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KHADDAM

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first: 1971-09-24
most recent: 1983-09-24
sittings or episodes: 11
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“Israel expressed this determination by provocative declarations that it would not withdraw from the occupied Arab territories, especially not from the Golan Heights. On the contrary, Israel considered the Golan Heights as part of Israel and by so doing tried to restore the situation to what it was before the October war, and to abort all the valuable political results which the Arabs had achieved in the elan with which they set themselves to defend their rights and to liberate their territories. Israel has resumed its delusion of invincibility; apparently the war held no lesson for it. The Arabs, who rejected the set-back of 1967, refuse to relinquish their achievements of the October war.”
1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)
“Yet did this occupation prevent Syria and Egypt from defending their, rights in the October war? The Israelis well remember what the Arabs achieved during that war, and what they might have achieved but for the airlifts and shipments by sea which submerged Israel with armaments, equipment and personnel to an unprecedented extent. 123. On 22 October 1973 the Security Council adopted resolution 338 (1973) which my country accepted on 24 October 1973 by a telegram which I sent iO the Secretary-General, declaring that we understood the decision to mean complete Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories and full safeguard of the national fights of the Palestinian people. In the period which, followed the cease-fire, however, we quickly came to realize that Israel was determined to persist in its aggression.”
1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)
“This comes from their superiority complex and the intense selfishness which mark all their thoughts and behavior. They tell us that geographic borders are secure borders, in complete disregard of the fact that this is an age of scientific advancement; particularly in armaments, and that technology has eliminated the immunity of terrain. In any case, the international community is entitled to ask why secure borders are demanded for a few Israeli villages white they are denied to millions of the Arab indigenous population. Does not the idea of unilaterally secure borders carry with it implications of racial discrimination? The Israelis have occupied the Golan Heights, announcing that they will not withdraw, using the "secure border" pretext again in proclaiming their intentions with respect to the West Bank, Jerusalem, and Sharm El-Sheikh.”
1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)
“But a just peace is impossible to achieve unless it is based on the principles of the Charter, which require complete withdrawal from all the occupied Arab territories and full recognition of the national rights of the Palestinian people, including the right to return to their homeland, therein to exercise the right of self-determination. 121. The Arabs have spared no effort and have lost no opportunity to induce the members of the international Organization to take effective measures to bring pressure on Israel to honor the Charter and the resolutions of the United Nations and to adhere strictly to their implementation. All such efforts have met with Israeli rejection on the ground that Israel needed "secure borders". 122. The Israelis mock people's intelligence when they use such childish pretexts.”
1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)
“Israel, in its hostility to the Arabs, went so far as to wage war against Egypt in 1956; this was followed by continued territorial expansion up to the time of the June 1967 war, when Israel proceeded to occupy territories belonging to three Arab States Members of the United Nations, to disperse additional hundreds of thousands, to change the features of Arab towns, to set up scores of colonial to incarcerate thousands of citizens, and to practice Nazi methods of tyranny and oppression. Despite all this, the Arabs have always adhered to the emblem of peace based upon justice.”
1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)
“119. A simple comparison between the area under Israeli control in 1948 and the area under its control today and a quick review of the history of Israel, which shows that it has refused to adhere to any international resolution whatsoever, reveal the nature of Israel and the kind of "peace" it seeks. 120. The establishment of this entity was accompanied by the dispersion of the Palestinian people ever since 1948. The Arabs of Palestine have since been living under the worst of economic and social conditions. Israel has persistently rejected the United Nations resolutions requiring that the Palestinians be permitted to return to their homeland and to exercise their right of self-determination; Israel has intensified oppression and injustice and has repeatedly perpetrated raids on refugee camps.”
