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“It is our duty to see to it that our populations live long and in good health, to see to it that future generations derive the greatest benefit from the experiences we have had and that we are having now, so that, tomorrow, our legacy to them will be a world that has not been destroyed, a generous nature, a land united on the solid foundations of friendship, brotherhood, love and peace.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“I wish at this point to conclude my statement on a hopeful note. There is a clear awareness today that our planetary community is inextricably interrelated, that it rests on a natural unity based on scientific and medical discoveries and the speed of communications. But despite, and perhaps because of, this very progress there remains a certain fragility in the balance of our world. Our calling as human beings endowed with reason is therefore to remain united and to ensure together, hand in hand, the survival of humankind.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“In the face of this tragic situation and in support of the Addis Ababa Agreement, which was the result on last 28 March of the Conference on National Reconciliation in Somalia, the international community, through the United Nations, gave the United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM II) a mandate to continue the disarmament and to work towards national reconciliation, and at the same time, and most important, towards the strengthening of political institutions. We are pleased to note that today, in spite of the sporadic turmoil of recent months, UNOSOM II has begun to help the Somali people restore the sovereignty and integrity of the State. It is in Somalia’s and the whole international community’s interests for this mission to continue and that it achieve the desired results.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“The interests of the Angolan people reside exclusively in the national effort that all must make to restore peace and harmony to Angola. We Senegalese, for our part, support all efforts to help them in this regard. There is also the situation in Somalia, where a great deal remains to be done to restore peace and organize a viable State. The United Nations there is on the right path, conducting the most ambitious and largest operation ever organized in Africa. My country would like to express its pleasure once again over the organization of this operation in a country that is today experiencing a tragic and complex situation. The infrastructure has been devastated, the State has collapsed and fratricidal internal strife has engendered massive displacements of the population.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“The magnitude of the destruction and suffering caused by this situation warrants urgent efforts to arrive at a definitive cease-fire and a resumption of negotiations. The framework already exists: the Bicesse Accords, endorsed by the United Nations. The principles on which any solution to the conflict must be based are also very clear: the safeguarding of Angola’s territorial integrity and national unity and also, above all, respect for the will of the Angolan people, freely expressed in the elections a year ago. On these bases, my country would here like to send out a solemn appeal to all our Angolan brothers and sisters, above all those of UNITA, to understand that it is not in the interests of the Angolan people to continue the fighting.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“In any event, it is in order to uphold respect for that commitment that my country, whose Head of State is Chairman of the Sixth Islamic Summit Conference, intends to continue the efforts he has already begun to contribute to the promotion of peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in close cooperation with all countries that cherish the same ideals of peace and justice. Forty-eighth session - 6 October l993 11 I also have in mind the painful situation prevailing in Angola. The Bicesse Accords, although freely entered into by the parties to the conflict, seem today to have collapsed. By calling into question the validity of the elections organized a year ago under those same Bicesse Accords, UNITA has once again plunged Angola into an atmosphere fraught with danger and uncertainty.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“My thoughts turn also to Bosnia and Herzegovina, a martyred State and a State Member of the United Nations. I believe the international community has endeavoured in every stage of the evolution of the situation in the former Yugoslavia to guarantee the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the international community has committed itself to enforcing, above all, the rights of the Bosnian people, a people today undeniably the victim of true genocide. This commitment must be respected because the very credibility of our Organization is at stake.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“My country, Senegal, which has always and in every way been committed to strengthening peace and promoting security, feels that working towards this objective means, first and foremost, affirming forcefully the rule of law in international relations. Lasting peace and security, in fact, can be guaranteed only if all nations of the world comply with the rule of law in their relations with other nations. That law must be the same for all if justice is to prevail. In this context, and in connection with the tragedy of the fraternal people of Kuwait, I welcome the happy conclusions that have been reached by the Iraq-Kuwait Boundary Demarcation Commission. The international community must continue to protect all States from any external threat to their independence and sovereignty.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“The legacy of the collapsing old order is in fact often an unwieldy one, difficult to manage. On the ruins of oppression which lasted for far too long we must build a new world, a world of freedom and peace, of justice and progress. During this uncertain period of transition, border conflicts, problems between neighbours and religious tensions bring a return to the conflicts - civil war, genocide, rivalry among members of the same national community - of an era we thought past. Yugoslavia, Somalia, Angola: there are many examples that show that universal peace, that primary objective of the United Nations, is yet but an aspiration. The challenge, therefore, is to do all in our power so that in all parts of the world the freedoms regained will open the way to peace.