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“The Group of Non-Aligned Countries, to which my country belongs, was established at the very outset on the concept of persistent work to ensure respect for the principles of the United Nations Charter and to observe the application of those principles in dealings among States. On several occasions the Group exerted a constructive effort that had a positive impact on the international scene. We should like, therefore, to express our firm support of the Non-Aligned Movement and of its activities. We fervently call upon all States in the various groups to extend support and encouragement to the Movement, since it has proved on several occasions that it is a positive factor of benefit to the international community as a whole.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“We appreciate the positive attitude to that initiative adopted by regional and international bodies such as the League of Arab States, the Organization of the Islamic Conference and the Non-Aligned Movement. We are pleased to note that the General Assembly has adopted the Arab position submitted by Syria for the inclusion of a new item on the agenda of this year's session of the Assembly with regard to the convening of an international conference to define terrorism and to set norms and standards to distinguish between terrorism and the struggle of peoples for national liberation. My delegation would be pleased to co-operate with other delegations in preparing a draft resolution on this subject for submission to the General Assembly for debate and adoption.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“We also exposed the deliberate attempts to confuse terrorist acts - which are totally rejected and condemned - and the struggle of peoples against foreign occupation, colonialism and racism. We said also that the international community is as much the victim of State terrorism as it is of terrorism by individuals. We have called upon the international community through the United Nations to engage in a joint effort to set rules and norms by which to draw a distinction between terrorist acts and the legitimate struggle of peoples for national liberation as provided for in the United Nations Charter and in numerous General Assembly resolutions. Accordingly, we have proposed the convening of an international conference to define terrorism and to differentiate it from the struggle of peoples for national liberation.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“We reaffirm our denunciation of attempts to expand the war and involve other countries in it and our belief in the importance of good-neighbourly relations and understanding between the Arab States of the Gulf and the Islamic Republic of Iran, as well as our demand that all foreign military fleets be withdrawn from the region. We all know that in recent years the international community has devoted a major part of its attention to the phenomenon of terrorism. I have previously stated from this rostrum our views on this subject. In our statement at the last session of the General Assembly we set out our views on terrorism and the distinction between terrorism and the legitimate struggle of peoples for freedom.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“The Syrian people in particular, and the Arab people in general, have the right to ask whether those huge concentrations of vessels are intended to ensure freedom of international navigation in the waters of the Gulf or are there to secure military bases in the region and restore the policy of spheres of influence, is the purpose of those military concentrations in the Gulf region to prevent the expansion of the war and limit its damage, or is it to embroil the other countries of the region in order to deplete all their resources and distract them from their essential national role of liberating the occupied Arab territories and recovering the usurped rights of the Palestinian Arab people? While posing those legitimate questions, we reaffirm our support for freedom of international navigation for all in the waters of the Gulf.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“Of particular note is the flocking of the military vessels of Western countries, one after the other, in the wake of the arrival of the United States fleet, after the majority of their Governments had initially voiced reservations about sending them.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“It is regrettable that the Lebanese regime has not tried, as it should have, to benefit from Syria's great help and immense sacrifices, whose purpose was to save Lebanon from fighting and chaos and place it again on the path of dialogue and national reconciliation. Nevertheless, Syria - which is bound to Lebanon by family ties, a shared destiny security, history and common interests - will spare neither toil nor sacrifice to assist our Lebanese brothers in their effort to emerge from this dark tunnel. Moreover, Syria will continue to support the heroic Lebanese resistance until the withdrawal of Israeli forces from southern Lebanon and the liberation of the last inch of Lebanese territory. The tense situation in the Gulf region is a cause of grave concern, particularly in the light of the enormous concentration of foreign military fleets.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“The economic and social institutions of our sister country, Lebanon, have suffered grave disruptions. The people of Lebanon have suffered greatly from a devastating civil War and the brutal Israeli invasion, both of which brought tremendous destruction of property, acts of terrorism and the forcible evacuation of citizens. There is no question but that many have lost confidence in the Lebanese regime as a result of the assassination last June of Lebanon's Prime Minister, Rash id Karami, a man who stood for dialogue and national reconciliation, and the failure so far to find the killers and those who backed them.