1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)
“It is not difficult to grasp the nature of this entity, for it was founded on the basis of exploiting religion for racist and expansionist purposes in an era when peoples reject such reactionary forms of national structure. 118. This racist entity was admitted to the United Nations in 1949 by virtue of General Assembly resolution 273 (III) of 11 May 1949, which made the membership of Israel conditional on the implementation of the United Nations resolutions relative to territories and to the return of the refugees especially General Assembly resolution 194 (III), paragraph 11 in particular, a paragraph which provides for the return of the Arab refugees to their homes. The Foreign Minister of Israel undertook then, on behalf of the Zionist authorities, to respect the relevant United Nations resolutions and to abide by those conditions.”
1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)
“The Arabs, in order to defend their legitimate rights, were compelled to fight for their national existence and for the liberation of their own territories. 117. The tragedy that besets the region began after the First World War, when British colonialism undertook to facilitate Jewish emigration in accordance with a colonialist Zionist plan. The tragedy crystallized in the establishment of the racist entity of Israel, which has received backing and support from imperialist and colonialist States and from international Zionism, with a view to consolidating a racist entity in the very heart of the Arab homeland, constituting a factor of continual blood-letting. This entity was created to prevent the Arabs from freeing themselves from economic and political colonialism and to obstruct their national unity.”
1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)
“The strategic position of the Middle East as a bridge between three continents, the Arab history with its civilization and culture that have been established in that area, its tremendous wealth in raw materials, its surplus of exports and the impact of all these factors on the international economic and monetary order are all realities which make it necessary to stop and reflect on the Middle East question and to approach it with the utmost care. 116. The October war of liberation demonstrated this, underscoring the sensitivity of the region in relation to international peace and security and the international economy. The danger of possible military confrontation between the two great Powers was then clear and present, and the crises to which the world economy was exposed as a result of the war that was imposed on the Arabs were acute.”
1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)
“Moreover, one aggression after another is committed against the militant Cambodian people, which has mustered all its strength, under the leadership of the Royal Government of National Union, headed by Prince Sihanouk, to confront the agents of imperialism who are engaged in a desperate last-ditch fight. 115. Furthermore, it is impossible to speak of international detente and of respect for the Charter and for the right of peoples to self-determination in isolation from the events in the Middle East, a region which so many factors combine to make one of the most important in the world.”
1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)
“The dialog which is taking place in Europe, the disappearance of the hotbed of the German conflict, and the process of peace in the Indian subcontinent are all positive signs of the evolution of international religions towards a better world. 114. Despite all these welcome trends, however, international peace is still threatened by many hotbeds of tension and danger, in defiance of the Charter of the United Nations and the will of peoples for liberation, independence and unity. The critical situation in Viet Nam persists; the unpatriotic regime in South Viet Nam constantly violates the Paris agreements; and barriers are set in the path of the Korean people, preventing it from achieving its national unity.”
1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)
“In the vanguard stands Guinea-Bissau, which has gained its independence through its heroic struggle;, and the people of Mozambique are about to attain independence, thanks to the blood shed by its sons. We salute the courageous policy of the Government of Portugal, which has come to understand the real interests of the Portuguese people and has Abandoned its colonial policy, thus turning a new page in its co-operation with the international community after a long period of boycott by this community. We are confident that the peoples of Namibia, Angola, Zimbabwe and South Africa will obtain their independence and will do away with the remnants of racist and colonialist regimes which have been exploiting their homelands and their resources. 113.”
1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)
“To him and his friendly country, our best wishes. 110. May we also congratulate the States of Bangladesh, Guinea-Bissau and Grenada on their admission to our Organization. Their role in the bringing about of justice and peace will be, we are sure, a very prominent one. 111. We must ever bear in mind that the objectives for which the United Nations was created still fall short of complete realization. There is no doubt, however, that international relations have gone a long way towards international detente, thanks to the dialog established in all fields between the two greatest Powers. 112. Moreover, a number of peoples have taken a great step forward in their continuing struggle to achieve liberation and independence, albeit at the cost of tremendous human and material sacrifices.”
