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Solano Lopez

THE RECORD WRITES THIS SPEAKER AS SOLANO LOPEZ

lines on the record: 172
first: 1966-09-24
most recent: 1972-09-24
sittings or episodes: 6
sources: un-general-debate

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“Our plan is that these roads will in the near future be like proverbial arms linking our brothers of the Pacific Coast to our brothers of the Atlantic Coast across the territory of Paraguay. 232. My country is one of the only two countries in America which have to deal not only with the problems peculiar to developing States, or countries which are in a state of relative economic development, but also with the problems arising from their position as landlocked countries. As such it has fought and is still fighting with unshakable determination to establish definitive principles of international law which will in justice and equity give all countries like mine — and like the countries of the President of the General Assembly — the right of free and unrestricted transit across tho territories of coastal States.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“Realizing that the scarcity, if not the total lack, of communication would impose restrictions on this integration effort, Paraguay, under a dynamic and enterprising Government and despite its limited financial means, has used and is using a considerable proportion of its resources for constructing and extending its roads, which already run from tho western frontier with Bolivia to the eastern frontier with Brazil and the southern frontier with Argentina. In a country which until recently did not have any paved highways, this national effort Is of considerable magnitude. As well as bringing new areas effectively into the national economy, those roads — many of which are all-weather highways — link up with the roads of our friends and neighbours.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“We are participating with sincerity and conviction in the work leading up to the regional integration of the economies of a sizable group of countries which are united in a free trade zone, and in this we are following the line of action that leads from the national to the regional and thence to the universal. Furthermore, inside our own frontiers, we are now working on an additional task with an eye to the future. 231.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“This does not mean that we do not have problems but rather that, in accordance with our own convictions, we first try to find appropriate solutions by direct negotiation. On the other hand, in eases where questions of principle or questions of general interest, are at stake, or where the particular rights and interests coincide with the rights and interests of other Member States, we have never been, and shall never be, found wanting. We have also taken it upon ourselves to keep the General Assembly informed, year after year, about my country's constant progress and advancement. 230.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“With the same sense of appreciation, I should like to say that my country attaches great value to the manifold efforts being made by the United Nations to bring progressive industrialization to our developing countries, and I want to express our gratitude for the positive effects at the national level of UNDP projects and assistance, and for the co-operation displayed by the specialized agencies. 229. My delegation has said more than once, without boasting but and without false modesty, that we consider it an honour — and indeed a credit to our tradition in the United Nations — that in all the years of our Organization's existence, the General Assembly has never had to deal with specific items relating to problems peculiar to my country. The doors are crossed the threshold.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“There will soon be a further opportunity at the Second Conference on Trade and Development, to be held in 1937 — a further opportunity for the industrialized countries as a group to pay due regard to our legitimate demands. 226. These States have an inescapable duty to help in securing justice in the distribution of wealth, not merely because right is on our side, but in order to safeguard their own interests in a world which is becoming increasingly interdependent, both economically and socially. 227. Here I should like to thank the representatives of the so-called Group of Seventy-Seven in the Trade and Development Hoard for their intense and constant efforts on behalf of all members of the Group. 228.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“has been and will continue to be a widening of the gap between the developed and the underdeveloped countries; and although political colonialism may be on its last legs, the economic colonialism applied to countries with an agricultural economy will remain unless the present conditions for the production and export of agricultural commodities are radically changed" [1297th meeting, para. 122]. The same is true of countries which export other raw materials. 225. I have quoted these comments, which are still relevant today, in connexion with the efforts made by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to correct this situation. The results of its efforts have so far been modest, just like the results achieved at the mid-point of the United Nations Development Decade.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“I also referred, in my brief review of problems at the beginning of my statement, to the struggles and appeals of tho developing peoples for true justice in tin distribution of wealth. In the interest of all, our world can not go on presenting tho sorry spectacle of a few peoples enjoying all its wealth while many others — tho vast majority — are struggling against poverty and often even against complete destitution. The peoples who are dependent on agricultural economies, the producers of primary commodities and raw materials — those are tho ones who are suffering all the adverse effects of the imbalance inherent in an unfair system of trade which must not be allowed to continue. From this very rostrum, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of my country said two years ago that the result of this system of trade: "...”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“I am referring to General Assembly resolution 2131 (XX) — that is, the Declaration on the Inadmissibility of Intervention in the Domestic Affairs of States and the Protection of Their Independence and Sovereignty. My delegation, which is proud to have co-sponsored the draft that the Assembly adopted as a resolution, is happy to note that our agenda includes an item dealing with the status of the implementation of this Declaration. Violations of the principles and norms contained in the Declaration should be the subject of constant consideration by the Assembly; and in this connexion the events of January 1905, which were the subject of a joint submission to the Security Council by the representatives of Latin American States, will certainly be mentioned by us during the debate on this item in the First Committee. 224.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“In the slow legal, political and moral development which I mentioned earlier, and in the efforts to accelerate it, the United Nations is playing a constant and major role in establishing legal principles governing international co-existence. Some of the resolutions adopted by the General Assembly have already become historic documents. I am thinking, to mention only two examples, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. 223. More recently, during the twentieth session of the General Assembly, those important declarations were followed by another.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“In this connexion, scarcely two weeks ago in this very hall [1412th meeting] the United States representative made some proposals which are designed to remove the conflict from the bloody field of battle to the bloodless level of peace negotiations. Since those proposals were put forward, we have heard several comments, many in favour, some against. Of the letter, some were designed to cast doubt on the sincerity of the proposals. We are not satisfied with judgements of this kind, because we believe that the only positive way to discover the true nature of the proposals, which we ourselves regard as sincere, is to put them to the test. Until this happens, and until those who can and should assess the proposals have dime so, there is no good reason for describing them in advance as disingenuous. 