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“I also have in mind South Africa, where considerable progress has been made toward eliminating a system which the entire world rejected and condemned, and where peoples, united in fruitful diversity, must work together for the emergence of a human community characterized by justice and equality. My country, Senegal, will respond to the appeal made in this Hall a few days ago by President Nelson Mandela, when, from this very rostrum, he invited the international community to take a new approach consistent with the evolution of the situation in his country. All of these are excellent examples of the fact that these new times bear new hopes, even though we still have grounds for legitimate concern. In fact, despite the victories that freedom has won, when peoples are liberated peace is not always the result.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“I have in mind, inter alia, Cambodia, where the settlement plan designed by the United Nations led to the holding in May 1993 of general, orderly and democratic elections, as a result of which a legitimate Government was established; El Salvador, where, after several years of civil war, negotiations conducted under the auspices of the United Nations led to the signing, at the beginning of last year, of the Mexico Agreement, which initiated a period of transition towards general elections planned for the beginning of 1994; Liberia, where repeated initiatives pursued by the members of the Economic Community of West African States, supported by the United Nations and by the Organization of African Unity, made it possible to conclude, in July 1993, a new peace agreement which should, as we fervently hope, lead to a definitive settlement of that fratricidal conflict; and Mozambique and Rwanda, where similar agreements have been concluded and where the United Nations has been meaningfully involved in their practical and complete implementation.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“It is now up to the international community to work to consolidate this important step in the direction of a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East. In this endeavour, the United Nations family can rely, as in the past, on the constant and active support of my country to ensure that in that holy land Israelis and Palestinians can bring humankind into harmony with its profound values of tolerance, wisdom and concord. That is also the way we view the efforts made to resolve conflicts that in the past seemed beyond any human solution.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“In this connection, the delegation of Senegal solemnly commends the international community for the efforts that made possible the signing in Washington on 13 September 1993 of the agreement between the State of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. This historic event put an end to many decades of hostility and rancour, which cost thousands of lives and left many wounded and many alone, orphaned or widowed - all because of a lack of understanding which itself led to the destruction of the conditions for development in the Middle Eastern countries as a whole. And, what is more, there was the flare-up in oil prices which began in October 1973 and 10 General Assembly - Forty-eighth session which led to the inflationary curves that have since then characterized the global economy everywhere in the world.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“This important measure reflects the concerns of the Head of State of Senegal, President Abdou Diouf, who, when he addressed this Assembly last year, on this very date, launched the idea of a general agreement on solidarity as the foundation for fruitful international economic cooperation, the driving force of North-South solidarity in a renewed form. Ancient African wisdom - the ancient wisdom of our continent -teaches us that human beings, who alone can change and improve their own environment, are endowed with prodigious intellectual and moral resources, resources based on intelligence, imagination and the ability to rise to a situation in a way that makes it possible for them to fulfil their destiny. We must remain united and mutually supportive.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“They must understand that international solidarity can be expressed only through the mutual support that nations must give each other. In this respect, our continent, Africa, and many Asian countries should receive this support in a context of mutual respect. In other words, the proposal for an "agenda for development" initiated by the Brazilian delegation, with the support of the Group of 77, to accompany the "Agenda for Peace" submitted by our Secretary-General, Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, deserves the international community’s attention.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“It is fortunate that a country such as France - which I am pleased to mention, together with other industrialized countries that are supporting Africa - reaffirmed just a few days ago in Paris, through Mr. Alain Juppé, Minister for Foreign Affairs, that the West in general and the European countries in particular must be aware that if the majority of the populations of the world remain hungry, poor, bearing the weight of the distortions in the international economy, and if, in addition, they see their efforts to achieve political and social democracy destroyed by difficulties of all types, then there will always be a risk that international peace will be destabilized. The industrialized countries must move in the right direction.