1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)
“Mr. President, permit me at the outset to address to you my most sincere congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of this session of the General Assembly. Your election not only is a tribute to the militant sister-country of Algeria but also attests to the general appreciation of your personal talents and your constant efforts to support the movements of national liberation by backing them with effective means and by moving to a successful confrontation with imperialism and Zionism. We are confident that under your presidency this session will be one of the most important and most effective. You have our most sincere wishes for success. 109. We also wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to Mr. Benites, President of the last session, for his efforts which yielded such good results.”
1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)
“We are certain that liberation of Arab earth from the Zionist imperialist aggression is a part of the universal struggle to create a world built on equality, justice and freedom, and that the realization of our goal of liberation enhances the aims of the United Nations and its lofty objectives.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“The position of the Syrian Arab Republic with respect to the Palestine problem and the imperialist Zionist aggression against our territories is a firm stand upon principle, consistent with the Charter of this Organization and with all international law and the rules of justice and right. There are two basic conditions for the establishment of peace in the Middle East: firstly, recognition of the rights of the Palestinian people to their lands and homeland and their full right to self-determination; and, secondly, immediate, complete and unconditional withdrawal of Israeli forces from all occupied Arab territories. 77. Our determination to struggle for the liberation of all occupied Arab territories and the restoration of all the national rights of the Arab Palestinian people has never been stronger than it is today.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“The "secure boundaries" which Israel is trying to promote for itself are expanded, movable boundaries which it carves out by altering the demographic, economic and geographic features of occupied territories and by bringing in millions of settlers from all quarters of the globe for conversion of the occupied territories into a Jewish land and preparatory to occupation of new territory at the expense of the Arabs. 75. Following a debate held in the Executive Committee of the Jewish Agency three days before the creation of Israel was announced, Ben-Gurion said: "Take, for instance, the American Declaration of Independence. They did not mention in it specific boundaries, and we are not obliged to mention boundaries for the area of Israel." That shows the intentions of Israel; those are its aims. 76.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“In our day is there in truth such a thing as secure geographic boundaries? Technological advance and the new developments in weapons — of which Israel possesses the most advanced types — have erased boundaries, and there remain no geographical barriers on land or water of any significant effect in the face of these weapons. There is not one nation in the world, therefore, that can claim for itself secure geographical boundaries. 74. True security is that which is built upon justice, on remedying any sense of injustice entertained by neighbouring countries, on respect for law and adherence to the principles of the Charter. This kind of security is naturally inconsistent with the expansionist goals of Israel.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“Israel sees all these as sine qua non premises on the basis of which any negotiations must start, though it does not consider them prior conditions. The very fact of continuous Israeli occupation during a period of over six years, in itself, constitutes a condition which hangs heavily over us, and in the shade of which equal negotiations between, the occupier and the victim of occupation cannot take place. Any negotiations proceeding in such circumstances can lead only to submission and acceptance of the occupier's terms. This is what Israel and the forces behind her actually desire and are working toward. 73. As for the idea of "secure boundaries", as Israel calls them, this is a mere ruse. Israel is contemptuous of the intelligence of us all when it justifies its expansionist greed by terming it an effort to obtain secure boundaries.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“The authorities of Tel Aviv try to .ad world public opinion by promoting the idea of negotiations and secure boundaries. The world, however, saw the spuriousness of the Israeli position when Israel announced that it would not accept withdrawal from the Golan Heights or the Gaza Strip or Old Jerusalem or Sharm el Sheikh or the areas of Sinai, behind a line drawn from Sharm el Sheikh to Rafah; that the West Bank, though to be restored in a large part to the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Jordan according to the Israeli plan, should remain open to the citizens of Israel, who should enjoy the right to own land and work there, and that Israel would retain a number of army sites along the length of the Jordan river.