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NGARUKIYINTWALI

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first: 1979-09-24
most recent: 1988-09-24
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“Notwithstanding the constant appeals made from this rostrum for respect for the fundamental principles of the United Nations Charter, which all States Members of our Organization are committed to respect and promote, international peace and security are endangered by the tendency to support the principle that might is right. For certain peoples - in particular the Sahraoui people and the Palestinian people - the implementation of the principle of self-determination is still but a pious wish, while non-interference in the internal affairs of other States, respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity and the peaceful settlement of disputes are principles that continue to be violated. The situations Lebanon, Afghanistan and Cambodia, as well as the war between Iran and Iraq, thus continue to be of grave concern to the Organization.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“In the firm belief that the ethical standards based on the principles of international law will overcome the unacceptable claims of the Pretoria regime, I cannot fail to reaffirm the unswerving support of the Rwanda's Republic for the freedom fighters who are battling this retrograde regime. Similarly, we continue to support the front-line States, which the South African leaders are trying to subdue by making them the victims of blackmail, destabilization and economic sabotage. Apart from the situation in southern Africa, where the odious system of apartheid gives rise to oppression and violence, there are sources of tension elsewhere on the African continent and elsewhere in the world.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“The intransigence and arrogance of the champions of the policy of apartheid is an outrage to all countries that cherish peace, justice and freedom and are convinced that the Namibian people must exercise its right to self-determination, that the South African people must be allowed to realize its aspirations to democracy and that the countries of southern African must be allowed to enjoy a climate of security conducive to stability and development. With regard to the problem of Namibia, in particular the Rwanda's Government believes that the settlement plan contained in Security Council resolution 435 (1978) remains the only appropriate framework for a solution in keeping with the need to realize the right of the Namibian people to live In freedom and dignity.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“This Is true of the explosive situation in southern Africa, which is the result of the practices of the racist minority regime in Pretoria - a regime continually at odds with the international community because of its policy of apartheid, its illegal occupation of Namibia and its acts of destabilization and intimidation against the front-line States. The Pretoria regime stubbornly clings to its outmoded anachronistic policies. It has shown an unwillingness to change that is unacceptable and stubbornly refuses to take into account the legitimate aspirations of the South African majority. It has engaged In stalling manoeuvres to delay the Independence of Namibia and made of Its neighbours targets of its State terrorism. .”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“The Government of Rwanda attaches great importance to the efforts the international community is called upon to make in this connection, in particular to foster co-operation based on consultations with mutual respect for each partner and taking into account the needs, realities and interests of everyone in order to reach a genuine contract of solidarity that leads to meeting the challenges of the times and those flowing from the expectations and aspirations that regulate the progress of Individual countries and peoples on the path to development! and provides a constantly renewed dynamism adapted to the needs of the future. Against the background of the concerns arising from the persistent economic crisis, the international community must also deal with political problems that engender Insecurity, tension and even open conflict.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“This commitment must now take the form of concrete action with measures making it possible to improve the international economic climate and establish development programmes enjoying a significant increase in financial resources originating from both bilateral co-operation and institutions specializing in multilateral co-operation. That is how the constructive dialogue that marked the special session devoted to the economic problems of Africa will - above and beyond enhancing the awareness of priority aspects of the development problems facing an entire continent striving for survival - help to generate efforts aimed at promoting a more active form of solidarity.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“More than a year and a half ago the General Assembly adopted the United Nations Programme of Action for African Economic Recovery 1986-1990. The adoption of that programme was not an end in itself, but an important step in efforts to strengthen active solidarity with a view to restoring African economies. Since that time African countries have, and at great sacrifice, made certain structural changes. Africa has thus demonstrated its willingness to deal, in a responsible manner, with the serious problems jeopardizing its development. It is comforting to note that our partners, for their part, have decided to support the efforts of African countries.