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  1. “Some people thought they could settle for a de facto situation which is in contravention of the Tripartite Agreements of Zurich and which is flagrantly prejudicial to the rights of a minority. It is not surprising that the minority should have felt that its rights were being dangerously threatened. When the already precarious balance that prevailed was destroyed by a coup d'etat endangering the independence of the country, the inevitable happened, and a conflict, grave in its consequences, came close to pitting two neighbouring Mediterranean nations against each other, two nations which had every reason to be reconciled. 21.”

    1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)

  2. “There is another question, which does not date from yesterday and which, because a satisfactory solution has not been found for it, is dangerously rearing its head once' more in the form of a crisis that is likely to upset the balance of powers in an important strategic region in the Mediterranean basin. 19. The question of Cyprus is among those which have always been of concern to the United Nations. The United Nations troops have effectively helped to prevent a confrontation between the two communities on the island. But the calm brought to the island by those forces has not been used profitably in order to achieve a final solution to the fundamental problem that would guarantee the coexistence of the two communities. 20.”

    1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)

  3. “The myth of the invincibility of Israel has been destroyed, and that country, together with those who support it, must accept the new state of affairs. The chief element in that state of affairs is the determination of the Arab countries, whatever their differences with regard to other questions, to bring about a just and lasting solution based upon the right of peoples to self-determination and on the recognition that that right belongs to the Palestinian people in particular. And do we need to remind the Assembly that the Arab countries have demonstrated their capacity to use for that purpose all the resources available to them? 18.”

    1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)

  4. “But while the existence of Israel has become a fact, that State persists not only in refusing to evacuate the territories occupied in 1947, or those it has occupied ever since its aggression of 1967, but what is more, it categorically denies the very existence of the Palestinian people, an existence provided for in the document upon which its own existence is founded. For 20 years Israel has succeeded in arguing its extremist claims; but today, after the rebirth of the Palestine resistance movement, centered in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), whose leaders are the authentic and incontestable representatives of the Palestinian people as a whole, after the war of October 1973, it is no longer reasonable to continue to claim that Israel can still prolong its supremacy over the Arab Middle East.”

    1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)

  5. “We are all aware how things have developed. The decision to partition in 1947 was one of the most flagrant injustices in the history of mankind. In spite of that injustice, and since the decision of the world Organization conferred legitimacy on the partition plan, President Bourguiba tried to have it accepted both by the Arab States and by the Palestinians, and in 1965 appealed to have it conceded. That solution, which was not accepted at that time, now seems in the eyes of many the only way out of the crisis because it guarantees the existence of Israel within legal frontiers, as the great Powers required, at the same time as it permits the existence of the Palestinian State on a legal basis recognized by the United Nations. 17.”

    1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)

  6. “The struggle of the Palestinian people is a natural phenomenon because it expresses the will of a people to affirm its right to existence. This struggle indeed does credit to all men, as it does credit to all those who, in spite of their misfortunes and the vicissitudes of history, have remained faithful in their conviction of their rights, without ever despairing of human justice. It will be simply doing them justice to permit them to come and make their voices heard in this hall before the representatives of world public opinion. 15. Yes, indeed, it is high time for the United Nations, which assumed great responsibilities with regard to Palestine, when in 1947 it decided on its partition [resolution 181 (II)], to examine this problem in the light of new developments that have occurred in the area. 16.”

    1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)

  7. “That is the fundamental reality, and no one will ever understand the Middle East crisis if he not grasped the truth of the Palestinian tragedy in all its ramifications. Therefore, we can only take pleasure; at seeing the question of Palestine included as a separate item on the Assembly's agenda [item 108] in accordance with the analysis of it made by President Bourguiba for more than 10 years now. It is time for the world to realize the will and determination of the Palestinian people to impose its right to life with its homeland and its security restored to it. 13. It is time to realize that without the Palestinian problem, there would never have been a Middle East problem, nor the specter of war that-from day to day threatens the whole world from this region. 14.”

    1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)

  8. “The Assembly is duty-bound to draw the attention of the Security Council to the dangers involved in prolonging such a situation, the perpetuation of which would be tantamount, against all logic, to the recognition of the legitimacy of the occupation of the territory of others and the supremacy of injustice over right. 12. While the evacuation of the territories occupied in 1967 is indispensable, it is far from being sufficient to get to the root of the problem because, as everyone realizes, including Israel, the essential problem is still the fate of the people of Palestine. This is not just a question of housing refugees or of international charity, but of the right of a whole people to its homeland, its dignity, its national character, its identity, and its freedom to decide what shall become of it.”

