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lines on the record: 205
first: 1957-09-24
most recent: 1974-09-24
sittings or episodes: 8
sources: un-general-debate

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“Accordingly each State can best contribute towards the improvement of the United Nations by improving itself through the promotion of its own economic, cultural, social, legal and moral development. 8. In this connexion, Paraguay fully appreciates and is grateful to the United Nations and its specialized agencies for the invaluable co-operation which it is at present receiving, and which is enabling it to advance more rapidly along the path of peace and progress. Thanks to the co-operation, both financial and technical, of the United Nations, Paraguay is enjoying a period of unprecedented well-being and tranquillity, made possible by the execution of public works, measures in the fields of health and education, the development of productive resources, the expansion of consumption and the provision of comprehensive benefits for workers. 9.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“In our view, the majority of the political difficulties encountered by our Organization derive from the circumstance that Member States have not yet been able to make the transition from absolute sovereignty to voluntary submission to an international legal order ruled by international laws, international courts and international forces - the ideal to which we should all aspire. 6. To attain this goal, we need time, experience and, above all, a willingness to accept realities and situations which are manifestly unjust in the present opinion of the majority of States, but which will soon be no more than episodes in history, necessary milestones towards the attainment of a universal legal order. 7. As an association of nations, a world organization can be no more than the sum of its parts.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“The injustices committed daily by national courts and the abuses committed throughout the ages and in every country by national authorities are not an argument for the abolition of courts and government authorities. Similarly, the relative inability of the United Nations to impose a solution in certain very special cases - an inability of which it is fully conscious - reveals, not so much shortcomings in the Organization, as substantial defects in the conduct of certain Member States, and those defects can be remedied only by a greater degree of submission on the part of all Member States to the authority of the United Nations. 5. This is what is referred to in international law as the surrender to the legal community of a portion of absolute national sovereignty.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“It is true that certain events of the past year do not seem to have found a wholly satisfactory solution, or at least the solution desired by the majority of States represented here. I refer, to cite but one example, to the case of Hungary. But the Hungarian problem, far from demonstrating the ineffectiveness of the United Nations, emphasizes the need for its existence and for its improvement, having regard to the differing and opposed conceptions of international law and morality which are the reflection of differing cultures and civilizations. 4. No one would suggest that because some patients still die, medicine and surgery should be prohibited.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“May I offer Sir Leslie Munro my country’s congratulations on his well-deserved election as President of the Assembly. I wish also to express my Government's gratitude to all the delegations present for their virtually unanimous election of Paraguay to a vice-presidency of the Assembly. I am proud to have the opportunity of making this statement of Paraguay's position with respect to the United Nations. 2. Paraguay whole-heartedly believes in international organization under legal and moral rules to promote beneficial international co-operation. Our faith in the United Nations grows ever stronger and we consider that its capacity to guide the destiny of mankind is steadily increasing. 3.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)