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first: 1988-09-24
most recent: 1990-09-24
sittings or episodes: 2
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“Today's events demand that we should reassess the beliefs underlying those principles and the determination with which each of us pursues them and strives to ensure that they are respected. The time had come to shoulder our common responsibility in solidarity. We must refuse to be part of the conspiracy of silence and commit ourselves to struggle to protect mankind and its environment. Only thus shall we have contributed to ensuring a better future for all person and for all of mankind.”
1990-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 45 (1990)
“Nothing lasting has ever been achieved or can be built on the basis of mistrust or in an atmosphere of violence. Genuine security will be established not through deterrence but through persuasion, and the only weapon for that purpose is dialogue, a dialogue based on the ideas and fundamental aspirations we hold in common a dialogue aimed at building trust among peoples and peace among individuals. While it is true that nations are motivated only by their own interests, nevertheless today those interests are increasingly blended into one common objective, that of defending the principles we have set for ourselves, mindful of the shared destiny of peoples and individuals.”
1990-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 45 (1990)
“The same experts also foresee famines and epidemics consequent on those atmospheric disruptions. For that reason, the international community must act resolutely to prevent those evils. Togo attaches crucial importance to environmental problems and has taken measures to protect its fauna and its natural heritage. An environmental code has been adopted, and the Government is enforcing it very strictly. Working together, we have unquestionably made progress in solving some of the great issues of international life, but in order to ensure that this progress is irreversible and leads to the emergence of a world purged of fear, violence and injustice, it is essential that we should constantly strengthen our commitment to the United Nations.”
1990-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 45 (1990)
“In this connection the intentions stated recently by the leaders of the seven most industrialized countries at Houston are particularly encouraging, and we hope that they will soon be translated into action. The grave threats to mankind inherent in the accumulation of weapons of all kinds and in the continued existence of certain hotbeds of tension are compounded by the crucial problem of the rapid deterioration of the environment. The deterioration of the ozone layer, deforestation, desertification, marine and river pollution and air pollution have particularly destructive effects the environment all share. Today climates are unstable, the earth is warming up, and specialists predict future disasters resulting from the melting of the ice-cap, which would cause catastrophic flooding in coastal regions.”
1990-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 45 (1990)
“There must also be international action to apply a bold strategy to external debt, placing stress in particular on debt deferral, reduction of interest rates, extension of repayment deadlines and the granting of assistance consisting substantially of grants or interest-free loans. The actions taken by certain donor countries to lighten the debt burden of the developing countries, particularly African countries, are praiseworthy and should be encouraged. The least developed countries require increased attention and assistance, in keeping with the Programme of Action adopted by the Second United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, hold at Paris at the beginning of this month.”
1990-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 45 (1990)
“It is vital for the international community as a whole to implement the recommendations of the last United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries. It must strive to create an open and fair trading system, to support the least developed countries' efforts for diversification and economic modernisation and to increase substantially the flows of financing to those countries. We must urgently resume the North-South dialogue in a joint effort to find solutions to our common problems, particularly the decline of commodity prices, since a fair return for these products is indispensable for the survival of our economies. In this connection, I appeal to all to redouble their efforts to endow the Common Fund for commodities with the means it needs in order to operate effectively.”
1990-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 45 (1990)
“It is important to note here the particularly critical situation of African countries which are hit even harder than others by the imbalances of the international economic system. In order to escape from this state of profound crisis, the African countries have courageously undertaken reforms designed to establish the political and social conditions required for renewed economic growth through the use, among other things, of structural-adjustment programmes. However, their potential for success is often negated by the collapse of commodity prices and hence of export earnings, and also, most particularly, by the reduction in real terms of external financial inputs and the increasing burden of debt service.”
1990-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 45 (1990)
“In this connection, we make a solemn appeal to all parties concerned to agree to the holding of an international conference under United Nations auspices. The stability of the world depends not only on the improvement of international political relations. It now depends even more on a fairer sharing of economic prosperity. The burden of the economic crisis by which the world has been beset for two decades is not borne equally by the wealthy and the poor countries. The confusion and disarray created by an anachronistic international economic system based, among other things, on rules that work to the exclusive advantage of the developed countries, are genuine obstacles to economic growth development in the developing countries.”