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“For Africa, the external debt is a heavy burden, a bottle-neck in the development process, for it is one of the many negative factors that are undermining its ability to pay, while the imbalances m international economic trade from which it suffers are being exacerbated. Africa hopes that its partners will take measures to alleviate its external debt burden, which is primarily linked to the economic and financial constraints flowing from deterioration in the terms of trade, together with a deteriorating raw materials prices that create chronic deficits and heighten the crisis in the entire continent, where growth has collapsed. The international community is now well aware of the need to create a more stable economic environment in order to promote development in Africa.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“In this spirit, with regards to the clearly expressed desire to channel a larger share of development aid to the least developed countries, the Assembly is called upon to carry out a more thorough debate with a view to having the international community clearly define the ways and means to be mobilized to overcome the obstacles standing in the way of the development of third-world countries. In particular, production capacity must be increased, as must financial resources devoted to development aid; and the constraints inherent in the external debt burden must be alleviated. The debt problem has caused the most acute concern for the third-world countries, in particular African countries.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“The challenges the third world must face require such an approach, which should be geared towards solutions expressing the collective will to bring about growth and development for the benefit of all parties. In this content the commitments endorsed in UNCTAD should now lead rapidly to concrete actions with a view to overcoming, in solidarity and complementarity, the ongoing crucial problems in the area of international economic relations. The current session of the General Assembly provides an excellent opportunity to bolster the optimism aroused in this respect by the consensus that emerged from the debates at UNCTAD VII and to spell out the priorities that were adopted with regard to improving the lot of the poorest countries.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“The international community refuses to accept the inevitability of the decline in and instability of prices confronting third-world producers which must deal with the combined effects of the acts and the fall In their revenue in international markets, where raw material prices have collapsed and ate now lower than they have been for 50 years. UNCTAD VII showed that the time has come not for resignation but for realism, the kind of realism that should lead to new efforts to ensure development, taking into account the changes caused by an increasingly obvious interdependence which demands that there be solidarity and complementarity in the promotion of universally shared prosperity.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“Among the results that give cause for optimism regarding the likelihood of finding satisfactory solutions to the most urgent economic problems facing the international community are the provisions made to Implement the Common Fund for Commodities. The developing countries whose economies depend largely on the export of their raw materials ate Indeed pleased that UNCTAD has attributed so much Importance to this question and is considering it from the angle of reducing the negative Impact of successive fluctuations in commodity prices.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“They are therefore in danger of falling into a state of chronic underdevelopment. At every suitable opportunity the international community emphasizes its concern over this situation, stating that lasting growth for the countries of the third world depends upon increased financial flows to them, more balanced trade and a realistic, concerted approach to solving the problem of indebtedness. Consideration of development and economic growth viewed in these terms was a feature of the Seventh United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), which took place in Geneva last July. The pragmatism and realism that characterized that Conference should give a new Impetus to the resumption of the North-South dialogue.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“The world economy is still experiencing a crisis which threatens the very survival of the countries of the third world and could thwart their arduous development efforts. The crisis is essentially structural in nature for it affects the mechanisms which govern international economic relations at the present time and has an increasingly negative effect owing mainly to the instability of financial markets, the continuing deterioration of terms of trade, the stagnation in the raw materials markets and the debt problem. The persistence of these forces is a serious obstacle to the development efforts of the countries of the third world, which are thus caught up in a complex and dangerous spiral of the constant deterioration of the world economic situation and the inexorable reduction of their resources, their purchasing power.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“One of those negative factors is the policy of certain countries which are reluctant to accept the principles based on universal legality} other such factors are the oppression of peoples who legitimately desire respect for their inalienable rights and the persistence of sources of tension and conflicts in the world. These factors cause acute concern at the present time when the world community should be devoting its main efforts to meeting the challenges brought about by the economic imbalances that afflict the developing countries. Far from decreasing, the economic difficulties, on which the General Assembly puts growing emphasis, are increasing and taking on new dimensions that bode ill for the progress that all peoples desire.