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“Israel cannot for ever be protected by the unlimited support of the United States and the strategic alliance between them. Israel's imposition of its peace terms on Egypt did not and will not achieve true peace between Israel and the brother people of Egypt, no matter how hard the rulers in Cairo and Tel Aviv try to obscure these facts and mislead world public opinion. Syria believes that the establishment of a just and comprehensive peace depends on the total withdrawal of Israel from all the occupied Arab territories and on guarantees of the national rights of the Palestinian people within the framework of an international peace conference, to be held under United Nations auspices, provided that the conference is genuine and has authority.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“The Tel Aviv rulers are all agreed on not establishing a genuine, just peace in the region. Israel's rejection of peace based on justice is inevitably a source of constant concern to the entire world, no matter how calm conditions may appear on the surface. It must also be a source of true concern also to the Israelis themselves, because violence generates violence, and Israel's extremist doctrine in fighting and attempting to humiliate the Arabs will in turn give rise to more violence and extremism. Israel's bitter experience during its invasion of Lebanon still lives in the memory and will remain an irksome nightmare for the Israelis for many years to come. Israel will never enjoy peace in our region, irrespective of its military might, so long as it continues to occupy any part of the Arab lands.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“The ultimate objective of the rulers in Tel Aviv is to establish Greater Israel and impose its undisputed hegemony over the countries and peoples of the region. It is our conviction that the Israeli attitude to the international conference on peace in the Middle East should be interpreted only in the light of those facts. We ought to proceed sincerely from an objective assessment of Israeli intentions and not from illusions or the attempts of some to justify their support for or dealings with Israel. The international community can thus easily realize why Israel's rulers reject a genuine International conference and why the Israeli faction that accepts the idea of an international conference stipulates that it should be a mere umbrella for direct bilateral negotiations and have no authority whatsoever.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“It is naive to believe that the often-spoken-of differences among the rulers in Tel Aviv are differences between those who accept giving up the occupied Arab territories and those who refuse to do so. Rather/ the difference is between, on the one hand, those who want to extract a formal Arab signature on a document relinquishing most of the occupied Arab territories as well as usurped Palestinian rights and, on the other, those who do not even admit the existence of occupied Arab lands and usurped Palestinian rights. In fact, there is no substantial difference among all the rulers in Tel Aviv in regard to maintaining Israel's voracious appetite for devouring Arab lands and building more settlements thereon.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“That should not seem strange, since other regional conflicts, regardless of their intensity and destructiveness, can come to an end and just, realistic solutions can be found to them so long as neither of the parties claims to have God-given territories and rights - as is alleged by Israel. By retaining the occupied Arab territories and annexing some of them, and by building settlements there, Israel in no way adheres to the principles of international law or of the United Nations Charter. Instead, it acts - as is evident from the overall attitudes of its successive leaders - on the basis of metaphysical convictions and legendary tales backed by extremely reactionary and fundamentalist concepts.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“That is essential to respect for the sovereignty of States, their national independence and their territorial integrity and to the non-use of force in relations among States, the peaceful settlement of disputes and the right of all peoples to self-determination, the elimination of colonialism, racism, racial discrimination, apartheid and foreign occupation and domination. The Arab-Israeli conflict remains one of the most explosive regional conflicts and the farthest away from a just and lasting solution, despite the overall favourable international climate and the world-wide support for the convening of the International Conference under the auspices of the United Nations.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“Therefore, my country would support any agreement by the international community to embark on an ambitious disarmament programme that would release sufficient funds for investment in programmes of economic and social development in the world, particularly in the developing countries. Furthermore, Syria shares the conviction that the United Nations has a role to play in promoting disarmament and development, and hence in creating a general feeling of collective security. We support the initiative of the group of socialist countries calling for the establishment of a comprehensive system of international security. Such a system would be based on strengthening the role of the United Nations in the adoption of practical measures that would guarantee compliance with the provisions of the Charter and ensure their implementation.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“The obstacle to the attainment of that objective is Israel's constant refusal to adhere to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and to place its nuclear installations under international control, as well as its rejection of the system of international safeguards. The Syrian Arab Republic is well aware of the connection between disarmament and development. It is axiomatic that the world cannot continue to incur the enormous costs of the arms race while simultaneously investing, in an adequate manner, the necessary funds in programmes of economic and social development.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“Accordingly, we support the agreement in principle between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America with respect to the intermediate-range nuclear forces and tactical weapons. We consider it to be a positive step that could have considerable significance if it were followed by wider steps that would eliminate strategic nuclear weapons and lead to comprehensive and complete nuclear disarmament. Israel's possession and development of nuclear weapons and its participation in the "star wars" programme pose a direct and constant threat to security in the Middle East and Mediterranean regions. It has become imperative to declare the Middle East region a nuclear-free zone in order to ensure peace and security there.