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1. “The United Nations should render to the peoples of Aden and South Arabia all possible assistance and support in their legitimate struggle for genuine freedom and independence. 55. The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic supports all the decisions of the General Assembly aimed at the earliest elimination of the colonial regimes. We favour the immediate granting of independence to the peoples of colonial Territories. 56. There can he no doubt that the colonial regimes in the Republic of South Africa, the Portuguese colonies and Southern Rhodesia are holding out because of the economic, political and military assistance they receive from some NATO countries. The General Assembly has already determined that the support rendered by Western countries to colonialists is based on the interests of international monopolies. 57.”

   1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

2. “However, the resistance of the African patriots is growing and becoming stronger. The peoples of the Portuguese colonies are determined to struggle for freedom and independence until they achieve complete victory. 54. The flames of national liberation wars are leaping ever higher in the South of the Arabian Peninsula. The soil is burning under the feet of the British colonialists. They are being forced to leave Aden and South Arabia. But before leaving they are trying to preserve their domination, their economic and military positions in that region and to foist upon the people of Aden and South Arabia a puppet regime that would serve the interests of the British Crown.”

   1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

3. “A situation fraught with danger to peace and security still exists in Southern Rhodesia, where a handful of racists seized power and established a regime of colonial terrorism. For two years London and Salisbury have shamelessly bargained over the interests and the very destiny of the people of Zimbabwe. 52. The General Assembly must demand that the administering Power put the resolutions on Southern Rhodesia into effect and grant freedom and independence to the long-suffering people of Zimbabwe. 53. The actions of the Portuguese colonialists have aroused the wrath and indignation of all people of goodwill throughout the world. The Lisbon rulers regard the modern world in the light of past centuries. They try to prove by force of arms their "right" to Angola, Mozambique, Guinea (Bissau) and other colonies.”

   1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

4. “One of the largest bulwarks of colonialism is in the southern part of the African continent. There the "classical" colonialism of the Portuguese is closely interwoven with the ugly inhuman policy of apartheid and the racism of South Africa and Southern Rhodesia. 50. In spite of the fact that the General Assembly deprived South Africa of its mandate over South West Africa [2145 (XXI)], the racists still dominate that territory by force of arms. We believe that the rule of the Republic of South Africa in South West Africa must be immediately terminated, and this means the withdrawal of all armed and police forces, the abolition of the colonial state machinery and the transfer of power to the people of the country. 51.”

   1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

5. “In this respect, constructive proposals are contained in the Declaration on Strengthening Peace and Security in Europe, adopted at the meeting of the Political Consultative Committee of the member States of the Warsaw Treaty and in the Declaration of the European Communist and Workers’ Parties adopted in April 1967 at the conference in Karlovy Vary. 48. The United Nations, having adopted its historical 1960 Declaration [resolution 1514 (XV)] on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, pronounced an emphatic "no" to colonialism. In the process of implementation of this Declaration a crushing blow was inflicted on colonialism, and considerable credit for that goes to the United Nations. 49. Nevertheless, millions of people are still living under conditions of colonial slavery.”

   1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

6. “If Bonn really wishes to pursue a constructive policy it should pass from illusory plans to real ones, and first of all it should renounce its claims to territories of other States. The problem of the frontiers in Europe has been solved, and no revision can be possible. The German Democratic Republic exists as an independent, peace-loving State, beneficially influencing the consolidation of peace in Europe. 47. In pursuing a policy of peace and businesslike co-operation, the European socialist countries, including the German Democratic Republic, are widening the sphere of application of the principles of peaceful coexistence and promoting the solution of the problems of European and general collective security.”