1990-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 45 (1990)
“This confirms the importance my Government attaches to the reunification of the two Koreas as a factor to promote stability in Asia and strengthen international peace and security. For that reason, my Government ardently hopes that the free-circulation experiment going on now between the two Koreas will be continued and will herald a genuine thawing in the relations between the two States. The Organisation has made tremendous efforts to end the conflict which has torn Lebanon apart for two decades. Restoration of peace to that country will require first and foremost the departure of all foreign forces, whoso presence tends to promote the state of war. In the occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank the intransigent positions of the parties concerned continues to maintain a permanent atmosphere of violence.”
1990-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 45 (1990)
“Recent developments on this issue clearly indicate a heightened awareness of the need to end a conflict which has brought great suffering to the Cambodian people, a people which should now be able legitimately to exorcise its right to self-determination. In Afghanistan, following the departure of foreign troops, the various parties will have to engage in negotiations in order to restore independence and unity to the Afghan people. The merger of the two Yemens and the upcoming unification of the two Germanys should impress on the conscience of the world the vital need to rectify the mistakes of history by enabling divided peoples to re-establish their cultural and political identity within a homogeneous State structure.”
1990-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 45 (1990)
“We call on all States in the region and outside it to spare no efforts to find a peaceful solution to the crisis. With regard to the foreseeable disastrous consequences of this crisis for the economies of our countries as a result of large increases in oil prices it is vital for the international community, including both States and financial institutions, to do their utmost to shield the least developed countries from new financial constraints which would frustrate their development efforts and inflict shocks with incalculable consequences on their societies. A lasting overall settlement of the Cambodian question is also an urgent task, whose accomplishment should be greatly facilitated by the improvement in East-West relations and the strengthening of confidence in the world Organisation.”
1990-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 45 (1990)
“The invasion and annexation of Kuwait by Iraq constitute an act of aggression which must be condemned, not only because it contravenes international law but above all because it could once again lend respectability to violence and force as means of settling international disputes. In adopting its resolutions on this subject, the Security Council has fully lived up to its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security and has genuinely striven to ensure scrupulous respect for international law. For that reason the Government of Togo fully endorses those resolutions and urges the Iraqi Government to withdraw its troops and to end the occupation and annexation of the sovereign State of Kuwait unconditionally.”
1990-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 45 (1990)
“That is why it is fitting to pay a particular tribute to the men and women who, by their courage, devotion and competence, made it possible for the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG) to carry out its difficult mission successfully. Togo considers it an honour to have taken part in that mission and thereby demonstrated that it subscribes completely to the noble values and objectives which guide our Organisation. The involvement of the United Nations in settling the crisis in Central America is, to a great extent, the explanation for the progress made in applying the peace plan drawn up by the leaders of the region. In the Gulf the international community is today confronted by serious breaches of the rules and principles on which the Charter is founded.”
1990-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 45 (1990)
“Togo acclaims the far-sightedness and sense of responsibility of the decision by the African National Congress (ANC) to suspend the armed struggle. It also urges President De Klerk to take this historic opportunity to create conditions favouring a wide-ranging dialogue among all elements of South African society with a view to demolishing the apartheid system quickly and creating a democratic, non-racial society. If such conditions are to obtain, they must necessarily be preceded by the freeing of all political detainees and by an end to the violence blacks are suffering on a daily basis. The accession of Namibia to independence and its admission to the United Nations were signs of the times showing once again that the United Nations had regained its prestige and effectiveness.”
1990-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 45 (1990)
“In this respect, the Kingdom of Morocco and the POLISARIO Front must continue to co-operate closely with the United Nations and the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) with a view to establishing an effective cease-fire and holding the self-determination referendum. The positive developments in the situation in South Africa are to some extent the result of the historic consensus reached by the international community at the sixteenth special session of the General Assembly, devoted to the subject of Apartheid and its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa. The Declaration adopted by that important session embodies the categorical and unanimous rejection of apartheid and highlights the urgency of eradicating it once and for all.”
1990-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 45 (1990)
“In Liberia, in the very heart of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOHAS), a tragedy which causes great concern to all is taking place. My country, for its part, has urged the belligerents to exercise the greatest possible restraint, and, in a moving appeal delivered on 23 August, called on then to agree to an early cease-fire, at the same tine proposing that a special summit of ECOHAS should be called with a view to promoting a peaceful and lasting settlement to this fratricidal conflict and bringing about reconciliation of all of that country's sons. The conflict in Western Sahara has been moving towards a fair and lasting settlement since both parties accepted the settlement plan put forward on 30 August 1988 by the Secretary-General.”