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“It has been impossible, however, totally to fulfil those noble principles owing to the escalation of aggressive tendencies, the use or the threat of the use of force in international relations and the suppression of the will of peoples with a view to dominating them and their potential. In the international domain, the arms race poses the gravest dangers to humanity. Foremost among those dangers is the possibility of a nuclear world war, whether triggered by accident or by a sense of superiority. We therefore regard every effort to reduce nuclear weapons with a view to eliminating them completely an important factor that would help to strengthen international peace and security.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“The world is now moving towards an era of co-operation and détente, following period of tension and confrontation, and a wave of optimism therefore prevails on the international scene. While we join the international community in welcoming his trend, we sincerely hope that it will lead to the achievement of just solutions to issues afflicting some of the world's peoples, foremost among which are the usurpation of peoples' rights, racial discrimination, occupation, foreign hegemony, economic exploitation and the ever-widening gap between developed and developing countries. The principles and purposes of the United Nations Charter, the aim of which is to create a human society in which justice and security reign, ushered in new hope for a better future for mankind.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“Your election to the presidency of this session of the General Assembly is indeed gratifying, Sir, especially since you represent a country linked to Syria by close ties of friendship and co-operation. We were greatly satisfied by the success of the outgoing President in conducting the work of the forty-first session. We should like to express our appreciation to him, and to wish him and his friendly country continued success. I take this opportunity to put on record our appreciation of the strenuous efforts exerted by the Secretary-General and his assistants to strengthen the role f the United Nations in safeguarding and promoting international peace and security and creating better conditions for co-operation among States.”
1987-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 42 (1987)
“It is essential that the international community intensify its efforts to avert the dangers which beset mankind and curb the continuing deterioration of the international situation, which will place the world on the brink of a terrifying disaster, the aftermath of which will spare no one. This world Organization, which remains the most appropriate forum for solving all outstanding international problems and achieving progress, deserves all our support so that it may be enabled to play its effective and useful role in contemporary international relations in accordance with the purposes and principles of the Charter.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“In the meantime, billions of dollars are being spent on weapons at the expense of the basic needs of peoples and their development, as well as at the expense of the contributions of the industrialized countries towards combating starvation, poverty and disease suffered by some developing countries. The world, as it celebrates this year the International Year of Peace, hopes that our work at this session will achieve tangible progress towards building a better world in which justice and peace prevail, and all aspects of oppression, injustice and exploitation of man by man disappear.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“On this occasion, we applaud the constructive disarmament initiative of the soviet union, specifically the unilateral moratorium on nuclear tests. At the same time, we denounce the American Strategic Defense Initiative designed to militarize outer space, and strongly condemn Israel's involvement in that program. The issue of disarmament and the elimination of nuclear weapons is a most serious one. It requires an urgent solution that would save future generations from the continuing dangers that threaten mankind with self-destruction. Any delay in finding such a solution will only render it more difficult or even impossible in the future.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“We support the initiative of the Contadora countries in this connection and strongly condemn the external pressures against, and interference in, the internal affairs of Nicaragua by the United States of America. We denounce the contempt shown by the United States of America towards the ruling of the International Court of Justice with respect to Nicaragua's just complaint. The arms race at the international level imperils mankind and exposes it to the gravest of dangers, foremost among which is the danger of a nuclear world war, whether by mistake or through a sense of superiority. We, therefore, consider every effort designed to reduce nuclear weapons as a step towards their final elimination, an important factor that would help to enhance international peace and security.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“We support the efforts of the Government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to reunite the Korean homeland by peaceful means and to achieve the withdrawal of all foreign troops from South Korea, and we support its call to convert the Korean Peninsula into a zone of peace free of military bases and nuclear weapons. we support the Government of Afghanistan in defense of its country's independence, sovereignty and non-alignment. We wish success to the steps taken to solve the difficulties existing between Afghanistan and its neighbors, to whom we are linked by close historical ties. The continuing deterioration of the situation in Central America and the Caribbean requires a settlement of the problems of that region in accordance with the wishes of their peoples without outside interference.