   1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

7. “The decisive factors in this respect are to ensure the stability of the existing frontiers in Europe and to prevent the revanchist forces from acquiring nuclear weapons. 44. Recently, certain people in the West have been advocating the idea of the so-called "new Eastern policy” which is allegedly being pursued by the present Government of the Federal Republic of Germany. That country’s ruling circles even complain that the "new" policy is being disregarded and ignored in the East. 45. The facts, however, convincingly prove that the policy of the Federal Republic of Germany remains essentially unchanged: it is a policy of revenge, militarism, non-recognition of the real situation in Europe and encroachment on the territories of other States and nations, including the territory of the German Democratic Republic. 46.”

   1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

8. “The draft convention proposed by the Soviet delegation fully meets this requirement. In order finally to prohibit the use of nuclear weapons, there must, of course, in the first place be the will to do so on the part of the nuclear States and all other States. The peoples of the world also expect from us a solution of this important question of our day. 42. The history of the first half of the twentieth century has taught mankind to follow closely developments on the continent of Europe, where two world wars have originated. 43. The peoples of the Soviet Union, including the Ukrainian people, suffered great losses in the Second World War; we paid a high price for our victory over the Hitlerite hordes. Our vital interest in the maintenance of European security is therefore fully understandable.”

   1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

9. “It was six years ago that, on the initiative of Ethiopia and other African and Asian States, and with the active support of the socialist countries, the sixteenth session of the United Nations General Assembly adopted the well- known Declaration on the prohibition of the use of nuclear and thermonuclear weapons [resolution 1653 (XVI)]. 40. The Declaration clearly states that "the use of nuclear and thermonuclear weapons is contrary to the spirit, letter and aims of the United Nations and, as such, a direct violation of the Charter of the United Nations". This recommendation expresses the firm will of the peoples to prohibit the use of nuclear weapons, and now the task is to give it the form of specific contractual obligations by States, through the elaboration and conclusion of an international convention to that end. 41.”

   1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

10. “The delegation of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic believes that efforts to prevent the danger of nuclear war should also be undertaken in other directions. In this respect we completely support the proposal made by the Soviet delegation for the conclusion of a convention on the prohibition of nuclear weapons (A/6834). We are convinced that the conclusion of such a convention would mark an important step towards the complete prohibition of nuclear weapons and would constitute an effective obstacle to the unleashing of a nuclear missile war. 39. A solution of the question of prohibiting the use of nuclear weapons is long overdue. The idea of prohibiting the use of nuclear weapons has gained the widespread support of the majority of States Members of the United Nations.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

11. “This task, which is in full conformity with General Assembly decisions, particularly with resolution 2028 (XX), acquires special urgency now in connexion with the attempts by the West German revanchists to gain access to nuclear weapons, which they need in order to carry out their plans for a revision of the post-war boundaries of Europe. 36. It is not a mere coincidence that the prospect of the conclusion of a treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons has led Bonn to advance all kinds of pre-conditions and reservations. 37. The peoples of the whole world are looking forward to the signing of the treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons because they consider it to be a valuable contribution to the solution of the problem of general and complete disarmament. 38.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

12. “The delegation of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic notes with satisfaction that the negotiations on the conclusion of a treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons have reached their final stage. 34. We have before us now a specific document on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons which is the result of the consistent efforts of the Soviet Union and other socialist States, and of all the peace-loving forces fighting against the nuclear threat and for international security. 35. The main task of the treaty is to exclude any possibility of a proliferation of nuclear weapons in the world.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

13. “The dialectics of the development of present-day international relations are such that a slackening of the struggle of peace-loving peoples for disarmament will leave the most aggressive circles free to act. The persistent struggle of all peoples for disarmament, on the other hand, will seriously limit the possibility of manoeuvring for the warmongers. 32. However great the difficulties on the path to disarmament may be, we should spare no effort to attain understanding on this extremely important question. 33. The solution of the problem of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons would be an important step towards the cessation of the arms race.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