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“That is why, together with my colleagues the other heads of delegations, I would like on behalf of my country - an African country, a Sahelian country, a developing country - to join other delegations in repeating to the nations gathered here that, in spite of all these problems, we do not have the right to despair. For it is obvious today that the salvation of humankind resides in solidarity and in friendship and cooperation between human beings. The fundamental and logical underpinnings of relations between peoples are, more than ever before, dialogue and agreement, expressed through firm language that translates our thoughts about the human being and about life.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“States have been created; the structures of an economy have been established; and political and economic leaders have been trained and set to work to help these peoples fulfil their destinies. But inequalities remain, even though an unprecedented global crisis today affects the economies of all countries, including even those of the most highly industrialized nations. The world economy seems to have become dislocated. It has lost its balance. New rules are established and developed day by day in the quest for new balances and new solutions. And all this is done in a situation that increasingly jeopardizes international peace. This situation could, if we are not careful, lead to impatience, to intolerance, to irritation, to a lack of dialogue - in short, to inevitable confrontation. Such a threat is unacceptable, and we must not accept it.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“The fact is that the world has changed - yes, it has changed - and the transformations that characterize this end of the twentieth century are so profound that the international community at large feels the need to reform radically the way the United Nations functions, as regards, particularly, the composition of the Security Council, the financial management of the United Nations and cooperation for development, to mention just a few of the most acute needs of the present day. The world has changed. As for the African continent - to take this as a point of reference - most of the peoples formerly under foreign domination have acceded to independence.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“They even controlled the raw materials that were produced, to a great extent, in the underdeveloped regions. At the same time, while the prices of these raw materials were falling year after year at a dizzying pace, other nations were forced to buy at a high price and with reduced resources the consumer goods produced in the industrialized countries. Those nations were devoting all of their export income to these transactions and were therefore unable to invest in order to ensure their own development. Thus doomed to indebtedness, they lost a significant part of Forty-eighth session - 6 October l993 9 their own sovereignty just as they were taking their first tentative steps onto the international scene. And here we are today, 15 years later, gathered together to evaluate, in an outpouring of solidarity, the distance we have covered.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“The first of these was the accession to political sovereignty of peoples that had not yet experienced freedom, that had been denied the full exercise of inalienable rights inherent to every human being on Earth. Those rights had been denied them by other men, other peoples, other States and other nations in the name of a system that was imposed on them and to which they had been subjected. Hope in their fellow man was their only defence. The other focal point of attention was the grave inequality of conditions for the economic, social, human and cultural development of nations. Some of these nations had near-total control of scientific developments, industrial technology, transport and communications, the cultural media and world trade networks.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“Finally, I should like to extend my country’s congratulations to all the new States Members of our Organization - the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the Principality of Monaco, the Principality of Andorra and Eritrea. I welcome all of them to the United Nations family. Some 15 years ago, in September 1978, I had the honour for the first time, in my capacity as the new Minister for Foreign Affairs of Senegal, to address this Assembly. As the young head of the diplomatic corps of an African country, I referred to the many problems then confronting the international community and which revolved around two basic focal points.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“Stoyan Ganev, former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, guided the proceedings of the forty-seventh session of our General Assembly with a competence and effectiveness that deserve our appreciation and gratitude. We wish heartily to congratulate him. I should like to pay a special tribute to our Secretary- General, Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, for the enormous energy that he has expended with such foresight and courage to ensure the implementation of the principles and the realization of the objectives of the Charter of our Organization. The personal friendship that I have shared with that eminent citizen of the world for almost 25 years allows me to reiterate the esteem and admiration that I have always felt towards him.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“President, aware of your brilliant political record and the outstanding role your country plays on the international scene - extends to you through me the warm congratulations of my country, our people and its leaders. We have no doubt about your mastery of international practice, for we know that your vast experience as a statesman will make it possible for you to conduct, with effectiveness, intelligence and skill the work of this session of the General Assembly. My best wishes are thus with you in your election and with the task you have been called upon to accomplish, until September 1994, from this historic and lofty rostrum. Your predecessor, Mr.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“The General Assembly’s annual convening in New York is a world event which, each year, expresses the hope of nations and peoples to find common ground, through dialogue and joint effort, in order to live together their shared destiny. In a world that is becoming daily more diverse and in which peoples are witness to so many contradictions, is it not here and now, in close friendship and fraternal dialogue, that humanity, with its boundless intellectual and ethical potential, can embark on a process of self-examination and be reconciled with the universal conscience, which is also the foundation of our human calling to live together and in harmony? It is in that belief that the delegation of Senegal - which participated in your election, Mr.”