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“The close collaboration between the Pretoria and Tel Aviv regimes, designed to break the will of the Arabs and Africans and undermine their peoples' aspirations should be strongly condemned. Those two racist regimes should be isolated in the international arena, and an end put to their racist and expansionist policies. The question of Cyprus is a source of deep concern to the Mediterranean countries. Any solution to this problem should be based on the implementation of the relevant United Nations resolutions so as to preserve for the Republic of Cyprus its sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and non-alignment.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“The complete withdrawal of the Israeli forces from all Lebanese territories and the deployment of the United Nations forces along the borders will help to pacify the situation in southern Lebanon and restore normal life to its inhabitants who, for many long years, have suffered under Israeli occupation, with its barbaric practices and interference in their daily life. The persistence of the Pretoria regime in its racist policies, acts of aggression, occupation of Namibia and defiance of the will of the international community require the application of comprehensive mandatory sanctions against that regime in accordance with Chapter VII of the Uhited Nations Charter until the elimination of apartheid and the accession to immediate independence by Namibia on the basis of Security Council resolution 435 (1978).”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“We shall keep extending that help until the Lebanese people achieve national reconciliation, liberate their territories from Israeli occupation, and regain their full role within the Arab fold and the international community. The sad events endured recently by the United Nations troops in southern Lebanon are the result of Israel's continued occupation and its refusal, from the outset, to allow the deployment of those troops along the borders, leaving them dispersed inside Lebanese territories and unable to carry out their mandate laid down in Security Council resolution 425 (1978).”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“The road to peace is an international conference under the auspices of the United Nations, attended by the permanent members of the Security Council and all the parties concerned. Lebanon continues to suffer under Israel's continuing occupation of parts of its territories and Israel's interference in its internal affairs, the sowing of hatred among its citizens and the obstruction of efforts to achieve accord and peace in Lebanon. Despite Lebanon's difficult circumstances which arise from infighting and the Israeli invasion, Syria will never cease to discharge its obligations dictated by the links of brotherhood between itself and Lebanon. The obstacles placed by Israel and the United States of America will not discourage Syria from extending help to the brotherly people of Lebanon.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“Such a course of action, however, completely ignores the fact that real peace can never be achieved against peoples' will or at the expense of their rights and national interests. We, the Arabs, have a genuine interest in peace, and we are the people who are struggling to achieve peace. But peace has its roots and fundamental prerequisites. There can be no peace in the presence of aggression and occupation. Nor can there be peace while rights continue to be usurped. Peace can only be achieved through the elimination of aggression, the ending of occupation and the restoration of Arab rights, foremost among which is the right of the Palestinian Arab people to repatriation, their right to self-determination and their right to an independent State on their native soil.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“It changes nothing that some Arab regimes fall into the Israeli-American trap or try to deceive the countries of the world by using more or less opportunistic phrases relating to peace, phrases that are used by the Americans and the Israelis whenever the world public becomes seriously conceded about the explosive situation in the Middle East and the effect it may have on world peace and security. An examination of American-Israeli claims 2nd statements shows without any doubt that Israeli and American officials have not budged one inch from their well-known positions. They want peace and security for Israel. Free the Arabs they want capitulation and acceptance of hegemony. This was laid down in the Camp David Accords and has been reaffirmed recently at the Ifrane and Alexandria meetings.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“The Syrian Arab Republic will remain committed to these concepts and principles regarding the evil of terrorism and the right to resist, regardless of whether the hostile campaigns of defamation continue or cease. As President Hafez Assad said in Athens: "We are on the side of resistance and liberation everywhere and against terrorism in any part of the world." The Middle East region, which has been divided and fragmented by the schemes of colonialists and the Zionist settlers' wars against the Arabs, cannot enjoy genuine peace as long as Israel continues to occupy Arab lands and usurp Palestinian rights, and as long as the United States continues to give its unlimited support to this Israeli policy of aggression, expansion and terror. It changes nothing that the Americans and the Israelis claim that they want peace.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“It has actually put this into practice through its backing of Lebanese and Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation on the one hand and its sincere condemnation of all forms of terrorism on the other. As everybody knows, the Syrian Arab Republic has given and continues to give humanitarian assistance with the aim of saving the lives -f scores of American, French and other citizens kidnapped in Lebanon. If we have not been able so far to save all the persons kidnapped, this is because of the complexities of the situation in Lebanon. The aim of our presence in Lebanon is well known. It is to help our Lebanese brothers put an end to the bloodshed and achieve national reconciliation among th ens elves, not to replace them or rule them.