14. “The current session of the General Assembly should devote special attention to the question of the definition of aggression. The elaboration of a precise and specific definition of aggression will make it easier to prevent aggression, to render assistance to its victims and to defend their legitimate rights and interests. Our delegation will give every support to the proposal to expedite the elaboration of a definition of aggression. 31. In the present circumstances, when international tension is not diminishing but, on the contrary, is steadily mounting as a result of the activities of aggressive forces, the solution of the disarmament problem assumes ever greater importance.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

15. “All these facts once again convince us that in the present circumstances, when local aggressive actions threaten to develop into much more serious conflicts and when the independence and sovereignty of States are Increasingly being exposed to new, dangerous blows, energetic and concerted action on the part of all peace-loving forces is needed more than ever before. 29. It is in this light that we are considering the proposal of the Soviet delegation on expediting the elaboration of definition of aggression [A/6833]. This problem has remained unsolved up till now, and the blame for that rests entirely with those Western Powers that find it convenient to have no definition of aggression, since that makes it easier for them to unleash it. 30.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

16. “It has to be judged largely on its international merits and not in terms of specific domestic consequences within individual States. It is that distinction which justifies intervention — it is that distinction which warrants our involvement today in the effort to create regional stability in South-East Asia." 27. What do people like Brzezinski care for the United Nations Charter or the United Nations Declaration on the inadmissibility of interference? As soon as they need to "justify" their role as world gendarme a new doctrine emerges, and this time it is the doctrine of "regional stability". 28.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

17. “Recent events show how the imperialists try to impose their will upon freedom-loving peoples by force of arms and to subject them to their domination. In this connexion the apologists of aggression try to find "new" justifications for their right to intervene. Such an attempt was made recently by Mr. Brzezinski, member of the Policy Planning Council of the State Department of the United States. In his statement at the conference on foreign policy matters held in Washington in May 1967, he stated, inter alia: "Under what conditions should we or should we not intervene? It is extraordinarily difficult to define clear-cut criteria; but as a broad generalization, it might be said that intervention is justified whenever its absence will create regional instability of expanding proportions.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

18. “The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic has supported and will support the legitimate rights and interests of the Arab peoples and will continue to speak out in favour of the restoration and consolidation of peace in the Middle East. 25. Mr. Shcherbitsky, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR, speaking at the emergency special session of the General Assembly, stated: "Our people associates itself with those who resolutely condemn Israel aggression and who demand an unconditional cessation of such aggression and a reparation of all its consequences... We consider... that the United Nations must take a firm stand for the elimination of aggression and of all its consequence”. [1532nd meeting, paras. 19 and 42.] 26.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

19. “In putting forward such outrageous territorial claims the aggressors even have the audacity to lecture the United Nations, Recently we witnessed in the General Assembly how the Foreign Minister of Israel tried to dictate to other States and to the United Nations itself what they should and should not do. 23. All this indicates that Israel is not only not renouncing its schemes of conquest but is continuing to stir up tensions in the Middle East. That is why the demand for an immediate withdrawal of the Israel invaders from the Arab territories still remains the main issue at this stage. 24. The United Nations cannot condone any encroachment upon the territorial integrity and freedom of sovereign States.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

20. “Israel is arrogantly flouting the General Assembly resolutions [2253 (ES-V) and 2254 (ES-V)] which denounce the annexation of Jerusalem and call upon it ”... to rescind all the measures taken and immediately to refrain from taking actions which would change the status of Jerusalem". Every day brings new instances of Israel’s provocative actions in Jerusalem. 21. The aggressors are also seeking to retain other seized areas of the Arab States. Having expelled the indigenous Arab population from the occupied territories and having plundered their properties, the Israel authorities are now taking steps to settle their own citizens in those territories. Not long ago Premier Eshkol announced to the world that the Suez Canal was a natural boundary of the State of Israel. 22.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