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“We call upon the General Assembly, in defence of the international Organization's prestige and its very existence and out of respect for the principles of right and justice, to approve a resolution divesting Israel of membership and boycotting it diplomatically, economically, militarily, culturally, and in sea, air and land communications; demanding the immediate, unconditional withdrawal of Israeli forces from all Arab territories occupied since June 1967, and that all measures taken by Israel in those territories to alter their demographic and geographic features be considered void, with non-recognition of the consequences of those measures; further, that it recognize the right of the Palestinian Arab people to the restoration of all its national rights in its homeland. 72.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“With this stand, Israel has put itself outside the pale of United Nations membership from a legal aspect, and there is no doubt that its repeated violations of the Organization's Charter have made it the more justifiable that Israel should have its membership stripped from it. We ask ourselves how the Organization can protect its existence from the fate encountered by the. League of Nations if it does not cast out from its ranks any Member that is insubordinate to its constitution; that tramples on its prestige, and announces, with the tongue of responsible authority, that morally, politically and legally it is a bankrupt Organization. 71.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“We call upon the General Assembly to adopt a resolution with such restraining provisions as will induce Israel to end its aggression, in accord with the provisions of the Charter. We remind the General Assembly, in this context, that Israel is the unique Member which has been received conditionally into the .United Nations. The General Assembly's resolution 273 (III) of 11 May 1949 further recalls the two resolutions concerning Palestine and- repatriation of the Palestinian refugees [resolutions 181 (II) and 194 (III)]. Israel has continued to violate those resolutions from the day of its entry into the Organization up to this very day. 70.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“I wish in this connexion to hail the dynamic, progressive step proclaimed at the 2140th meeting by the President of the Republic of Zaire, General Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga, before the Assembly and the world. This is the most genuine expression of deep respect for the principles of the Charter of our Organization. It is an affirmation of the commitment of our peoples to support the struggle for freedom, justice and self-determination, and to act together in solidarity and determination against injustice. 69. We welcome the spirit of courage and justice shown by all the States which, perceiving the aggressive expansionist nature of Israel, have severed relations with it.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“The Organization of African Unity \OAU\ comprehended this fact thoroughly and acted accordingly when in May 1973 it adopted a resolution stating that the attitude of Israel might lead OAU member States to take, at the African level, individually or collectively, political and economic measures against it, in conformity with the principles contained in the OAU and United Nations Charters. Further, the Fourth Conference of non-aligned nations held in Algiers in September 1973 called upon member States to take steps to boycott Israel diplomatically, economically, militarily and culturally, as well as in the field of sea and air transport. 68.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“The situation in the Middle East, menacing the peace and security of every nation, requires from the General Assembly that it adopt such resolutions as will exert real restraining pressure on Israel, in conformity with the provisions of Chapter VII of the Organization's Charter. 66. The passage of six years since the Israeli aggression and occupation of the territories of three Arab nations is a clear indication that the leaders of Israel are not influenced a hair's breadth by the counsels and recommendations thus far embodied in the General Assembly resolutions, and that there is no alternative but to give such resolutions a new content. 67.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“The United States has impaired the competence of the Security Council by abusing the right of veto, which it has exercised to encourage Israeli aggression and the consolidation of the Israeli occupation of Arab lands, as reinforcement to American imperialist interests in the Middle East. It was natural that such conduct on the part of the United States should lead to the phenomenon of shifting the centre of gravity of United Nations activities and effectiveness from the Security Council to the General Assembly. 65. The General Assembly, therefore, must bear its responsibilities under the Charter, it must make specific practical recommendations in the face of a situation which threatens international peace and security.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“Israeli authorities have elevated terror to the level of the State's official policy in pursuance of the principle that the end justifies the means, with no regard to international law and without respect for the sovereignty of other nations. It is odd that such conduct by Israel, whereby it arrogates to itself the right to infringe the sovereignty of nations, has not ^aroused the foreign States that have suffered from it to take effectual counter-measures. Consequently, we find Golda Meir and Dayan announcing without trepidation that Israel will continue on its course, whatever the results. 