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“Israel and the United States of America have engaged in acts of State terrorism through the hijacking of Arab civil aircraft and the bombing of a number of Arab capitals and other cities, the latest of which were the American acts of aggression and barbaric raids on the residential neighborhoods of Tripoli and Benghazi. The Syrian Arab Republic has declared more than once its readiness to contribute to any joint international effort to combat terrorism. This was clearly stated in President Hafez Assad's address in Athens on 27 May 1986 during a State visit to Greece. The Syrian Arab Republic does not stop at a mere declaration of its position.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“We can understand such a position only in the light of the blind bias of the United States in favor of Israel, a country that would have the world believe that legitimate national resistance is terrorism and that systematic State terrorism is legitimate self-defense. This American position, in which we can see no justifiable moral or political interest of the United States, clearly indicates that the United States Administration is more concerned with defending the policies of aggression practiced by Israel than with the lives of its innocent citizens, who have been and continue to be subjected to acts of retaliation generated by this American position.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“The United Nations is called upon today more urgently than ever before to make a concerted international effort to draw a clear line between terrorism and resistance, so that it may be able to make an effective, constructive contribution to putting an end to the cycle of violence and counter-violence that has engulfed our region and other regions of the world. While we fully appreciate that Israel's motives in strongly opposing such international efforts, which would expose its pretexts and unmask its aggressive, expansionist intentions, we fail to see the logic of the United States Administration's opposition to such joint international efforts, while it gives top priority in its foreign policy to combating terrorism.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“Was it possible for the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the destruction of whole towns and villages in the south, the eviction of its inhabitants, the shelling of Beirut with thousands of tons of American-made bombs for 90 consecutive days - was it possible for all this to take place without any reaction? Why should the Palestinians continue to be deprived of the right to return to their homes and properties, while Israel impudently insists that certain countries should allow Jews to emigrate to Israel? Such questions will continue to be asked until the world at large comes to realize who is the true terrorist, who is going unpunished, who is the victim and who deserves all possible support and solidarity.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“History has taught us that national resistance to invaders and occupiers vanquishes the vociferous clamor of colonialists, occupiers and their lackeys and will for ever respond to the call of liberation and independence. We, the Arabs, whether we live in our motherland or in the countries of expatriation, are not to be intimidated by the systematic racist campaigns aimed at branding us with terrorism. Such hostile campaigns, contrary to the wishes of their perpetrators, are bound to alert world pubic opinion to the hoax and raise certain logical questions, why did this terrorism take place? What are its motives?”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“This reality cannot be altered by distortion of facts and concepts by a mass media machine operated by Zionist-imperialists which is intent on misleading world public opinion on an unprecedented scale. Israel's objective behind these campaigns and calumnies is not to combat terrorism, which we, together with the entire world, condemn, but rather to try to justify the State terrorism practiced by itself and by the United States of America against the Arabs and delude the Governments and peoples of the world into believing that the struggle of the Arabs to liberate their occupied territories and regain their usurped rights is a reprehensible act of terrorism. We are firmly convinced that such attempts are doomed to failure sooner or later.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“Is it reasonable to claim that God discriminates between the human beings created by Him and exalts one people at the expense of another? Is it reasonable that God should will the existence of a people whose task it is to attain for another people whatever the latter desires? Israel, which has made millions of Arabs homeless and driven them from their homeland, Palestine, carries out racist, terrorist practices against the Arab population languishing under Israeli occupation in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights and southern Lebanon. Hence, Israel should be the last country in the world to accuse others of terrorism. Israel is the mother source and the root cause of terrorism in our region.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“Thus it has put its military arsenals and the Federal Treasury at Israel's disposal. The affirmation of this blind bias has not been linked by any means to the statements and deeds of united States officials, which have been so numerous that there is no room to ;ite them in detail here. It has also been manifested in the emergence of American groups which vie with the Zionist lobby itself in propagating racist hysteria against the Arabs, whom they accuse of being a nation of terrorists. Such groups act on the theory that God created the United States of America to protect and defend Israel. In their book, opposition to Israel is defiance of God's will, and support for Israeli animosity against the Arabs is obeying God's bidding.