21. “The crux of the problem is this: unless the consequences of the Israel aggression are eliminated there will be no lasting peace in that part of the globe. 19. At the emergency special session of the General Assembly the overwhelming majority of Member States of the United Nations condemned the aggressor and supported the legitimate rights and interests of the Arab countries and the restoration and consolidation of peace in the Middle East. Recent events have shown that Israel is flagrantly violating the resolutions of the Security Council and the General Assembly by committing new acts of provocation against Arab nations and shelling towns in the Suez Canal area and in the territory of Jordan. 20.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

22. “In such a situation there cannot be any unconcerned onlookers, for United States aggression in Viet-Nam endangers peace throughout the world. One should not forget that every new step taken by the United States in escalating the war in Viet-Nam will inevitably entail retaliatory measures. 17. The Soviet Union and other socialist countries are on the side of the Viet-Namese people and support their heroic struggle. The Ukrainian people, together with the other peoples of the Soviet Union, is rendering all forms of assistance to the people of Viet-Nam, We emphatically condemn the American aggression and demand that it be stopped immediately. 18. Another grave danger to peace is Israel’s aggression against Arab countries. The situation in the Middle East continues to cause great anxiety.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

23. “The United States armed forces are mining rivers of the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam, shelling its territory from warships and expanding aerial bombardment. 14. On the eve of the twenty-second session of the General Assembly the United States, for the first time during the hostilities, bombed the port of Campha and other populated areas of Viet-Nam. 15. Is not this the way to achieve a military solution of the Viet-Nam problem and are not the United States Government's pronouncements about apolitical solution and a peaceful settlement of the Viet-Namese question merely demagoguery? 16. It is incumbent upon each responsible Government to realize fully the perils of the present United States policy, which is setting the world on a dangerous course, and to condemn the aggression and demand that an end be put to it unconditionally.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

24. “It is not the Viet-Namese troops that are on the territory of the United States but the American armed forces that wage war in Viet-Nam, No Viet-Namese planes are raiding the territory of the United States, but American air pirates are bombing towns and villages of the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam. 12. Pham Van Dong, Head of Government of the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam, declared on 31 August 1967, only a month ago, that "if the American side really wishes to negotiate, it must, in the first place, unconditionally stop bombings and all other military activities against the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam.” 13. The United States militarists, however, prefer to follow a different course. The United States Government is heading for a further escalation of the war.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

25. “This year we are again hearing it said here that all the United States has in mind is the restoration of peace in Viet-Nam, Mr. Goldberg stated: "... this conflict can and should be ended by a political situation...A military solution is not the answer." [1562nd meeting, para. 4.] 11. What is it that prevents the United States from translating its peace-loving declarations into reality? It is evident to anyone that peace in Viet-Nam can be achieved only as a result of the withdrawal of the aggressor, and this depends exclusively on the United States.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

26. “Previously the United States ruling circles camouflaged their actions by talking of certain limited police actions which, allegedly, did not harm the country's peaceful population, but today the United States brass is no longer concealing the fact that the objective of the war is total annihilation, The Commander-in- Chief of the American armed forces in Viet-Nam openly declares that the United States will simply go on bleeding the North Viet-Namese white until Hanoi realizes that the country has become so weak that this will be a national catastrophe for a number of generations to come. 10. While waging a war of annihilation against the Viet-Namese people and trying to bring that people to its knees, the United States Government is trying to persuade world public opinion that its sole concern is to seek peace in Viet-Nam.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

27. “The United States has despatched huge land, naval and air forces to suppress the national liberation movement of the Viet-Namese people. The United States is criminally bombing the territory of the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam and carrying out large-scale military operations in South Viet-Nam, exterminating peaceful populations. 9.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

28. “The foreign policy of the socialist society, which is based on the principles of peace, equality and self- determination of peoples, exerts an ever-greater determining influence on the international situation. And however dark may be the clouds hanging over the international horizon of today, we are deeply convinced that the forces of peace will triumph over those of aggression. That is the essential meaning of the profound processes which determine the revolution of contemporary history. 7. The most serious source of international tension which threatens world peace is the United States aggression in Viet-Nam. The criminal war, waged at the beginning mostly by the army of the Saigon puppets, has long since developed into a war of annihilation waged by the United States against the freedom-loving people of that small nation in Asia. 8.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