63. We must ask what the United Nations should do in the face of this situation, which constitutes a grave challenge to the international Organization and to the international and human community as a whole. 64.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“In its resolution 337 (1973) the Security Council condemned this aggression, as did the International Civil Aviation Organization. c 61. On 13 September 1973,64 Israeli war planes of American manufacture undertook the most serious operation of violation of Syrian air space in a: attempt to strike at civilian targets. They were only prevented from achieving their objective by the opposition of our fighting planes. It is highly ironical that the leaders of Israel claim their planes were on routine patrol when our planes attacked them. Israeli arrogance goes as far as considering that Israeli fighter planes flying at a depth of a hundred kilometres within Syrian skies to be performing merely a routine flight. 62.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“It was a real Mafia operation, yet it was perpetrated not by outlaw gangs but by the authorities of a Member State of the United Nations. 59. Within this period Israel committed a series of deliberate murders of Arab individuals in Paris and Rome on the pretext that they supported the Palestinian cause or that they were suspected of supporting this cause. I think we all remember the murder of the Moroccan citizen Bouchiki in Oslo by Israeli intelligence staff and the ensuing expulsion of one of the members of the Israeli mission in Norway. 60. On 5 August 1973 Israeli armoured planes abducted an Iraqi civil aircraft flying in Beirut skies to Lydda airport, endangering the lives of 76 passengers and gravely violating Lebanese sovereignty and the safety of international civil aviation.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“On 8 January 1973 Israeli planes undertook a brutal assault upon civilian targets in the Syrian Arab Republic, resulting in the slaughter of hundreds of civilians, old people, women and children. On 21 February 1973 Israeli forces raided the refugee camps in A1 Baddawi and A1 Barid in north Lebanon, killing a great number of women, old men and children. On 22 February this year Israeli armoured planes shot down a Libyan civil aircraft that had lost its way over Sinai. This resulted in the death of 108 innocent passengers. During the night of 9-10 April 1973 Israeli commando forces raided the city of Beirut. They murdered three Palestinian leaders in their sleeping quarters and slew a number of Palestinian refugees and Lebanese civilians.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“It has been demonstrated in recent years that Israel, prospering through illegality, and adopting violence, terror, war and occupation to serve the objectives of its settler colonialism, has no regard whatsoever for the resolutions of the United Nations, no respect for any international or human or moral law. Israel's leaders have gone so far as to consider the resolutions taken by the United Nations as a sign of the bankruptcy of the Organization, morally, politically and legally. 58. This Israeli arrogance and contempt for international law and custom has led Israel to embark on hideous practices that arouse the aversion and condemnation of the entire world.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“Men everywhere have commenced to understand that their national wealth is one of the elements of their inherent strength and must play a role in protecting their independence and the integrity of their lands. 56. Consequently, the situation in the Middle East calls for prompt, effective treatment by the United Nations and its Members. It requires that every effort be put forth to keep the Israeli aggressor from reaping the fruits of aggression. Condoning aggression by allowing the fait accompli to prosper threatens a continual erosion of the prestige of the United Nations and encourages aggression and expansion in every place upon the earth. 57.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“In addition to this area being the most important route of communications by land, sea and air between three continents, it has the greatest known reserves of petroleum in the world — oil constituting the main prop of life with respect to any advance in civilization during our era. 55. Signs and statistics indicate that the wheel of life in this world, and particularly in the advanced industrial nations, will for a long time and increasingly be dependent on. sources of energy in the Middle East. Accordingly, a view of the Middle East crisis from this perspective should prompt nations to intensify their efforts to eliminate the focuses of explosion in the region and to put an end to the reckless playing by Zion with the destinies of its peoples.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“We place again before this international Organization the case of Israeli aggression because we are convinced that the United Nations, despite its shortcomings, is capable of playing a useful role in opposing imperialism, and in eliminating the consequences of aggression and protecting world peace. 53. In a world of such intertwined interests, a world of common destiny, no responsible Government can be indifferent when its land and the peace of its people are threatened with destruction. 54. The Middle East crisis does not threaten international peace and security alone; it is a menace also to the economic security of nations.