1990-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 45 (1990)
“As the President of Togo General Gnassingbe Eyadema so rightly noted in his speech of 20 June at the sixteenth Franco-African summit at La Baule, Frances "We must keep in mind that no one can go against the will of the people, who are the sole custodians of power and on whom it is not possible, without risking failure, to impose a political system which runs counter to their deepest aspirations. For if any political option is to be viable and potentially successful, it must be grounded in the realities of each society and be integrated into the normal historical evolution of each country". The end of the ideological confrontation between the great Powers does not signify by any means that peace has been achieved once and for all throughout the world. There are ,any hotbeds of tension still persisting everywhere.”
1990-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 45 (1990)
“This change must be organised and adapted to suit our needs and our real capabilities the legitimate guest for freedom and democracy has become urgent everywhere, but it should not jeopardise the social cohesion and national unity of our countries. It is up to each nation, within the contest of the internationally recognised requirements, to define the ways to ensure internal peace while participating in the effort to bring world peace. By this I mean that building societies which are more democratic and which better respect fundamental human rights and freedoms should start not from the simple copying of foreign models but front the historical and socio-cultural realities of each State that is to say the special genius of each people.”
1990-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 45 (1990)
“The continuing efforts of the two greatest Powers towards chemical and nuclear disarmament and the intensive negotiations within the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) to achieve a balanced reduction of conventional forces in Europe and to develop confidence-building measures are undoubtedly essential factors helping to consolidate international peace and security. Also of great significance are the recent efforts to transform the two main military alliances, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (HATO) and the Warsaw Pact, into instruments for dialogue and co-ordination today and for political co-operation tomorrow. The movements for freedom and democracy arising in our societies are clear signs of a general realisation that some development models and policies are bankrupt.”
1990-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 45 (1990)
“Likewise, we warmly welcome the Principality of Liechtenstein, whose admission to the United Nations enlarges the family circle and reinforces the universality of the Organization. The progressive improvement in East-West relations can be seen today as a determining factor in the effort to establish a new world equilibrium. It has made possible a successful conclusion of the efforts to achieve reunification of the two Germany, a historic example of the recognition of the right of peoples to self-determination. We pay a tribute to Germany, a country which has many ties of friendship and co-operation with my own, in the conviction that Germany must and will enhance the peace, stability and prosperity of the new Europe.”
1990-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 45 (1990)
“In guiding the work of the forty-fourth session and the special session of the General Assembly on drugs, on apartheid and on international economic co-operation, his predecessor, Major-General Joseph Garba of Nigeria, carried out his task effectively and usefully, thanks to his highly developed sense of tact, his energy and his commitment. My delegation wishes to honour him as he deserves, in keeping with his outstanding talents. We also wish to congratulate and thank the Secretary-General for the energetic way in which, with that calm, unshakeable confidence we so admire, he discharges his weighty responsibilities in the service of peace. Thanks to his determination and devotion, our Organisation has had some remarkable successes and has regained the prestige and effectiveness it needs for its mission.”
1990-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 45 (1990)
“Indeed, if we do not manage to prevent war and ease the suffering of the world's peoples, the technical achievements on which our century prides itself so much will be vain achievements, meaning that they are of no real use for our collective survival. Before I continue, I should like to offer the President my own congratulations and those of the Togolese delegation on the election to preside over the General Assembly at its forty-fifth session. His thorough knowledge of the issues with concern us and the constructive role his country plays in maintaining the peace both augur well for a successful outcome to our work.”
1990-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 45 (1990)
“In recent months the world has been stirred by uplifting events that give us grounds for believing that mankind has at last - and once and for all - entered a new era of detente and understanding. It seems that the coming together of East and Nest has ushered in a new order in which relations between nations will conform to a pattern of peace and co-operation. Nails have come down borders have been opened and peoples have been reunited and together are building a shared future. The entire community of peoples has good reason to welcome this decisive development. It must also accept the fact that the certainties born of recent events nay prove fragile and fleeting in the face of the dangers now mounting again and threatening the peace.”
1990-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 45 (1990)
“In the light of these developments, we must not stand idly by, but participate in useful activities to ensure that frontiers be no longer barriers between peoples but open doors through which they can pass to meet, join together and ensure that the weakness of certain countries, instead of being a pretext for shameful exploitation, becomes an opportunity for sharing and solidarity.”
1988-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 43 (1988)
“To spare our continent the torment of the irreversible deterioration of its environment, we call upon the International community, and especially the industrialized countries, to ensure that all necessary measures are taken to prevent the export of toxic wastes to our countries. This session coincides with the fortieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and we must therefore vigorously reaffirm our total commitment to the humanitarian values that are indispensable in containing mankind's destructive impulses and suicidal passions. The favourable developments that have taken place in regions long torn apart by hatred and violence reassure us of the usefulness of our Organization and its authority in the sphere of the management and settlement of international affairs.”
