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  1. “The Foreign Minister of Israel has often derided the Declaration of the Arab Summit Conference held at Khartoum from 29 August to 1 September 1967 as signifying bad faith and intransigence on the part of the Arabs because it set forth the determination of the Arab nation not to recognize or negotiate with Israel or surrender the rights of the people of Palestine to their homeland. 21. Let me proclaim from this rostrum that this remains the Arab position. It has not changed; nor will the twenty years of the Israeli usurpation of Palestine or subsequent Israeli conquests endow Israel with any rights whatsoever.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

  2. “The question, therefore, is essentially related to the continued existence of the Palestinians as a people and their right to struggle by every means in order to maintain their national identity and uphold their inherent right to stay in their homeland. No State, no international organization, can deny them that right or ask them to disperse, or for ever live on the charity of others, as refugees. 19. The Zionist leaders have often suggested that the Arabs were belligerent because they challenged the right of Israel to exist within secure and recognized boundaries; as if the existence of Israel was not based on the dispersal of the Palestinians; as if the boundaries of Israel were not extended through aggression and forceful occupation. 20.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

  3. “The Foreign Minister of Israel is certainly not serious in trying to base a claim to Arab land on historical considerations going back 3,000 years—that is, to 1,000 B.C. He is certainly not so naive as to try to reshape the map of the world into the form it had in 1,000 B.C. If he really thinks that that is a basis for his claim; if he considers that any people that have been where they are for less than 3,000 years can be dislodged with impunity, then surely the Foreign Minister of Israel would not only lose the rostrum from which he has been displaying his eloquence, but he would be looking in vain in this part of the world for the limitless military, monetary and moral support by which a people of only 2 million have been encouraged to defy a nation of 100 million. 18.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

  4. “The people of Palestine were evacuated through campaigns of unmitigated terror and atrocity, and the homes and lands of the Palestinians were usurped by immigrants from Europe who had no better claim to the land than a worshipper in the Kowloon Mosque of Hong Kong could have to Mecca. 16. Thus it was estimated, as late as 1954, that 350 out of 40O Jewish settlements were established on lands that had belonged to Palestinians who subsequently became refugees— those refugees that the United Nations has reaffirmed, year after year for over two decades, should be repatriated or adequately compensated. Those are the people who have the undeniable right to the land of Palestine. Those are the people that the United Nations has abandoned to the Zionist aggressors. 17.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

  5. “Zionist propaganda often relates its title to the land of Palestine to a legendary domicile, going back to biblical times. It is an incontestable historical fact, however, that for 3,000 years—prior to 1948—Palestine had not been once under Jewish administration. There have always been Jews in Palestine, but they represented only 9 per cent of the population by 1918. 15. During the time of the partition, when Israel acquired by force of arms an area two-thirds in excess of the area assigned to the Jewish State by the partition resolution, there were still more Arabs than Jews in Palestine. This clearly represented an intolerable situation for the Zionists, who coveted the land of the Arabs in order to establish the Zionist State—rooted in the concept of racial exclusiveness and intolerance.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

  6. “We have no doubt that the failure of this Organization is due to a large extent to the tendency of the imperialist Powers to use the United Nations as an instrument of their policies. This abuse has inevitably led to the decline in the prestige of the Organization and to a severe limitation of its capabilities and resources and has engendered a lack of confidence in its effectiveness. 13. The failure of the Organization to solve the situation in the Middle East is not of recent origin; and it will continue to plague this Organization so long as it persists in ignoring the essential nature of the question of Palestine. The struggle that the Palestinians and the Arabs have been engaged in is a struggle of the indigenous population against alien domination. 14.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

  7. “We come to the United Nations in hope but without illusions, since we, like many others of our continent of Africa and of the Arab world, have experienced too many setbacks and disappointments to harbour any illusions. We have witnessed, only too often, the failure of the United Nations to uphold the values and principles of its Charter. We have observed with dismay the progressive stultification of United Nations endeavours in the maintenance and preservation of peace and the frustration of its efforts for multilateral economic co-operation. 12. However, the reasons for the failure of this Organization to be an effective instrument for peace and progress are not far to seek.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

