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1968-09-24

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1. “have countries with more limited resources — often agricultural — whose mineral industries, when they exist, are generally extractive and usually supply industries situated elsewhere, whose road, social, economic and industrial infrastructures are mostly still very incomplete, if they exist at all, and whose capital and investment resources are scarce because income and savings are scanty. That is the all-too-familiar picture of the third world and the coming States, particularly those which have just acceded to independence. Of course, there are islands of prosperity, but in reality it is only a relative prosperity in the general desolation. 46. The causes? Backwardness, partly due no doubt to physical factors, but partly also to historical and political factors which have left their mark on the economies of those countries.”

   1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

2. “For are not armed conflicts, like conflicts of interest, struggles for influence, and are not ideological conflicts often based on economic factors? 43. Thus, while progress, trade and development have become a vital need for the third world States, they also represent a factor of peace and stability for the international community. For how can we hope for lasting stability so long as the general economic imbalance persists? 44. On the one hand, we have the industrial world, equipped with human resources, admittedly, its highly skilled and efficient personnel, its industries, its infrastructure, its capital, its substantial accumulation of goods and services. 45. On the other hand, we.”

   1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

3. “My Government has always considered that the internal régimes of States, their political, cultural, social and economic choices, must be determined by the free play of their institutions, without any external interference. It is convinced that this must be so for the young States of Africa. 42. Could it be that it was otherwise in Western Europe, which has the singular privilege of being the birthplace of one of the most illustrious of cultures — the German culture — and the breeding-ground of the two most destructive wars ever known? Peace then for all, through the confrontation and exchange of ideas and experience, through free discussion, through consultation and a patient Will to reach an understanding, and through social justice, in the service of the secure development of all States, or rather perhaps of the less-developed States.”

   1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

4. “Nevertheless, the events in stricken South-East Asia, in still partly unliberated Africa, and in the ravaged Middle East cannot mask in Europe the vestiges and aftermath of the Second — one would like to say the last - World War. Spheres of influence, opposing blocs, the resurgence now and then of the cold war — in this strange situation the third world States realize their tragic weakness with feelings of anguish. 41. The leaders of these young States feel that the only way to achieve harmony and understanding among peoples is by respecting their right to self-determination, and to the full and free development of their own particular genius.”

   1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

5. “Peace in Viet-Nam, a country which has experienced one of the most grievous situations of the post-war era, Viet-Nam which has revealed a new face of South-East Asia — a face of undaunted courage. Tenacity, heroism and poignant sacrifice have transformed the Viet-Nam war, no matter how we look at it, into the martyrdom of an entire nation. That is why the whole world was relieved to learn of the opening of negotiations in Paris between Viet-Nam and the United States, with the hope that the dialogue thus initiated would lead to peace and put an end to the omnipresent spectacle of devastation and sacrifice. 39. The world awaits and hopes for a halt to the bombing of North Viet-Nara, as a decisive contribution to the cause of peace and to the success of negotiations. 40.”

   1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

6. “Our solidarity with the Arab people is in consequence even stronger because the Arab-Israel problem is not an ethnic or religious problem; it is a political problem of peaceful coexistence. We are bound to the Arab people by many ties — geographical, historical and political. It is a fact that of 100 million Arabs all told, 80 million live in Africa. It is a second fact that they are members of the Organization of African Unity. It is a third fact that it is they who today are being put to the test. And it is for all these reasons — geographical, moral and political—that we stand today by the Arab people, and hope to achieve with them a just and lasting peace. 38. Peace in the Middle East and in the Far East, a peace long anxiously awaited.”

   1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

7. “My Government considers that negotiations should be undertaken under United Nations auspices because — and it should not be forgotten — it was under United Nations auspices that Israel was created. 36. Having thus restated its position, my Government appeals with the utmost earnestness for peace in the Middle East, in that land from which have issued so many messages of peace and brotherhood. For the world has not yet forgotten the atrocities of the Hitler régime or the recent tribulations of the Jewish people. The black world remembers them still more clearly, because it shared with the Jews, not, of course, the Nazi concentration camps, but the same Nazi opprobrium and hatred. 37.”