1988-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 43 (1988)
“In the face of this grave threat to African interests, the Heads of State of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) unanimously adopted last May a resolution firmly denouncing and condemning the scandal of toxic wastes and undertaking to take the measures necessary to prevent the dumping of these wastes on African soil. In that same spirit, the eleventh conference of Heads of State or Government of the Economic Community of West African States adopted a resolution by which it was decided to enact laws in all 16 member countries making it a crime for any person, group of persons, business or organization to participate in any act involving the stockpiling of nuclear or industrial wastes.”
1988-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 43 (1988)
“In fulfilment of their commitments, African States have undertaken major reforms to secure economic recovery and development, and it is therefore important that the international community to live up to its agreement to participate in implementing the Programme by providing Africa with all the assistance it needs. At a time when African leaders are tackling with courage and determination the economic and social recovery of their continent, it is especially revolting to see the various wicked attempts by some in the industrial and business circles of the North to turn Africa into a dumping ground lot nuclear and industrial wastes, thus gravely harming the health of our peoples and our environment. These operations are motivated by a cynical desire to exploit the current economic and financial difficulties of our countries.”
1988-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 43 (1988)
“By establishing an advisory group on financial flows for Africa the Secretary-General has acted upon his intention to give priority to that continent's economic problems and to seek ways and means to hasten implementation of the Programme of Action. In this connection, we must see to it that new financial flows are carefully channelled, at both the bilateral and the multilateral level. Therefore United Nations bodies concerned with development should have access to additional resources enabling them to participate actively in the implementation of the Programme of Action, among other things by devising and putting in place projects specifically designed for sub-Saharan Africa.”
1988-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 43 (1988)
“That interest is clear particularly from two initiatives taken by the General Assembly at its forty-second session - that is, on the one hand, the decision to establish an Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole of the Assembly as the most appropriate mechanism to prepare the review and the appraisal of the Programme of Action and, on the other hand, the request made to the Secretary-General to submit to the forty-third session of the Assembly concrete recommendations for a speedy and full implementation of that Programme. We must however note with regret that the results hoped for during the meeting of the Committee of the Whole have not been attained.”
1988-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 43 (1988)
“Hence, the international community must put into effect measures that can stabilize and fix the prices of raw materials at remunerative levels. It must also adopt a new international strategy for development based on greater justice and equity and providing for the harmonious growth of the world economy. That new strategy should envisage urgent and appropriate solutions to the questions of foreign debt and the constant decrease in the financial resources of the developing countries, in particular by a substantial alleviation of the debt, and even the cancellation of entire portions of it. In regard particularly to Africa, it is encouraging to note the increasing interest of our Organization in the implementation of the United Nations Programme of Action for African Economic Recovery and Development.”
1988-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 43 (1988)
“While the global figure for the debt of the ч developing countries has been constantly increasing - indeed today it amounts to more than $1 trillion - the controlled price index of the principal non-petroleum commodities exported by those countries has increased by an average of almost 5 per cent since 1980, and the reversal in the net transfer of resources caused them to lose more than $30 billion in 1986. The constant decrease in the available financial resources is a major obstacle to the third-world countries' efforts to ensure the recovery of their economies and development. We know that more than two thirds of those countries receive more than half of their export income from the sale of commodities.”
1988-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 43 (1988)
“Because of the lack of provisions for increasing the prices of raw materials or reducing the excessive debt burden our countries' economies are the greatest victims of the infernal process of increasing indebtedness the continuing deterioration in the terms of trade and the reverse transfer of capital. In those circumstances, the determinations of the developing countries to put into effect coherent economic and social policies comes up against external constraints linked to the iniquitous and imbalanced international economic system. The measures for structural adjustment, in their present form, should be reviewed in order to enable our States to keep their foreign commitments and continue internal development.”
1988-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 43 (1988)
“Nevertheless, we must hope that the new round of multilateral trade negotiations under way in Uruguay will open the path to a considerable reduction in and the gradual elimination of tariff and non-tariff barriers. It is true that the recovery of the world economy requires both concerted international action and the individual efforts of States. But it is even more true that the Draconian measures of structural adjustment imposed on the developing countries have a very high economic, social and political cost. They reduce the rate of development of those countries' economies.”