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“That invasion was planned in the capitals of the colonial Powers and since 1948 has been and still is carried out by world Zionism in stages, with the continuing and escalating support of the colonial Powers and world imperialism, especially the United States of America. Relations between Israel and the United States of America have in recent years reached the level of strategic alliance, not only in the regional bat also in the international context. That is evident from Israel's participation in the strategic Defense Initiative - also known as "Star wars". Despite our earnest desire over the years that the Arab-Israeli conflict should not spread beyond the regional context, the United States of America has systematically insisted on being a party to the conflict, owing to its blind bias in favor of Israel.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“World peace, however, can be achieved only by liquidating the regional strongholds of imperialism, racism and neo-colonialism, because those strongholds, those vestiges of imperialism are the main source of finance which feeds the military machine of those Powers, and propels them towards strategic superiority in the international arena, as a sure means of safeguarding their interests in those areas of the world. Because of its economic and strategic importance, our Arab region is still the ideal strategic position, the one most coveted by the forces of imperialism. Those forces have been aided and abetted by the settler-colonialist invasion with which they have allied themselves in our region.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“The countries of the third world which in the past paid a heavy price in blood and sweat in their long and arduous confrontations with the forces of old colonialism are today still paying a heavy price, one way or another, in their current confrontations with world imperialism and neo-colonialism. That is a well-established fact and I need not dwell on it. Our international Organization must pay attention to this confrontation with the forces of world imperialism and neo-colonialism and assign to it a higher priority, like that given to the question of decolonization. The cause of peace in the world is indivisible. Peace has always been and continues to be the dream of mankind.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“Although we in no way belittle the great significance of those two international achievements, it still should not be forgotten that the number of victims of wars and acts of aggression backed by world imperialism during the past 40 years - beginning with the Korean war and continuing through Viet Nam, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America - has not been fewer than the number of those who fell in the Second World War. Moreover, we should not disregard the fact that the United Nations has been unable to reach appropriate and just solutions to many serious crises in the world - not to speak of the financial and political pressures to which this international Organization has been subjected of late, with the aim of diminishing its role and reducing its effectiveness.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“It was abundantly clear that the countries of the world had two major motives in commemorating the fortieth anniversary: The first was the fact that 40 years had passed since the end of the Second World War without a third world war. The second was that the United Nations has continued to exist, as the only international organization to which the countries of the world may resort in order to lodge their complaints and solve their problems.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“Summarizing our general impressions of that important event, we could conclude that no representative of any country of the world, large or small, strong or weak, was able to paint a reassuring or optimistic picture of mankind's future in the shadow of an escalating nuclear-arms race on earth. And what would the situation be if such a race were to spread beyond the earth and spill over into outer space? Furthermore, none of the representatives of the countries of the world, rich or poor, advanced or developing, was able to speak with confidence about the future of their countries' national economies, as a result of the continuing crises in, and unpredictable fluctuations of, the world economy.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“This time last year we in this Hall witnessed an important event - not merely the commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, but also the exceptional opportunity afforded to leaders and representatives of the Governments of the entire world to review the achievements of our international Organization and to assess its failures since its inception. It also afforded an opportunity to analyze and discuss the aspirations and concerns of the countries of the world with regard to the major issues and crises which the Organization has so far been unable to solve.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“Jaime de Pinies, whose efficiency and wisdom contributed greatly to the success of the fortieth session of the General Assembly. I am also duty bound to express our deep appreciation to the Secretary-General, Mr. Javier Perez de Cuellar, for the strenuous efforts he has been making to enhance the role of the United Nations and to reaffirm adherence to its Charter and principles in the conduct of international relations - and all this for the benefit of mankind and the cause of freedom and world peace. We are very happy that he has resumed his duties following his recovery, and we wish him the best of health.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)
“On behalf of the delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic and on my own behalf, I am pleased at the outset of this statement to extend to Ambassador Choudhury our sincere congratulations on his election to the presidency of the forty-first session of the General Assembly. His election to this distinguished post is a source of deep satisfaction to us, since he represents a friendly country with which Syria has ancient, historical ties. Moreover, both our countries are members of the Conference of the Islamic Organization and the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries. We are confident that his diplomatic experience and political skills will contribute to the success of our work and place the General Assembly on the road to the attainment of its goals. We also take this opportunity to express our appreciation to Mr.”
1986-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 41 (1986)