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“At this session the commitment we entered into in this respect, in 1962 takes on a particular significance, for this is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Rwanda and its admission to the United Nations family. In recalling this dual anniversary I wish to reaffirm on behalf of the Government of Rwanda the Republic of Rwanda's support for the objectives laid down in the Charter. This support is accompanied by the hope that the negative factors that imperil the attainment of these objectives will gradually disappear.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“This Assembly provides the framework within which efforts to improve the lot of mankind on the basis of the ethical standards shared by all countries that cherish peace, freedom, equality, justice and progress are harmonized. On joining the United Nations as its 97th Member, on 18 September 1962, the Republic of Rwanda solemnly expressed its determination to abide by those ethical standards, which are based on equal rights for all peoples and the ideal of peace and co-operation expressed in San Francisco in 1945. The Republic of Rwanda hopes that this ideal will take ever more concrete form and that the efforts of all Member States will ensure that our Organization can carry out the mission assigned to it, Rwanda will always be among the countries eager to work in this sense.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“States Members of the United Nations have faithfully adhered to a well-established tradition and come to their annual meeting arranged so that they can together consider in a constructive dialogue the problems facing the international community. Every session of the General Assembly constitutes an ideal opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to the fundamental purposes and principles of our Organization as set forth in the Charter. The Charter charges Member States with the mission of working for peace and contributing to the development of international relations for the purpose of promoting the prosperity and economic and social progress which all peoples desire.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“Rwanda, an active participant in that process and proud to belong to the great United Nations family, is always receptive to any proposal which is in accordance with the principles of the Charter and will enable our Organization to consolidate our existing achievements and to keep intact the ideal which it is dedicated to promoting.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“I would also like to express once more our great appreciation to your predecessor, Ambassador Jaime de Pinies, for the way in which he guided our work throughout his presidency of the General Assembly at its fortieth session. I also wish to pay a tribute to the Secretary-General, Mr. Javier Perez de Cuellar; the Government of Rwanda admires the dynamism and efficiency with which during his current term of office, now coming to an end, he has constantly ensured that the United Nations should at all times be fully committed to the process of solidarity which will be a decisive factor in determining the future of mankind.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“Rwanda hopes that that desire will always actively encourage the international community to promote the fundamental purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter. That hope is strengthened at the current session, Mr. President, by the fact that you have been chosen to guide our work. Your election is a well-deserved tribute to you personally, in recognition of your eminent qualities, enhanced by a wealth of extensive experience, and also a tribute to your country, Bangladesh, in recognition of its active role in the family of nations. In offering you my warmest and most sincere congratulations, I assure you that Rwanda, privileged to be at your side in the Bureau of the General Assembly will spare no effort to contribute to the success of this session.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“The Rwandese delegation today reaffirms its commitment, and expresses its great appreciation of the results achieved by our Organization in its efforts to build an international community which, by dealing successfully with military confrontations, political crises and tensions and the socio-economic challenges with which it is faced, will be able to translate into action the philosophy based on the grand design of promoting peace and progress for the benefit of all peoples. Because of its dedication to that great task, the Organization continues to be the ideal setting for the constructive exchange of ideas between partners inspired by the strong and ardent desire to make collective decisions about their common future.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“Consequently, Rwanda appreciates the efforts to promote and consolidate the process of normalizing relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, being convinced that that process is a tangible factor within the framework of detente and hoping that it will continue in a realistic and pragmatic manner with due regard for the constant hope of the German people to be reunited. Similarly, Rwanda supports any initiatives which are directed through a constructive dialog, without external interference or pressure, towards the peaceful reunification of the Korean nation. Every session gives Member States a unique opportunity to make an act of faith by renewing their commitment to the ideals enshrined in the Charter.