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“The unlimited support offered by the United States of America to the Israeli aggressor has enabled Israel to defy the whole world and to deride the United Nations, its resolutions and its Charter. 50. But peace-loving nations have come to perceive the dangers inherent in the continuance of this menacing situation, with the result that American imperialism and its Zionist creature are now lined up on one side facing all other nations on the other. 51. The isolation of Israel and American imperialism in the United Nations and elsewhere in the international sphere has become one of the distinctive features of the present era in international relations. It reflects the attitude of rejection which the international community takes against aggression and the protectors of aggression. 52.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“The origins of the question, its tragedies and dimensions are known to everyone. Its ugly traces leap to the eye in the Israeli occupation of the land of Palestine in 1948, which has uprooted its inhabitants and deprived them of all their national and human rights. These ugly traces were further manifested in the expanded Israeli occupation of June 1967, which was an extension of settler colonialism and an imperialist conspiracy against the Arab nation. 49. More than six years have passed since the Israeli occupation of territories of three Arab countries that are Members of the United Nations, and the imperialist forces are still striving hard to consolidate this occupation by the consecration of this aggressive fait accompli.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“We wish them the early attainment of their aims. 46. In this connexion let me welcome the rise of that valiant country Guinea-Bissau to the status of independence through the struggle of its sons assisted by the great African continent and justice-loving peoples. It is high time that the Portuguese regime reviewed its reactionary policy and conceded the right of Mozambique and Angola to self-determination and independence. The admission of Guinea-Bissau — soon, we hope — to the ranks of the Organization's membership will be a landmark in the universal struggle for freedom and justice. 47. World opinion endorses the fact that the Middle East problem now poses the greatest thereat to international peace and security. It is the one problem that bears within itself the seeds of a world war. 48.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“We therefore deplore the repeated violations of the provisions of the Agreement on the part of the imperialists and their agents, and we hope that the heroic Viet-Namese will achieve complete success in their struggle to restore the social and economic structure of their country. 44. We emphatically support the struggle of the national liberation movements in Africa, America and Asia. We strongly condemn the role of the racist minority in Rhodesia and in South Africa and the imperialist manoeuvres calculated to overthrow national governments in these countries. 45. We warmly welcome the struggle of movements for national liberation bearing arms in the four quarters of Africa against the forces of racial discrimination and colonialist exploitation, and we offer them our support and encouragement.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“We further demand the solution of the problem of Korea through the creation of appropriate conditions to hasten the union of Korea as an independent, peaceful nation. .We demand the withdrawal of all foreign forces from the southern Korean territories and the dissolution of I the so-called United Nations Commission for the Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea. We believe that this session of the General Assembly of the United Nations should work towards uniting, not consecrating, the division of Korea. 43. We welcome the Agreement on the restoration of peace in Viet-Nam.' We believe that the safeguarding of peace in this area is absolutely necessary for the carrying out in good faith of all the clauses of this Agreement.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“Faithful in its support of the principles of the freedom of peoples and their right to self-determination without foreign interference, and their right to territorial integrity, regional unity and permanent sovereignty over natural resources: faithful in its struggle against colonialism, imperialist control and exploitation, against discrimination on the basis of colour, race or creed; faithful to the Charter of the United Nations, the Syrian Arab Republic demands a cessation of imperialist interference and aggression against the people of Cambodia and considers that the five points of the Government of National Union are a practical and just basis for the solution of the Cambodian problem. 42.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“In those circumstances detente would be tantamount to extinguishing the focuses of dispute in a certain region of the world while feeding the elements of conflict in some other areas. 39. In this connexion it is disappointing to see the United States of America bent on exploiting the international climate of relaxation in order to consolidate its interests at the expense of the interests of other peoples and sustaining aggression in all areas of the third world, especially in the Middle East. 40. The state of international security today is far from permitting the majority of nations to achieve their aspirations for freedom, independence, peace, and progress. Imperialist aggression continues in important areas of Asia, Africa and Latin America. 