions and the signal for the launching, in physical form behind the guns of armies, of a well known plan for world domination, hitherto confined to the ideological sphere.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“The vast majority of nations, great and small, endorsed the measures taken by the Security Council under Chapter VII of the Charter. Virtually the whole world may be said to have come forward in a solid block to offer moral and material resistance to the aggression. In contrast to this impressive solidarity, a small group of Member States adopted an attitude inconsistent with the obligations of the Charter and fraught with danger for the future of the Organization and the international community as a whole, for their attitude constitutes nothing less than an attempt to justify aggression as an instrument of political or ideological expansion. 107.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“The prompt and energetic action taken by the Security Council through its resolutions of 25 and 27 June 1950 gave a lead to the determination of the great Powers, on whom Article 24 of the Charter confers the primary responsibility of the maintenance of peace and security, to make a joint effort to resist the aggression and to establish peace and security in the disturbed area. 105. As became apparent subsequently, the absence of the concurrent vote of one of the permanent members of the Council, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, could only be construed as a calculated attempt to encourage the aggression and to paralyse the Organization in its measures to defend peace and the principles of the Charter. 106.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“The hand that set in motion the machine of aggressive war against the Republic of Korea on the morning of 25 June 1950, also roused the free world from its lethargy and, by awakening the reaction natural to the instinct of self-preservation, helped to strengthen the system of collective security. 103. The General Assembly began the proceedings of its fifth session last September under the ominous sign of aggression. The cries of the victim rendered vain all the artifices of rhetoric; the blood of the Korean people was itself more eloquent than anything that could be said in justification or even in condemnation of the crime. Still, the aggression against the Korean Republic represented the test by fire of the effectiveness of the United Nations and of the ability of the free world to meet the challenge. 104.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“It was characteristic of the international situation in the year now drawing to a close that technically there has been no break of continuity between the fifth session of the General Assembly and this, its sixth session, which has opened in an atmosphere of cordial hospitality shown by the French people and Government. 101. The Organization, established at San Francisco “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war”, has had to face a flagrant case of breach of the peace in the Far East, exactly five years after the signing of the Charter. 102.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)