1988-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 43 (1988)
“The international economic situation, which has for almost two decades been in a state of general stagnation, remains disquieting. The uncertainty about world economic growth is even greater for the developing countries, and particularly for sub-Saharan Africa. Indeed, according to forecasts, real income of the countries of that region and the least-developed countries as a whole will increase by 2.5 per cent, and there will be no growth in per capita revenue, or even negative growth, during the period from 1987 to 1995. In addition to being contrary to the basic principles of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the protectionist measures taken by the developed countries are preventing the developing countries from participating fairly in international commercial exchanges.”
1988-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 43 (1988)
“Nevertheless, this failure should not overshadow the remarkable efforts made by the two great Powers, the United States and the Soviet Union, gradually to eliminate the threats of war, particularly nuclear war. The ratification of the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles has given concrete form to the two great Powers will for peace and true disarmament. At the same time, it has the advantage of opening the path to more numerous and more audacious initiatives. Hence, it is in everyone's interest that the two great Powers tirelessly pursue their negotiations to reach agreement on a reduction by 50 per cent in their strategic nuclear arsenals and their conventional forces in Europe.”
1988-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 43 (1988)
“The third special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament should have been a milestone in the long history of the efforts to maintain and strengthen international peace and security. Unfortunately the hopes aroused by the progress achieved since the first special session and by the recent positive developments concerning disarmament did not take concrete form in the re-launching of the process of general and complete disarmament. This special session, which adjourned without the slightest consensus, could well have aroused doubts about our Organization's ability to encourage and strengthen the multilateral approach to disarmament.”
1988-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 43 (1988)
“Banning or assassinating anti-apartheid militants, prolonging the state of emergency without any reason to do so cannot stop the historic march of the black people towards their freedom. With regard to the Palestinian tragedy, Togo shares the concern about the situation in the occupied territories. The Palestinian people's right to a country and respect for the sovereignty of States are principles on which the settlement of this conflict should be based. My country advocates the idea of an international conference under the auspices of the United Nations in which all the parties concerned would participate, including, of course, the Palestine Liberation Organisation.”
1988-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 43 (1988)
“These harbingers of peace that are springing up here and there go hand in hand, unfortunately, with serious uncertainty, which makes it necessary for us to marshal our will and focus our efforts on methods that are worthy of our times and that can deal with the misery of millions of men and women who are still excluded from the community of free and sovereign peoples. That is true of the black majority in South African, which endures every day the suffering and humiliation caused by apartheid. In fact, the leaders in Pretoria, deaf to all the protests by public opinion, are obstinately perpetuating the practice of apartheid, this socio-political system that is inevitably condemned to disappear.”
1988-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 43 (1988)
“Of course, only the withdrawal of all the foreign troops will make it possible to find a final solution to this painful problem. In the Korean peninsula, the willingness of the two Governments, of the North and of the South, to engage in dialogue seems to be gradually taking hold and broadening. Togo supports the idea of the peaceful reunification of the two territorial entities and believes that the implementation of the three-point plan proposed by North Korea should be negotiated in the context of sincere and fraternal harmonization of views, taking due account of the free will of the Korean people as a whole.”
1988-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 43 (1988)
“We pay a tribute here to the five Heads of State of the region, who, by reaffirming their commitment to honour all the obligations resulting from the Esquipulas II agreement, have greatly increased the chances for peace in Central America. The international community should promote and encourage these efforts in order to achieve the hoped-for results. In Kampuchea the Kampuchean people should be enabled quickly to exercise the right to self-determination which they have been denied for a long time because of the invasion and occupation of their territory by foreign forces. My country, which has always supported the just liberation struggle of the Kampuchean people has taken note of the Vietnamese Government's intention to withdraw 50,000 soldiers.”
1988-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 43 (1988)
“As for Namibia, after decades of hard struggle and intense efforts, it is now moving towards the application of Security Council resolution 435 (1978), which stipulated the conditions for the achievement of its independence. It is to be hoped that the dialogue developing within the framework of negotiations between Angola, South Africa, Cuba and the United States will culminate in a just and true peace in that part of our continent. The agreements on Afghanistan reached in Geneva last March are a decisive contribution to the peace process in that region. Those agreements are based on the Afghan people's right - finally recognized - to choose, without any foreign interference the political economic and social system they regard as being in conformity with their aspirations. The edifice of peace is being built also in Central America.”
