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Guerrero

THE RECORD WRITES THIS SPEAKER AS GUERRERO

lines on the record: 167
first: 1968-09-24
most recent: 1970-09-24
sittings or episodes: 3
sources: un-general-debate

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“Every State, of course, offers its own answer; however, taken together, these answers do not yield a broad common denominator which can be considered an expression of the view of the international community. There is agreement, however, that indifference cannot be tolerated when the civilian population is exposed to the horrors of war. 69. The activity of the Organization of African Unity deserves our praise, for it represents the effort and responsibility of the States which are closest to the situation, without prejudice to the spheres of interest common to all members of the international community. There can be no doubt that that Organization is in a position to take the most effective action. 70.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“Because such tremendous stores of emotion are involved — greater, in fact, than the stockpiles of weapons — some time will be needed to assess the situation carefully and arrive at a stable solution in that important part of the world. 68. World public opinion has always been moved by the upheavals and suffering attendant upon all armed conflicts, whether domestic or international. In Africa we are now witnessing a civil war with characteristics that everyone, and particularly those involved, would have liked to eliminate. It would appear that the international community - cannot give an appropriate answer to the situation through institutional channels.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The situation in the region continues to be serious and some solution must be found since none of the parties wishes large-scale hostilities to break out. Sceptics will say that there cannot be a miracle; nevertheless, the catalytic effect of the persistent efforts of the United Nations, supported by circumstances preventing the indefinite persistence of insecurity in the region, is making itself felt. My Government supports the efforts of the United Nations to bring the parties directly involved closer together, and hopes that a breakdown of this. complicated problem into its various components — the questions of the Holy Places of Jerusalem, refugees and navigation — will pave the way for the restoration of peace.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“My Government continues to follow with anxiety the events in the Middle East, which has remained a hotbed of tension with recurrent sporadic outbreaks of violence. The negotiations undertaken by Ambassador Jarring — so delicate, but most discreetly and intelligently conducted, and fraught with so many difficulties — maintain a United Nations presence in the region. Furthermore, the Security Council is keeping watch over the situation and the Observers of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization play an important role on the ill-defined lines separating the belligerents. We feel that this problem must be solved, for the people involved in the conflict cannot live indefinitely under the present conditions.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“However, since the international community will survive indefinitely, diseases have the time which they do not have in man, because of his short lifetime, to become chronic and produce their harmful effects. The habit of accepting certain problems as inevitable could in the long run have very serious consequences, despite all the efforts made to keep them localized. The fact that those malignancies have not spread or proliferated must be acknowledged as a relative achievement of the international community. Nevertheless, they are still potentially dangerous, and efforts should be made to cure them without waiting until they become acute or grow chronic and weaken the society of States. 67.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The United Nations has made its presence felt and has helped to try to solve the problems, but for a variety of reasons, the results have not been commensurate with its efforts. We hope that in 1969 the fires still raging in the Far East, the Middle East and Africa will be extinguished, on terms which will allow of stable settlements. The United Nations, of course, is not frightened by such conflicts: it was created to deal with them. However, there is cause for concern in the increasing tendency to live with such hotbeds of hostility or tension and in the tacit failure to attempt to settle them, in the hope that the international community will tolerate them as the body tolerates chronic illnesses.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“During the debate on this item at the twenty-second session of the General Assembly, some countries expressed doubts as to the scope of that instrument, but debate may have helped to clarify that inertion, so that the States outside the region which have de jure or de facto international responsibility for territories in the region may at some future time sign Additional Protocol I and those possessing nuclear weapons may sign Additional Protocol II, thereby supporting the firm and repeated decision of the Latin American countries to remain free from nuclear weapons. 66. We must remember that a number of centres of tension or open hostility have remained active during 1968 and that, while their influence may be localized for the moment, they constitute potential dangers to world peace.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“Of course, if the Treaty is not followed by other agreements and if no agreement is reached on international control of the production of nuclear devices and the eventual and necessary reduction and even destruction of atomic stockpiles, the results we were led to expect will not materialize. Even so, the Treaty will be of some benefit, since the risk of a nuclear holocaust is greater if there are fifteen or twenty nuclear Powers than if there are just five as at present. But the existing threat due to there being already five nuclear Powers is more than enough to wipe out the human race from the earth in a single day. 65. The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons was preceded by the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“We believe the solemn promises which the nuclear Powers made during the discussions of the draft treaty in the First Committee of the United Nations and in the effectiveness of article VI, which lays down that “each of the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to the cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control”. 