1993-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 48 (1993)
“Only then need we not despair of ourselves, for we shall be men—men of peace, men of dialogue, men of generosity; men of a generation which will not have lived for nothing and which, having explored the moon, skirted the planets Mars and Saturn, circled Venus and admired Orion, will come back to Earth to control, with head held high, its own destiny, the destiny of mankind.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“To support each other reciprocally means that we must pool the immense technological progress achieved by mankind for the service of mankind and against the policies of the mass destruction of the resources of our planet. To support each other reciprocally means to be responsible and show solidarity with the poor peoples, impoverished by nature or threatened by calamities, those living in the more arid areas of our world or in islands surrounded by the oceans but without rainfall. We must help them to confront this real everyday hardship. 89.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“87. It is obvious that the work of UNSO cannot exclude a range of decisive actions jointly conducted by the countries concerned to help them work out and implement a coherent policy for combating this phenomenon. 88. In conclusion, let me say that our world is today burdened with difficulties of all sorts. Besides our political problems, we now have many questions to ask about the economic future of the peoples whom we represent. Should we not at last be emphasizing what unites us and casting a veil of reason over what divides us, in order to concentrate on what is essential: fostering our solidarity and giving each other reciprocal support. This means that we must act together to eradicate focal points of war, reduce tensions between peoples and turn a deaf ear to the appeals of the sirens of discord and over-armament.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“The three fundamental ideas of UNSO—and here let me pay tribute to the officials of that agency for their hard work in seeking solutions to the thorny problem of countries stricken by desertification—are the following: first, aid to the various countries and their regional institutions in the field of planning and formulating projects and programmes designed to fight the effects of drought and desertification; secondly, aid in the mobilization of the necessary resources for the implementation of the various projects and programmes, either on a bilateral or a multilateral basis or through the United Nations Trust Fund for Sudano-Sahelian Activities, with a considerable increase in the resources made available to UNSO, which at present are insignificant compared with the magnitude of the problems; and, thirdly, the management of the Trust Fund and the implementation, through the resources of that Fund, of the projects and programmes to which UNSO contributes.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“My Government hopes that at this session the General Assembly will draw up and adopt a resolution defining precise measures and appealing to the international community to make available increased resources to give effect to the conclusions of the Dakar conference. We are glad that the question of countries stricken by desertification and drought has been included in the agenda of this session. 86.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“Just a few weeks ago, in July, on the initiative of President Abdou Diouf, a ministerial conference on the two phenomena—drought and desertification— was held at Dakar, with the participation of the European Economic Community, the United Nations, FAO, UNDP and UNEP, as well as UNSO, which played a particularly active role in the preparation and conduct of the conference and in the achievement of results. 85. Among the conclusions of that conference, which we have communicated to the competent organs of the agencies I have mentioned, the concept of countries stricken by desertification has been accepted, with all the practical consequences that logically follow the adoption of such a concept by the United Nations.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“In 1973 the Secretary-General created UNSO, which between 1973 and 1978 developed into the leading organ of the United Nations system directly mandated by the General Assembly to co-ordinate the activities of United Nations agencies designed to help the countries of the Sudano-Sahelian region in their struggle against the effects of drought. UNSO's mission has since developed to cover, in particular, in addition to the Sudano-Sahelian zone, that situated north of the Equator, and to deal with the implementation of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification, adopted by the United Nations Conference on Desertification, held at Nairobi in 1977. 84.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“As has been indicated by the United Nations Sudano-Saheli- an Office [UNSO]: "The purpose of the fight against the effects of drought and desertification is essentially to rehabilitate and protect the productive potential of the land, water and other natural resources and, at the same time, to develop and strengthen man's ability to exploit these resources ..." It was in this spirit that the Permanent Inter-State Committee on Drought Control in the Sahel, composed of eight West African countries, was set up. 83.