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“In the context of this International Year of Peace, peace that should go hand in hand with justice and the equitable sharing of mankind's resources, our Organization should strengthen the awareness of the intrinsic relationship between security, well-being and prosperity, to which all peoples aspire as we approach the end of this century. The fate of divided nations is a matter of constant concern to our Organization. The Government of Rwanda seizes every possible opportunity to refer to that concern. It has done so regularly here, deploring the fact that one people, belonging to the same nation, heirs to the same culture and molded by the same history, should be artificially divided.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“Disarmament for development is a relatively new concept, but it is clearly grounded in logics in an age when the triumphs of science and technology have led to miraculous achievements, when few exploits appear beyond the reach of mankind's creativity, we can no longer tolerate the contrast between the poignant tragedy of the peoples of the third world, which face the worst sort of uncertainty about their future and even about their survival, and the scandal of the enormous financial, material and technological resources devoted to the production of weapons of mass extermination.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“To the extent that efforts to encourage detente also promote international peace and security, the resumption of the dialog between the two major world Powers gives cause for satisfaction and hope, as long as the good intentions claimed by both sides lead to concrete action which can strengthen the trust that must underlie their relations and be reflected throughout the international community. The Government of Rwanda is extremely interested in this important dialog, for we are convinced that disarmament is an aspect of development.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“Therefore, to strengthen its efforts to establish a climate conducive to international peace and security, the United Nations must do everything it can to guarantee that peoples still under foreign domination secure the freedom they desire. Similarly, to retain its credibility the Organization must make a decisive contribution to the settlement of conflicts and tensions in various areas of the third world which have become the battlefield of greed and foreign interference. Previous speakers have stressed the serious risks incurred by raising the stakes in the arms race, given the specter of nuclear war that haunts us all. The very existence of mankind is at stake.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“Rwanda reaffirms its solidarity not only with the peoples and states in southern Africa facing increasing danger as a result of the arrogance and expansionism of the Pretoria regime, but also with the Palestinian people, convinced that it would be foolish to try to promote a just and lasting peace in the Middle East without guaranteeing respect for the rights of that people in the spirit of the fundamental purposes and principles of the Organization and without withdrawal by the State of Israel from all the Arab territories occupied by force since 1967. The Government of Rwanda cannot compromise on the universal principle of the right of all peoples to self-determination.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“On the specific question of Namibia, 20 years after the United Nations decision to revoke South Africa's Mandate over that Territory, the International Conference on the Immediate Independence of Namibia, held in Vienna in July 1986, and the special session of the General Assembly held from 17 to 20 September this year have appropriately stressed the gravity of the problem and the urgent need for implementation of Security Council resolution 435 (1978), which is recognized as the sole acceptable basis for a final settlement that takes into account the legitimate, inalienable rights of the Namibian people.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“Abroad, it engages in endless delaying tactics to postpone Namibia's inevitable accession to independence and steps up its acts of aggression, destabilization and intimidation against the front-line States, which it would like to bring to heel. Rwanda is more than ever convinced that it is its duty to fight that regime, which is a disgrace to mankind. This is the duty of all peoples that cherish freedom and justice and support the struggle to bring democracy to South Africa and independence to Namibia.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“In this connection it is of the utmost urgency for the international community to take collective action to impose the force of law in South Africa, Namibia, the Middle East and Western Sahara - indeed, wherever peace is still subjected to the vicissitudes of policies and practices that run counter to universal morality and legality. The situation in southern Africa is making that region a land filled with resentment, a powder-keg ready to explode. With indescribable arrogance the advocates of apartheid have taken their practice of that outdated doctrine to extremes, making it the ideological basis of a demonic system condemned by all. The Pretoria regime is notorious for the crimes it has committed in South Africa itself in order to perpetuate the most obnoxious racism.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“It is deplorable that the application of that code of ethics as an immutable rule of conduct is flawed by unacceptable exceptions, political crises and tension and even open conflicts, which are handicaps and obstacles to the achievement of the purposes set out in the Charter of the United Nations. Thanks to the perseverance of the United Nations/ the majority of colonial peoples have regained their freedom. Unfortunately, the decolonization process remains incomplete? many peoples still live under anachronistic domination. In this context, the Assembly, at the current session, must forcefully reaffirm that the legitimate aspiration of peoples to self-determination, independence and freedom must never be frustrated.