29. “4. That adventurist and militarist policy is countered by the policy of peace and international security pursued by socialist and other peace-loving countries. 5. The policy of peace proceeds from the recognition of the new objective natural laws which emerged as a result of the victorious Great October Socialist Revolution. The world is moving along the trail blazed by that Revolution in 1917. Attempts by the imperialist forces to hamper or side-track this development away from the revolutionary process cannot succeed and are doomed to failure. The forces that rejuvenate the world are invincible. We wish to remind once more of that fact all those who endeavour here to justify acts of aggression. The new system of public life has become firmly established on our planet. 6.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

30. “If the twenty-first session of the General Assembly was held in difficult circumstances, the present Assembly has to work in an atmosphere of even greater International complications resulting from the continued escalation of the war in Viet-Nam and Israel's aggression against the Arab States. 3. In International relations in the current year there have been numerous acts of interference in the domestic affairs of independent countries and peoples, as well as various kinds of subversive activities against their territorial integrity and sovereignty. There is a continual increase in the arms race, which absorbs tremendous material resources at a time when hundreds of millions of people on our planet are deprived of the most elementary living conditions. Efforts are being made to intensify the activities of aggressive blocs and alliances.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

31. “1. Comrade President, please accept our sincere congratulations on this occasion when you, a representative of a fraternal socialist nation, have been elected President of the United Nations General Assembly. We are confident that you will honourably discharge the strenuous duties of this high and responsible office. I am also pleased to be able to thank Ambassador Pazhwak for the great efforts and skill he displayed during the fruitful proceedings of the last three sessions of the General Assembly. 2. Many delegations that have spoken before me have noted with legitimate concern that tension in the world has increased considerably of late. This is indeed true.”

    1967-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 22 (1967)

32. “As in the past it will regard the United Nations as an arena for active political struggle against imperialism and aggression, for the cause of peace and the security of all peoples.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

33. “The Republic has become a country with great metallurgical, chemical and engineering industries, a country of developed agriculture, advanced science and flourishing culture. 146. Everything we are building and creating, everything on which our workers and collective farmers, our engineers and scientists, all the working people of our country are labouring-all this is being built and created for peace on earth, for the triumph of free labour, in the name of the ideals of democracy, fraternal friendship and co-operation among all peoples of the world, for man and for mankind as a whole. 147. Permit me to assure the General Assembly that the Ukrainian SSR, as in the past, will give its full support to the principles and purposes enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

34. “I shall quote only two figures to show how high we have set our targets: during the five years of the plan the mean annual volume of industrial production will increase by 50 per cent and that of agricultural production by 25 per cent. Our Republic is now producing more pig-iron, steel, rolled iron, iron and manganese ore and natural gas than any other West European country. The completion of the new five-year plan will raise our national economy to an even higher level. 145. Next year our country will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. The 1917 Revolution led to the Ukraine’s conversion, in a short interval of historical time, from a backward agrarian country into a leading industrial and agrarian State.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

35. “Such a step would contribute to the strict observance of the United Nations Charter and would help to enhance the role of this Organization as an instrument of peace and international co-operation. 143. In stating from this tribune our views concerning the activities of the United Nations and its place in international affairs, the Ukrainian delegation would like to stress the prominent role played by Secretary-General U Thant and to declare that, if he were to express his willingness to remain in office for a further term, that decision on his part would meet with the support of the Ukrainian SSR. 144. This year the Ukrainian people are starting to implement a new* five-year economic development plan.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

36. “The delegation of tire Ukrainian SSR, together with the delegations of Byelorussia, Bulgaria, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Mongolia, Poland, Romania and the Soviet Union, has submitted for the consideration of this session the question of the withdrawal of all United States and other foreign troops from South Korea and the dissolution of the so-called United Nations Commission for the Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea [A/6394]. We believe that consideration of this question would help to redress the injustice done to the Korean people and to put an end to tire foreign interference, carried on in the name of the United Nations, in the domestic affairs of that people.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