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“Every year the Sahara desert in the north of Africa, from Mauritania to the Sudan, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, moves tens of kilometres southwards, making hundreds of thou-sands of hectares unfit for agriculture and causing the movement of thousands of people and their livestock, separating them from their traditions and way of life and causing problems for the people in their new grazing areas. 82. The African countries concerned, thanks to the support and understanding of the international community, have organized themselves into sub regional and regional zones to tackle the problem of this dual phenomenon of drought and desertification.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“Drought is a phenomenon characterized each year by the virtually complete absence of precipitation in areas where irrigation is little known or unknown, thus ruling out any chance of normal agriculture and therefore of a harvest. Desertification occurs like a disease that wherever it goes destroys vegetation and watercourses, dries up rivers, streams, lakes and ponds and wipes out the food plants and aquatic and land animals on which man usually feeds. 81.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“Throughout this period, drought and desertification have inexorably dominated and invaded our continent. In 1983 no fewer than 35 African countries were afflicted by the phenomenon of drought, which is no longer limited to certain areas of west Africa but has spread to east Africa, central Africa and even southern Africa, where on both sides of the equator the existence of vast forest areas with dense vegetation stretching from the Atlantic to the Indian Oceans should guarantee regular rainfall; this, however, is now threatened. 79. Some countries of Asia and the Americas are seriously worried by the prospect of the same calamity as is threatening the African countries. 80.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“A few months ago, the Secretary-General undertook the praiseworthy initiative or visiting several countries in the black continent with a view' to mobilizing additional resources to support the already fragile economies of the African countries. While we congratulate him on this move, we at the same time renew our appeal to the international community and the specialized financial institutions to organize a world conference on indebtedness to seek the best ways to study this contemporary phenomenon, analyse its evolution and define the most appropriate remedies, in order to give a new impetus to our countries' economies and free them of the bottle-necks and other obstacles trapping them in the maze of mechanisms which are now in place and which have led to the present state of affairs. 78.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“As the final blow to our development efforts, we then have, on the monetary side, the inadequacy of financial resources, particularly on concessional terms, the stagnation or even decline of the real value of official development assistance when considered in the light of the cumulative effects of inflation and the drop in the prices of raw materials and, to crown it all, the conditions imposed under the lending policies of official and private financial institutions. 76. The developing countries are certainly not prey to despair, but how can they hope to see any light at the end of the tunnel tomorrow unless specific measures are taken today gradually to end a critical situation whose consequences could, like a shock wave, reach those tomorrow that believe today they are well out of its reach? 77.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“The result of such a situation could not fail to be a serious reduction in the gross national product of our countries and a drastic restriction of their capacity to absorb the effects of the world crisis. 74. At the same time, and on the international level, we have the effects of the following factors: persistent monetary instability; fluctuations in ex-change rates, over which we have no control; the particularly high level of interest rates; new protectionist barriers imposed by the industrialized countries; the increase in shipping rates; interest payments on commercial credits: and the constant rise in energy prices and in the cost of oil products and derivatives. 75.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“On top of this, the phenomenon of decreased rainfall has caused a marked foodstuffs deficit, Moreover, the prices of their raw materials and commodities nave consistently dropped while the costs of importing capital goods, manufactured articles and finished products have experienced an unprecedented exponential increase. This has led to a considerable fall in the export earnings of our countries. 72. The well-known inadequacy of financial re-source flows and the structural difficulties we have experienced have forced us, in order to ensure a minimum of development, to contract major debts for the purpose of breaking the deadlock. Thus, the foreign debt of the developing countries increased from $244 billion in 1977 to $625 billion in 1982 and at the end of 1983 stood at $785 billion. 73.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“It is in the light of these objectives that I wish, on behalf of Senegal, to emphasize, in this last half of my statement, two fundamental subjects of particular interest for almost all African countries: the indebtedness of the third world and the phenomenon of drought and desertification. 71. Our countries in particular have felt the full force of the world crisis. To varying degrees in recent years, they have recorded large balance-of-payments deficits, aggravated by a sharp decline in their industrial and agricultural production, thus bringing about a steady fall in their per capita income.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“I shall not refer here to the elements of that crisis nor to its many manifestations, because other speakers have already done this and the United Nations itself, at various levels, has considered all the aspects of this crisis with admirable conviction and determination. 