41.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“Aiming at eliminating the dangers of confrontation between the two great Powers and abating the tension in Europe, those developments nevertheless will be of limited effect and uncertain results so long as their benefits do not extend to all parts of the world, eradicating the oppressive conditions still prevalent in the third world, such as colonialism, exploitation, racism, occupation and aggression at the hands of imperialism and foreign control. 38. International concord will remain an elaborate fiction if it means the monopoly of the big decisions ruling our destiny in the hands of a few and the consolidation of unjust conditions to which the peoples of the developing world are subjected, or if it is to be achieved at the expense of peoples and their rights to freedom, progress and self- determination.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“The relationship between the Conference of non- aligned countries and the United Nations arises not only from the fact that the non-aligned nations form half the membership of the international Organization, but also from the determination of the non-aligned countries to strengthen the role of the United Nations and within its framework to take upon themselves the work of realizing its goals and the objectives of the Charter in such way as to benefit all mankind. 37. In our review of the international situation, special emphasis should, of course, be given to the new developments that have had an important impact on international relations.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“The Algiers Conference was a gathering that took a global view, at which it was pledged anew to realize the basic aims of the non-alignment movement — those universal goals conceiving world peace as a unit indivisible, centred on eliminating tension everywhere, increasing international co-operation, developing the innate capacities of developing countries, ending privation, backwardness, and unequal relations between peoples. 35. We hope the General Assembly of the United Nations will support the principal demands made in the declarations and resolutions of the Algiers Conference, because they are all fully compatible with the United Nations Charter. 36.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“If the non-alignment movement has been described in the past as an expression of world conscience, the Fourth Conference revealed that that movement is proceeding with a firm pace towards achieving freedom in the world. That Conference, with the clarity of vision which characterized its work, was able to adjust to the international changes, affirming and developing their positive aspects without swerving from the principles on which the non-alignment movement rests. 34.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“The declarations and resolutions of that Conference [see A/9330] incarnated the drive of the non-aligned nations towards self-fulfilment and the assertion of their identity, and to a reaffirmation of the principles of non-alignment, proven to be universal principles aiming at achieving justice, equality, coexistence and peace among nations. 32. The basic significance of that Conference lay in the fact that it embodied the determination of over half the inhabitants of the world to be freed from unequal relations, to establish instead among nations a democratic relationship both in politics and economics, to eradicate colonialism in all its forms and to eliminate hegemony, foreign occupation, backwardness and deprivation. 33.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“In this connexion, we wish to formulate the hope that the affiliation of the German Federal Republic with the Organization will usher in a greater understanding on its part of the problems of the third world, and particularly those of the Middle East. 30. The convening of the twenty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly comes on the heels of an event which stirred world-wide interest: the Fourth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries held at Algiers from 5 to 9 September 1973, the greatest summit meeting human society has witnessed in the last decade. 31.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“28. Mr. President, it gives me the greatest pleasure to offer you, on my behalf and in the name of the delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic, our warm congratulations on your election as President of the twenty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. The fact that you were chosen for this high office is a genuine expression of the appreciation and esteem in which the international community holds your country and people. 29. I am happy to welcome the new Members, the Democratic Republic of Germany, the German Federal Republic and the Bahamas. With their entry into the United Nations the principle of universality essential to the world Organization, which since the inception of the United Nations we have actively supported and have constantly striven to achieve, has been greatly enhanced.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“Those who persist in aggression, in flouting international laws and conventions and in violating human rights would do well to remember that history proves that right will ultimately be vindicated and that the will of peoples is invincible.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)