222.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“This treaty has become a reality, as we expect it will, Latin America will have given an encouraging example of what can be achieved if the collective will is placed in the service of a cause which transcends merely regional frontiers and takes on universal moaning. 221. I said earlier that the war in Viet-Nam is having an effect on this Assembly, which itself reflects the anguish of the world. There are few events which would be welcomed as much as a cessation of this bloody struggle; and the search for formulas to restore peace in the region must be continued unremittingly, even though all previous efforts have been frustrated.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“Scarcely a year ago, here before this Assembly [1347th meeting], the purest voice of all rose above our own weak voices and brought us a message of love and peace in the words of the supreme Pontiff, Pope Paul VI — words which shook the conscience of the world. For our own good, lot us bear his message in mind, and above all, let us practise his teachings. 220. With regard to efforts to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the Latin American States, including of course my own country, are at present endeavouring to bring about the denuclearization of the region by means of a treaty.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“I must say that in this respect I was impressed by the remarks made in this hall a few days ago by Mr. Aiken, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ireland, when he was referring to the possibilities to which I have mentioned, and I quote: "For their own safety and prosperity and for the peace and prosperity of the world, it would be better if the potential nuclear States firmly made up their minds to seek their security and prestige in improving the lives of their own peoples and those of their poorer neighbours throughout the world and in helping to build up reliable and effective United Nations conciliation and peace-keeping procedures." [1434th meeting, para. 5.] 219. As time is already running out, the voices of reason must speak out more forcefully to safeguard what is the common heritage of the human race.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“In the few States which possess nuclear weapons there is a concentration of terrifying potential destructive power. If one bears in mind that, ever since the day when the flames of the Second World War were extinguished, we have been living under the threat of a third conflagration which would be the final holocaust for the human race, it is easy to see why the problems relating to the proliferation of nuclear weapons must be given undisputed priority. We know, of course, that several other States have the potential resources for manufacturing these weapons, provided that they are ready to make the huge financial and other sacrifices involved and provided, of course, that they are prepared to defer other more urgent aspirations of their peoples.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“For these reasons, and in these circumstances, we have an unquestionable right and an inescapable duty to combine our efforts to establish the universal rule of justice without restrictions, to safeguard and defend the dignity of every human being, to apply without restriction the principle of the sovereign equality of States, and to ensure the full enforcement and respect of international law which is continually being developed and brought into line with the realities of the present-day world. 217. I know that I am talking for a small country, and I realize that, because of this, my voice on its own is weak, as are other voices like mine in this hall. But, when weak voices join together, they become an outcry, and an outcry can be heard. 218.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“We are fighting against tremendous difficulties which are due, it seems, to what a famous author has described as the serious imbalance that exists in our era and in our time between the remarkable progress of science and technology — the benefits of which, I might add, are enjoyed only by a few peoples — and the slow legal, political and moral development of mankind, the slow rate of development in this case operating particularly to the disadvantage of the peoples of the developing countries. 216.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“On the contrary, the success of this or of any other session, and also the very fate of our Organization and of its efforts to create the better world which we all desire will depend, in the last analysis, on the confrontation of our ideas and viewpoints, on the presentation in constructive dialogue of the different historical, political and philosophical interests we represent, and on our ability to strike a proper balance between our differing views. 215. A task of this magnitude is not easy, nor can we necessarily expect positive results.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“The agenda for this session contains about a hundred items of a diversity and complexity which reflect the urgency of the problems that our countries are facing, both individually and in their collective efforts. I have briefly mentioned only a few of these problems, and merely by way of illustration. When in this General Assembly, or in the various Committees, we come to consider each of these items in detail, our views will differ and will frequently conflict. But that should not discourage us — and of course it does not discourage us.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“President, and like mine, and like the vast majority of countries which belong to this Organization, are still struggling day after day, with stubborn perseverance, to bring nearer the day when our peoples will be able to make a substantial improvement in their standard of living, and to secure justice in the distribution of wealth, which even today a few peoples possess to excess while many peoples have too little. As we survey this discouraging scene, we should at the same time like to try to extract from the repeated postponements of our most cherished aspirations, and from our manifold frustrations, some tonic which will flourish our hopes and give us grounds for optimism. 214.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“Once again, the General Assembly is resuming its work in international circumstances which are overcast with ominous clouds. However regrettable it may be, we are obliged to note that potentially explosive situations remain unresolved in various parts of the world. In the southern part of Africa, the most negative forms of racial discrimination still persist, and the repeated appeals by the United Nations for the abolition of this discrimination are being blatantly ignored. In South-East Asia, the war which is tearing Viet-Nam asunder and reducing it to ashes is increasing in intensity. In various continents there are peoples who, in spite of their own unremitting struggle and our collective efforts, are still waiting for the day when they become masters of their own sovereign destinies. 213. And the developing countries like yours, Mr.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)
“211. My delegation is very glad that Mr. Pazhwak of Afghanistan is now occupying the highest office in the General Assembly, and it regards his election as a tribute to his great personal qualities. Furthermore, knowing him as we do after years of friendly relations, we are sure he is the right man to bring our deliberations to a successful conclusion. We also know that, when we come to the end of this session, his name will be added to the list of those who, like his predecessor, Mr. Fanfani, and other illustrious men, have earned our gratitude for the valuable services they have rendered to the cause of international peace and security. With these words, and with a solemn promise of our unconditional cooperation, we welcome his election. 212.”
1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)