1988-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 43 (1988)
“This conflict, which has seriously and sorely tested bilateral relations in the region and significantly disturbed the evolution of the Organization of African Unity, will soon find its culmination in the referendum which will make it possible for the Sahraoui people freely to express themselves on their future and thus exercise their right to self-determination. The tensions which have disturbed relations between Chad and Libya are finally entering a phase of detente. Ito go, which follows with great interest this evolution, is pleased with the reaffirmed will of those two countries to seek peaceful means to solve their differences. We urge them to work towards the normalization of their relations so that a new era of good-neighbourliness and fraternal co-operation may open up for their respective populations.”
1988-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 43 (1988)
“In our interdependent world, military victories are only intermediate stages which do not bring any definitive solutions to the problems of relations among States. We have to discuss, negotiate and understand each other. There is no alternative. Thus we hail with relief the establishment of the cease-fire between Iran and Iraq. This is a result of the efforts constantly and tirelessly made by the Secretary-General to ensure that the region of the Gulf and its peoples, afflicted by eight years of cruel war, can finally rediscover the benefits of peace. In Western Sahara peace efforts are being given a great impetus and a better chance, undoubtedly because of the need for integration that necessarily brings together the Maghreb States.”
1988-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 43 (1988)
“That peace, which should underlie any development effort, constitutes the corner-stone of equilibrium in our respective societies and should be assured on the regional level by the implementation by each State of a policy of good-neighbourliness and peaceful coexistence and through the abolition of terrorism, particularly that clandestinely engaged in by States for the purpose of destabilizing their neighbours and thus diverting efforts from the only struggle that deserves to be waged - that for the social and economic development of our peoples. The search for peace should resolutely avoid all temptations of pressure or blackmail by terrorism, which sows grief and imperils progress and security for our populations.”
1988-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 43 (1988)
“Thus one must ask, is it really necessary that losses of human life and human suffering must lead us to the very brink of exhaustion so that there can be recognition and acceptance, finally, of the basic truth of history that force is only dissuasion if it is not reason? Togo has always proclaimed its faith in the virtues of peace. It appreciates its benefits and has done so for almost a quarter of a century of political sterility. We would like to reaffirm here, in this year of the celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that the links between peace and human rights are indissoluble.”
1988-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 43 (1988)
“Of course there are grave concerns as well as to the ways and means of overcoming the grave crisis which continues to shake the economies of the countries of the third world. It is time to launch international economic co-operation on a healthy and more equitable basis. We should like to express our sadness at the failure of the third special session of the General Assembly on disarmament. Here and there rays of light do appear among the storm clouds, which in some areas of the globe seemed to make impossible any hope of peace. The will to undertake a dialogue which has finally been shown in those areas is indeed a miracle. Certainly there has always been a shorter, less painful way to succeed in bringing men to work together on a more equal basis, even if they have not loved each other as brothers.”
1988-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 43 (1988)
“The Nobel Prize, which has just been awarded to the United Nations Peace-keeping Forces, rightly honours the courage and devotion of the thousands of men and women mobilized in our common name to assure peace in the trouble spots of the world. This gesture of the Nobel Prize Committer honours before world public opinion the crucial role played by these forces in maintaining peace. Through me, my country, Togo, wishes warmly to congratulate them. The forty-third session of the General Assembly is taking place in an international climate characterized by both legitimate hops and grave concern. The hope arises from the will of the two greatest Powers to reduce and progressively eliminate the threat of war, particularly nuclear war, and to settle peacefully the conflicts still tearing apart certain regions of the world.”
1988-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 43 (1988)
“My delegation would like once again to express to him its warm appreciation and esteem. My delegation would like also to congratulate very warmly the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Javier Perez de Cuellar, on the pragmatic and efficient way in which he continues to serve our Organization. I should like particularly to hail his constant efforts to increase the Organisation's capacity for action and to promote the peaceful settlement of disputes and the application of the United Nations Programme for the Economic Recovery and Development of Africa. I should like to assure him once again of the constant support of ray country in his work in carrying out his difficult and delicate responsibilities. .”
1988-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 43 (1988)
“I should like first of all to express the warmest congratulations of the delegation of Ito go to Mr, Dante Caputo on his election as President of this forty-third session of the General Assembly. That choice is certainly justified by his well-known diplomatic qualities and the firm devotion of his country Argentina, to the service of the noble ideals of the United Nations and the values of solidarity among peoples. These are all virtues aid assets that make it possible for us to predict success for the work that will take place under his presidency. Throughout the forty-second session of the General Assembly his illustrious predecessor, Mr. Peter Florin, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the German Democratic republic, demonstrated tact and competence in successfully guiding the work of the Assembly.”
1988-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 43 (1988)