37. “To improve the effectiveness of the United Nations in strengthening peace means, first of all, putting an end to violations of the Charter of the United Nations, once and for all freeing tire United Nations from every vestige of the cold-war period and creating in the United Nations a climate conducive to the collaboration of all States on an equal footing. 141. One of the left-overs from tire past, from the cold-war period, is the presence of the so-called Korean question on the agenda of the General Assembly. The purpose of that question is somehow to cloak the occupation of South Korea by United States troops in the United Nations flag. 142.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

38. “The admission of the German Democratic Republic to membership in the United Nations would, beyond all question, increase the possibilities for the United Nations to act in the name of the world and would serve the interests both of the German people and of all peace-loving peoples; for the German Democratic Republic occupies an important place in the system of international relations and is an important factor for peace in Europe. It has long been necessary to put an end to the discrimination practised against the People’s Republic of China, to admit its lawful representatives to participation in the activities of the United Nations and to expel from this Organization tire Chiang Kai-shek clique, which represents nobody at all. 140.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

39. “The Charter of the United Nations links measures for strengthening world peace with the development of friendly relations among States on the basis of equality of rights and self-determination of peoples. Genuine universality of international organizations, and in the first place of the United Nations, would be a guarantee for the objective solution of international problems. Since the strengthening of peace and the development of friendly relations are obligations incumbent on all States, participation in international organizations should not be denied to a single State which has a policy directed to the achievement of those ends. 139.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

40. “It is our conviction that the United Nations would thereby provide those countries with the necessary support in their struggle for the right to be masters of their own national resources; for the economic and social progress of the developing countries depends largely on how effectively they can exercise sovereignty over their natural resources. 137. Our delegation has read with great attention the report of the Ad Hoc Committee of Fourteen on financial matters [A/6343]. We consider its conclusions highly interesting and we hope that the Committee’s useful activity will promote greater co-ordination of activities among the institutions and organs of the United Nations family and greater economy in the use of budgetary resources. 138.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

41. “It is even being suggested that tire decisions of the first Conference, including the principles it approved in the matter of international trade relations and policies, should be revised. 135. The Ukrainian SSR is in favour of the most rapid practical implementation of the principles laid down by that Conference and of its recommendations. We believe that the forthcoming conference on trade and development should consolidate the achievements of the first Conference and reject any attempt at revision of the principles already approved, We are still in favour of universality for that organization. 136. The Ukrainian delegation likewise considers that the United Nations should take the most radical measures to strengthen the sovereign control of developing countries over their natural resources.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

42. “In this connexion the Ukrainian delegation declares its full support for the proposal of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic concerning strict observance of the prohibition of the threat or use of force in international relations, and of the right of peoples to self-determination [A/6393]. 133. The General Assembly has before it a number of economic and financial problems for its consideration. Of particular importance are the questions of international trade, including trade between East and West and the strengthening of the economies of the developing countries. 134. We believe that the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development should play a positive role in this matter. Unfortunately, the recommendations of the 1964 Conference are not in fact being implemented by the Western Powers.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

43. “We mention it only in order to show how thoroughly permeated United States foreign policy is with the philosophy of intervention in the domestic affairs of other States and to what extent this has become a commonplace phenomenon for a considerable number of politicians and even for the supreme legislative body of the United States of America. 131. The delegation of the Ukrainian SSR will support all proposals aimed at further strengthening the standards laid down in the United Nations Declaration on the Inadmissibility of Intervention in the Domestic Affairs of States and the Protection of their Independence and Sovereignty. 132. The cause of the peace and security of peoples will gain only if all States Members of this Organization strictly observe the basic principles and provisions of its Charter.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