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“Beyond the concerns linked to the condition of the world economy, on the political level and in the context of the International Year of Peace, the present session will have to reaffirm the fundamental principles on which security in the world must be built. Those principles constitute a code of ethics based on respect for the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of all States, non-interference in the internal affairs of other States, respect for the right of all peoples to self-determination and the principle of the settlement of disputes by peaceful means.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“Held from 27 May to 1 June 1986 as the result of an appeal made by the Organization of African Unity (OAU), that session, which will constitute a landmark, led to the adoption of the United Nations Program of Action for African Economic Recovery and Development 1986-1990. That session will constitute a landmark because it gave Africa a unique opportunity to engage in a dialog with its partners to open the way for more active solidarity on behalf of an entire continent which is seeking survival and which, having realistically and rigorously set out the most urgent conditions likely to guarantee the success of its efforts for economic recovery, will not yield to despair, despite the magnitude of the obstacles to its development, which is more than ever before a long-term task.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“This calls for a firm commitment on the political level, good will and large financial investments. All these are elements through which the spirit of solidarity shown by its partners in regard to the continent must acquire the dimensions of a lasting and dynamic co-operation making it possible to establish a basis for development while at the same time supporting its own efforts, for which external assistance is indispensable. It is in this perspective that the special session of the General Assembly of the United Nations devoted to a consideration of the economic situation in Africa must be viewed.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“Rwanda attaches great importance to all initiatives and specific actions whereby the international community undertakes, at a South-South as well as North-south level, to build a better world for the benefit of all. in an over-all context, where the adverse impact of the international economic crisis strikes all countries in varying degrees, an entire continent - Africa - has been exposed to that crisis under particular conditions which have brought it virtually to the brink of disaster. Africa is still the continent where the problems of under-development assume their most heart-rending form. Africa contains the greatest number of countries classified by the United Nations as least developed - those which must face the most serious handicaps to development. Africa needs the active support of its partners to restore its economy.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“To that end, our Organization must display persistence and a fertile and creative imagination in order effectively to assume its proper role that of actively contributing to a change in current relations so as to achieve the principles of solidarity and complementarity set out in the Charter. In this context, the delegation of Rwanda reaffirms the need to intensify international co-operation through an approach taking into consideration current needs so as to assure the best possible foundations for the process of development. The countries of the third world commit themselves in this regard to a meaningful contribution through the efforts they are deploying to promote and strengthen horizontal co-operation at their level.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“This in itself would justify the demands calling for a new international economic order on a more just basis, governed by machinery which, combining the realities, interests and needs of all in a framework of true interdependence, would assure a balance capable of generating the impetus that would enable the third world to face the numerous challenges inherent in underdevelopment. The Republic of Rwanda is convinced that the North-South dialog is the most appropriate means to reverse the present trend and promote the positive evolution of international economic relations.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“One cannot but deplore the fact that over the years the problems of development have acquired increasingly worrisome dimensions because of the continuing deterioration of the world economy and the persistent crisis that has kept the third world in a state of precarious survival. While the economies of the industrialized countries seem to be headed towards resumed growth, the situation is quite different for their partners in the South: the gap is widening, emphasizing the imbalances under which the latter are suffering.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“That commitment has as a corollary the need to engage in constructive dialog in order to put into effect the great purposes which, enshrined in the Charter, have made this Organization a meeting point of hopes shared by all peoples that love peace, that peace which is not merely the opposite of war but also an element of - indeed, a synonym for - progress and prosperity, to be promoted in a spirit of active solidarity and effective unison. In this respect, will 1986, the International Year of Peace, become a milestone in the overall evolution which should progressively bring the international community closer to the aims it wishes to achieve through concerted effort? The answer to that question remains open. In the economic sphere, the situation facing most countries is highly alarming.