  8. “Thus we have recognized and applauded the support of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, which has declared its solidarity with the people of Palestine in their struggle for national liberation. 10. The revolutionary Government of the Democratic Republic of the Sudan has accorded full diplomatic recognition to those Governments and maintains with them the closest and most cordial relations, ever conscious of the fact that the unity of the progressive forces of the world will eventually triumph over the forces of darkness and reaction. 11. Thus we come to the United Nations, to this Assembly, as one of its smaller Members, perhaps less endowed than many others in terms of economic development, but confident in our belief that it is by our own effort and sacrifice that we can achieve the goals that we have set for ourselves.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

  9. “8. We, therefore, stand united with the progressive and revolutionary forces, not only in the Arab world, but also in the world at large, acting in full awareness of the role that these forces can play in working for the happiness and prosperity of mankind. Among such forces we count the Palestine revolutionary movement whose struggle we are pledged to support by every means at our disposal, mobilizing our resources and our people for the cause of the liberation of Palestine. 9. It follows from this commitment that our relations with other States have been redefined in accordance with their attitude towards that issue. Thus we have recognized and applauded the courageous stand of the German Democratic Republic, which has given full recognition and support to the Palestine liberation movement.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

  10. “One of the first acts of this revolutionary Government was to define the goals of our economic policy—rejecting all forms of exploitation within the country and foreign domination from without. 6. We refused economic aid that would seek to impose on us conditions on how the funds were to be invested or modify the socialist orientation of our economic planning; we declared our irrevocable commitment to the attainment of socialism as the most humane and just system for our society. 7. The concept of non-alignment in international relations is to us, as an Arab country, conscious of the historic unity and destiny of the Arab people, endowed with a positive element. We do not stand in the middle of the road, maintaining a position of neutrality between the imperialist camp and the socialist countries. There can be no such neutrality for us.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

  11. “We came ultimately to realize that in order to safeguard our sovereignty and national unity we had to be constantly watchful and vigilant against the forces of neo-colonialism that continued to support and encourage divisiveness and dissension. This realization did not come easily to us, nor did it come without sacrifice. 5. My Government has pledged itself to a policy that takes into account all the lessons that we learnt during those fourteen years of trials and tribulations, the fourteen years of our independence. We declared in one of the first edicts of our revolutionary Government that our policy would be directed primarily towards the betterment of our forgotten people, the peasants and the workers to whom independence had meant little more than a change of masters.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

  12. “We had hoped to co-operate with all nations on friendly and equal terms. 4. We were soon to learn, however, that independence was without meaning or value if it were not complete in every way, in the economic as well as in the political spheres. It did not take us long to discover that the forms of Western democracy, imposed on tribal and under-developed institutions, could only lead to the consolidation of the forces of reaction. We also learnt that a system of free and uncontrolled economic enterprise, in conditions of general under-development, would inevitably result in exploitation and injustice.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

  13. “They have to reflect most soberly and seriously that in this age of neo-colonialism Africans continue to suffer the frustration of their efforts to achieve ultimate liberation. 3. We in the Sudan, like the peoples of many other countries in Africa and Asia, regained our independence when colonialism was beginning to recede as a result of the determined efforts of the peoples of these two continents to be free of foreign domination. The fourteen years of our independence since 1956 have been years of great experience. Like so many other countries of the African continent, we emerged as a sovereign nation after the disruption and exploitation of the colonial era, in the confidence that we would be able to achieve our aims through the representative institutions of liberal democracy.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)

  14. “1. Madam President, it is with a feeling of deep satisfaction that I express my congratulations to you on your election to the presidency of the twenty-fourth session of the General Assembly. You have represented your country at the United Nations for some years with competence and distinction. Now, Madam President, it is the whole of Africa and not only your country that has desired the honour and privilege of your election to this distinguished office. As an African, I am delighted to congratulate you most sincerely on this rare and well-deserved privilege. 2. However, Madam President, although the African Members of this Assembly may rejoice in your election, they have, looking outside this Assembly, little cause for satisfaction.”

    1969-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 24 (1969)