44. “No less shameful, no less ludicrous, are the annual sessions of both Houses of Congress, when they glorify the attempt to establish, with the bayonets of foreign interventionists, the odious system of exploitation which the Ukrainian people threw on to t! e rubbish heap of history, once and for all, nearly half a century ago. 130. We mention this, not because such musical-comedy representatives constitute any threat to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Such commotions, worthy of Mark Twain’s satirical pen, do not in the least disturb the Ukrainian people, which, together with the other peoples of the USSR, are building communism.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

45. “Intervention in the internal affairs of other States has become a common phenomenon in the foreign policy of the United States of America. Appeals for intervention in the internal affairs of other countries and peoples are heard from the lips of prominent statesmen and politicians of that country. We have in mind, in particular, their speeches at meetings of traitors to the Ukrainian people who fled, together with the German fascists, from Ukrainian soil and found a haven in the United States of America and in Western Germany. In such speeches they express “solidarity” with the actions of war criminals, the erstwhile servants of German fascism, who committed grave crimes against the Ukrainian people during the Second World War. 129.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

46. “The United States is still carrying out its economic blockade of revolutionary Cuba, sending saboteurs and murderers to the island and committing armed provocations against Cuba in the region of the American base at Guantanamo. Cuba is offering resolute resistance to United States intervention in its internal affairs. On its side it has the sympathy and support of peoples throughout the world including the Ukrainian people, which is bound to the heroic Cuban people by close ties of friendship and revolutionary solidarity. 127. In the countries of Latin America intervention by the United States takes a wide variety of forms. The resolution of the United States House of Representatives of 20 September 1965 “legalizes” both indirect and direct intervention in the internal affairs of other States and peoples. 128.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

47. “This, as we see it, was the Soviet Union’s purpose in raising at this session of the General Assembly the question of the status of the implementation of the Declaration on the Inadmissibility of Intervention in the Domestic Affairs of States [A/6397], approved by the General Assembly in 1965 [resolution 2131 (XX)]. 125. We have already referred to the consequences of American imperialist intervention in the domestic affairs of the Viet-Namese people. Another example of armed intervention by the United States was provided by the well- known events in the Dominican Republic. The United States occupation, thinly veiled as assistance by the so-called inter-American armed forces, again showed the true value of the demagogy about respecting the independence and sovereignty of countries “south of the Rio Grande”. 126.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

48. “124. We are not among those who cherish the illusion that the imperialists will voluntarily give up intervening in the domestic affairs of other States. By its very nature imperialism stands in the way of the sovereignty of States and peoples, and the policy of intervention, which is carried out in various forms, derives from the very essence of imperialism. But the peoples of the whole world can and must, through their struggle, build insuperable obstacles to the struggle against imperialist intervention and must uphold the principles of the equality of rights and the sovereignty of States.”

    1966-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 21 (1966)

49. “The very fact that the Security Council is involved in considering colonial problems is surely evidence showing that colonialism brings with it the aggravation of international tension, a threat to peace and the actual violation of peace-that is, aggression. 123. Our Organization has recognized the legitimacy of the struggle waged by peoples under colonial domination for the attainment of their right to self-determination and independence. It has also proposed to all States that they give material and moral help to the national liberation movements in colonial territories. That appeal must be heeded. It must be supported by all who genuinely stand for the freedom of peoples and oppose oppression. The delegation of the Ukrainian SSR considers that the United Nations must assist the colonial peoples to win their freedom and independence.”

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50. “The present session of the General Assembly must clearly and unequivocally proclaim that the further existence of colonialism is a direct negation of those lofty ideals and purposes which this Organization was created to achieve and that the policy of colonialism contradicts the spirit and purposes of the United Nations and is therefore a direct violation of its Charter. 122. Colonialism is a crime not only against humanity, but also against peace. Our Organization has declared, in many of its resolutions, including those of the Security Council, that colonialism threatens peace and security, violates peace.”

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