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“The States represented within this Assembly have committed themselves to an ideal inherent in those principles - an ideal that has led to a new dynamism in international relations and to which, at every session, those States pay solemn tribute, whilst reaffirming their commitment to act in concert to ensure that peace - the result of an order based on justice - may be constantly strengthened and consolidated.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“The General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed 1986 as the International Year of Peace. In that context, the present session is working towards an objective which represents the very essence of the fundamental principles which prevailed at the creation of the Organization, whose vocation it is to work for the promotion and maintenance of peace, staving off war and any threat of war while promoting all efforts aimed at developing co-operation that would improve the fate of mankind.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“The people of Rwanda, firmly convinced that on this subject its determination and faith are the same as that of the peoples with whom it shares the aspirations expressed in 1945, solemnly reaffirms its commitments under the Charter, whose principles offer the best guidance for mankind as it seeks peace, security and prosperity. May the United Nations endure in its respect for its fundamental principles, and may it attain its noble, indeed, sublime objectives.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Thus, in addition to declarations of principle aimed at taking note of this community of interests among all peoples and proclaiming the need for a new impetus to promote the policy of detente, concord and co-operation, we must ensure that this anniversary becomes a decisive stage in the strengthening of the role of our Organization in the face of the challenges the international community must take up in order to influence the course of events in such a way as to avoid the reefs on which it could founder were it to abandon the collective determination to translate into reality the objectives laid down in the San Francisco Charter.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“In this spirit, this fortieth anniversary oust, for each Member State, be the occasion for reaffirming its commitment to the promotion of this ideal, so that the international community can take steps to safeguard its future, by ensuring a real and lasting peace and by enabling the countries of the third world to escape the cycle of underdevelopment and to benefit from an effective reduction of the tensions of which they only too often constitute the stakes.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“In this spirit, the Rwandese Republic hopes that the fortieth anniversary of the United Nations will indeed offer us an opportunity to take stock quite objectively of what has been achieved over the past four decades, so as to provide an accurate picture of what we can all do to bring our undertaking to a successful conclusion and to attain more fully our common objectives, guided by the determination to hold high the standard of the ideal that inspired the authors of the Charter signed in 1945 at San Francisco.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Javier Perez de Cuellar, for his part, deserves the warmest congratulations, which I address to him today on behalf of the Government of Rwanda, and I would once again express to him our great appreciation of the dynamism and competence with which he promotes the objectives of our Organization and strives to ensure that it not only remains but develops even further as the special setting in which are expressed the noble aspirations and fundamental values of peoples, and that a salutary convergence of their interests and a perfect symbiosis of their behavior and policies, inherent in the complementarity of their interests, take tangible shape.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“At the same time, I should like to pay tribute to Ambassador Paul Lusaka, who presided with much verve over the work of the thirty-ninth session of the General Assembly, and that of the Preparatory Committee for this anniversary, thus reflecting great credit on Africa in general and on his own country, Zambia, in particular. The Secretary-General, Mr.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“Having emphasized the concern that the Rwandese Republic shares with all other countries devoted to peace, freedom, equality and justice concern which is inherent in the economic crisis which is compounded by a wide variety of political tensions - I should like to echo the eminent speakers who have preceded me on this podium, and in my turn, and on behalf of the delegation of Rwanda, address our most heartfelt and sincere congratulations to Ambassador de Pinies of Spain personally, as well as to all the officers with whom he was elected to guide the work of this current session of the General Assembly, which is being held in a specific context involving the commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of our Organization.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)
“On the eve of the International Year of Peace, and inasmuch as peace cannot be conceived of or become a reality without justice - which presupposes the equitable sharing of the resources of all humanity - the gift that the United Nations most richly deserves on the occasion of its fortieth anniversary is for the international community- to become more aware of the intrinsic linkage between disarmament and development, between the demands of security and the aspirations of peoples for well-being and prosperity.”
1985-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 40 (1985)