    1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)

  9. “It is the duty of the great Powers, which have agreed to assume a special responsibility for the safeguarding of world peace, to bring Israel to reason, with a view to serious negotiations. For, if the Geneva negotiations or negotiations elsewhere do not within a reasonable period of time lead to the implementation of the Security Council's decisions there is a risk that the crisis will deteriorate dangerously and even degenerate into a new conflict with very serious consequences not only for the region but for the whole world. 11.”

    1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)

  10. “But this hope has disappeared. The difficulties raised by the Israelis have prevented peace efforts from succeeding. It would seem that the leaders in Tel Aviv have learned no lesson from the October war and that, in spite of changes in their Government, they persist in believing that security can be built on the conquest of the territories of others. In other words, they continue to believe in the supremacy of might over right. 10. The Arab countries, which agreed to sign the disengagement agreements, have seen Israel once again profiting from their desire for peace by freezing a situation that both suits it and permits it to strengthen its grip on the occupied territories.”

    1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)

  11. “Today, we have to deal with many questions on our agenda, each of which has its importance and its gravity. But the most serious thing perhaps is the fact that those problems are not new ones and are not confronting us for the first time. They have been submitted to us today in fact in far more acute terms than hitherto and there is real urgency surrounding some of them. 8. Thus, the past year was marked by the consequences of the war of October 1973 in the Middle East and despite the progress resulting from the troop disengagements, the problem is still there in its entirety. We very much hoped that the Geneva Peace Conference on the Middle East would lead to the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the territories occupied in 1967, thus opening up the way to an examination of the fundamental problem, which is the Palestinian question. 9.”

    1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)

  12. “Hence, we believe it indispensable to associate the United Nations with the great Powers in dealing with all problems affecting the fate of mankind. 5. In that respect I wish to pay tribute to the tireless efforts that the Secretary-General, Mr. Kurt Waldheim, has been successfully exerting to strengthen the chances for peace throughout the world and to give the Organization .its proper place and the supreme responsibilities for which it was created. 6. Mr. President, permit me to express my great satisfaction at addressing the Assembly in the Arabic language, which now has the legal status that is due to it, and to consider this change as illustrating the capacity of the Organization to adapt itself to one of the requirements of the evolution which I have mentioned. 7.”

    1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)

  13. “That obliges us to study ways of developing the methods used by the Organization so that it may remain in harmony with the changes occurring in the world and fully meet the requirements flowing from those changes. Indeed, realism and sense of responsibility oblige us to consider things in a balanced and rational way and to seek effectiveness when we choose our methods of action. 4. It is true that the great Powers have special responsibilities in the maintenance of international peace and security, and the situation is not likely to change soon. But the development process that I have just mentioned and our concern to avoid a situation in which the Organization will be overtaken by events make it necessary to search for such means as can reconcile the requirements of the present order with those of that development process.”

    1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)

  14. “The United Nations represents the international conscience -indeed, it should represent the only sincere conscience that exists -thus becoming a source of hope for nations and peoples through the way it deals with all the problems that may confront the world, whether they be conflicts and crises or questions concerning progress towards peace and development. 3. We do not, however, think that the United Nations must completely upset the order established in international relations since the Second World War. Indeed, we are too much attached to the Organization to wish it to engage in such a course; we are sufficiently mature also not to wish it to do so. Nevertheless, we think that the present circumstances are perceptibly different from those existing when the United Nations was created.”

    1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)

  15. “We are all the more pleased to see a statesman of your stature presiding over this session of the Assembly because the agenda before us indicates that this will be a very important session, in view of the acuteness and gravity of the problems facing it, particularly those affecting international peace and security. What could be more normal than for these problems to be submitted to the international community, and particularly to the General Assembly, which in our view is the principal instrument for the search for appropriate solutions, however grave the problems may be and whatever ramifications they may have.”

    1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)

  16. “Mr. President, the Tunisian delegation is happy to associate itself with all the speakers who have already congratulated you on your election as President of this session of the General Assembly, succeeding Mr. Benites, whom the Organization will always remember as a man of great competence and ability. Tunisia has more than one reason to take pleasure in this demonstration of confidence in you and, through you, in the Government of Algeria, its President, the Algerian people, the great Arab Maghreb, and the African continent as a whole. 2.”

    1974-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 29 (1974)