   1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

8. “In its opinion, the solution to the Arab-Israel crises lies essentially in compliance with United Nations resolutions. These call for the withdrawal of Israel troops from the occupied territories, for respect for the territorial integrity and the sovereignty of the contending States, for a just settlement of the refugee problem, for restoration of the international status of the city of Jerusalem, and for freedom of navigation in the international waterways of the region. 35. In my Government’s view, the best guarantee of a stable and firm peace in the Middle East is to be sought in the guarantee — after the withdrawal of the Israeli troops — of the frontiers of the States of the region — Israel and the Arab States — by the United Nations in general, and by the four great Powers in particular.”

   1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

9. “In the Middle East, we cannot view the disquieting developments in the Arab-Israel crisis without deep misgivings. Violations by Israel of the cease-fire have increased; the refugee situation, which was already difficult, has deteriorated; the city of Jerusalem has been de facto annexed by Israel; Arab territories are still occupied by Israel troops; the mission of Ambassador Jarring, to whom we wish to pay tribute, is based essentially on faith in the mission of the United Nations. 34. The Government of Senegal has already defined its position on this complex and distressing situation. It is against all war or use of force as a means of settlement of disputes between nations, and wishes to reaffirm its opposition to all military occupation or annexation of the territory of one country by another.”

   1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

10. “If relations among nations and people were to be governed by the iniquitous law of violence and force, the brutal law of force which violates all freedoms, then the prospect would be dismal for all, even for those who now uphold colonial oppression, apartheid and racial discrimination. 32. But already, on the threshold of the twenty-third session of the General Assembly, the international community has grave causes for concern: an alarming situation in the Middle East; seething tension elsewhere; an ever-growing accumulation of weapons of destruction with the almost inconceivable spectre of their destructive power; the intolerable pauperization cf the countries of the third world which are now the proletarians of the international community. 33.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

11. “Did the United Nations affirm that its role was to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, did it proclaim its faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small and did it inscribe these principles in its Charter like a motto—merely in order to watch resignedly the summary execution of Rhodesian patriots, the humiliating practice of apartheid in South Africa and a war of colonial reconquest and domination in Guinea (Bissau), Mozambique and Angola? 31. The law of the United Nations can only mean the law of respect for the human person, of respect for the right of peoples — all peoples — to self-determination, and of justice as the formation of peaceful social order.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

12. “We are confounded by the apparently blind obstinacy of those who oppose the great liberation movement of the African peoples—the peoples who are subjected to Portuguese extortion and repression in Guinea (Bissau), Angola and Mozambique where they are fighting and dying to wrest back their freedom or who are fighting in Namibia and Rhodesia to obtain the right to govern themselves. 30. My delegation does not recall these problems merely in order to deplore yet again the bitter incomprehension attending them, nor even in order to add to the numerous condemnations of Portugal and of the Pretoria and Salisbury régimes. From the United Nations we all expect more than that.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

13. “Since the Charter was signed in San Francisco, 1,000 million human beings have recovered the right to settle their own fate. They have recovered it by various means and in various ways, assisted in many cases by the efforts of the United Nations, and also by the developments following the last war, of a more acute awareness of the human state. Where men have regained their human dignity, colonial repression and dependence have been replaced by free and open co-operation based on mutual respect for national sovereignty and legitimate interests. 29.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

14. “This independence is of course a source of satisfaction to the United Nations, but it also gives us food for thought and grounds for hope. It is a source of satisfaction in the first place for the people of Swaziland and also for the community of freedom-loving nations which always feel encouraged whenever a new State freely takes its place among the independent Members of the United Nations. 27. But beyond the Kingdom of Swaziland, to which today full external and internal sovereignty has been restored, the international community faces once again the problem of countries, peoples and men still subject to foreign domination. This problem is a challenge to the conscience of us all, and especially of those States which have subscribed to the principles of the United Nations. 28.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

15. “My delegation welcomes this election because it knows that Guatemala is devoted to the cause of peaceful coexistence based on mutual respect, and to co-operation among States, and also because that country is a declared advocate of regional organizations as a means of restoring to Latin America the feeling for its own destiny, thereby following the same path as that taken by the young African States, which have organized themselves into regional groups and embarked on a process of progressive integration in an endeavour to fulfil their aspirations through organization. 26. In an Africa which is rediscovering its identity, the Government and people of Senegal wish to welcome the accession to independence of the Kingdom of Swaziland.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)

16. “25. My delegation offers Mr. Arenales its warmest congratulations on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly of the United Nations. His election as the head of this great international tribunal is evidence of the growing importance of the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America, and of their sincere desire to be present wherever the community of free nations demonstrates its will to strengthen peace and establish justice through understanding among peoples.”

    1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)