70. In May 1974, at the urging of the countries of the third world, the General Assembly adopted the Declaration and the Programme of Action on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order, then in December that same year the Assembly adopted the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States . This new international economic order was and is still supposed to correct, inequalities, remedy injustices and close the immense gap that exists at all levels between the rich and the poor countries.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“Thus, there is no room for despair; rather, we should be optimistic and organize our efforts. Today more than ever those efforts must be applied to the constant search for the most appropriate solutions to the varied economic and financial problems affecting the world and, more particularly, the developing countries. 68. The world is currently experiencing an unprecedented economic crisis, which must not be viewed as a short-term phenomenon, much less as a cyclical occurrence, because it is deeply rooted in the superimposed imbalances and accumulated inequalities which have dominated the international economic system during the 1980s. 69.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“Finally, in Central America, if the principle of respect for the right of peoples to self-determination is observed by all, in the sub-continent and elsewhere, there is some hope of seeing the peoples of the region co-operate effectively in easing the many tensions and eliminating the hotbeds of conflict that prevail there. It is in this spirit, and this spirit only, that Senegal intends to continue to give active support to the efforts of the Contadora Group. 67. The picture of the world situation is certainly not an encouraging one. However, like the weather, international political developments are always characterized by a predictable alternation of overcast periods and periods when the elements of nature come together to produce fine weather.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“In this connection, certain States should reconsider their attitude and join the international consensus on the question of Kampuchea, particularly as that consensus takes into account the concerns of all the interested parties. Experience has shown that the use of force is not the way to solve this dispute. It is through constructive and responsible dialogue that all the parties concerned can put an end to this conflict, which has lasted far too long. In the Korean peninsula, we keep coming back to the idea of the peaceful reunification of the two sides within the framework of a sincere and fraternal quest for common ground. Our country will therefore continue to support any idea designed to secure this objective and based on the free will of the entire Korean people. 66.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“In Kampuchea, more particularly, after three years of praiseworthy and sustained diplomatic efforts, the implementation of the relevant resolutions on this question is still encountering certain obstacles, but they should not deter us from our goal, which is the restoration of peace to Kampuchea and the region. To that end, it should be emphasized that the work of the United Nations, through the Ad Hoc Committee of the International Conference on Kampuchea, presided over by Senegal, far from being directed against this or that State is, rather, designed to secure conditions necessary for a constructive dialogue between all the parties concerned.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“It is therefore only proper to hold that the people of Afghanistan and the people of Kampuchea are entitled to just recognition of their legitimate aspiration to the free choice of their political system and their leaders. In this connection, Senegal will continue to press actively for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from those two countries and for just respect for the Charter of the United Nations with regard to them, through the peaceful application of the good offices machinery of the Secretary-General and the quest for a negotiated solution between the parties concerned. So far as Senegal is concerned, in both cases the main objective is to enable the Afghan and Kampuchean peoples to exercise their right to decide, in all sovereignty, their own destiny. 64.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“Senegal, which is a member of the Islamic Peace Committee seeking peace between those two countries, takes this opportunity to repeat to the Security Council, the Movement of Non- Aligned Countries and the Organization of the Islamic Conference that it has always supported and will continue to support them in actions designed to obtain a rapid and definitive cease-fire between Teheran and Baghdad and peace negotiations on the basis of the fundamental principles of international law and the stability of the countries of the region. 63. On the Asian continent, Afghanistan and Kampuchea continue, as is known, to be subjected to the laws and domination of foreign Powers.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“As is well known, for four years now there has been a fratricidal conflict between Iran and Iraq that has taken the lives of thousands of innocent persons; huge material losses have occurred and vast resources have been wrested from the development of the two countries in a deadlocked conflict, and all this has been to no avail. Given this sorry state of affairs, all the initiatives that have been undertaken have proved fruitless.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)
“We know that since then the Secretary-General, the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries and the Organization of the Islamic Conference, as well as the Al- Quds Committee, presided over by King Hassan II, of Morocco, have made repeated efforts to ensure progress on this question. Those efforts should be encouraged and continued, because my country, which presides over the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, believes that an International Peace Conference on the Middle East, with the full participation of the PLO, should be able to bring about a definitive solution to the Middle East question. 62.”
1984-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 39 (1984)