64. When the draft treaty was discussed in the First Committee, my Government officially presented its views and supported the draft by voting in favour of it for the reasons set forth at that time.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The United Nations has achieved a major triumph with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons [resolution 2373 (XXII)], which has crowned earlier efforts to reduce the field in which atomic weapons remain uncontrolled, such as the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, the Treaty on the Exploration and Use of Outer Space [resolution 2222 (XXI)], the Moscow Treaty of 1963 on nuclear weapons tests and the Tlatelolco Treaty. However, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is not enough, for the great nuclear Powers still continue their atomic weapons race without restraint and keep the tragic threat of total destruction hanging over mankind.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“All countries, big, medium and small, have something to gain from an institutionalized international society. When international principles and rules are flouted, the result is confusion in which the offenders find themselves caught in a trap from which, in the long run, there is no escape, even with all the resources of realpolitik. 62. The United Nations was established primarily to organize and maintain peace and security, but peace and security considered in relation to the social, economic and political factors on which they are founded, in other words, as the result of international coexistence, not as an isolated phenomenon. 63.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“61. The principles and rules of international coexistence must be examined whenever applied, whether rightly or wrongly, and all States without distinction have a right to do that, as participants in joint undertakings, principally the joint undertaking of the United Nations. The idea that nothing human is alien to man has become a basic principle of contemporary international society through the work of numerous world-wide organizations. That is why the United Nations is so important, as a forum for world public opinion where the interests of all peoples converge, as an expression of friendliness in their relations fostered by the natural sympathy of man for man, and as a reflection of practical needs in the light of social and economic interrelationships and increasing cultural exchanges.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The fact that in 1968 the United Nations has 125 Members working together, formally committed by a system of principles and rules, is a sign of wide agreement on the essential features of a certain type of international society and of the inexorable, necessary and justified process which is leading former colonies and protectorates to independence. 60. We are being optimistic, and not generous, when we state that the negative aspects of the record I have mentioned represent different ways of applying to specific cases principles which have been solemnly accepted and shared. However, to explain certain facts as in large measure the result of the inertia of old practices, is not to justify them. To throw the pious mantle of oblivion over certain events which have shaken this Organization is not the best way to serve it or to strengthen it.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“The year 1968 will go down in the history of the United Nations as one in which important peace proposals concerning the threat of atomic catastrophe reached fruition when steps were taken to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons, but that same year local conventional wars continued and certain principles which had been the backbone of international coexistence for several decades were put to the test. The record of some problems solved, of others still unsolved and of the breach of the principles of coexistence is factual evidence of the immense difficulty of the task facing our Organization and of the urgent need for perseverance, cautious constructive innovation and creative spirit if the purposes enshrined in the Charter are to be achieved.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“During its twenty-second and twenty-third sessions, the General Assembly admitted Southern Yemen, Mauritius and Swaziland. I am pleased to express El Salvador’s satisfaction at the admission of these States, for they come to contribute to a task which requires the co-operation of all peoples if the vast and complex programme outlined in the Charter is to be carried out under the pressure of economic problems unique in the history of mankind. We welcome Southern Yemen, Mauritius, Swaziland and their Governments and representatives to the United Nations and sincerely hope that they will maintain constructive relations with this Organization. 59.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“That acknowledgement does honour to Guatemala, a country which plays a constructive role in the international community and in the process of integration in Central America, and to which my country is tied by bonds of common interest and sincere friendship. 57. We also wish to join other nations in expressing our. appreciation for the efforts of Mr. Corneliu Manescu, President of the General Assembly at its twenty-second session. He led the Organization with the required objectivity and calm, he directed the work of the General Assembly with singular skill, and has fully earned the praise of all the delegations to the United Nations. 58. The aim of universality of the United Nations comes steadily nearer achievement as new Members are admitted.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)
“55. El Salvador considers the honour paid to Mr. Emilio Arenales, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Guatemala and President of the General Assembly at its twenty-third session, to be among the most gratifying events which have occurred throughout the history of its participation in the work of the United Nations, in which it has displayed an unswerving devotion to the principles and rules governing the international organization. 56. The international community has bestowed this supreme honour upon Mr. Arenales in recognition of his qualities, his outstanding efforts in a wide variety of international activities, and his devotion to the principles of the United Nations, particularly peace and security, development as the common responsibility of all mankind, and recognition of the rights to which every human being is entitled.”
1968-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 23 (1968)