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PALAMARCHUK

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“Officially, according to the resolutions adopted by the General Assembly [resolutions 1844 (XVII) and 1907 (XVIII)], International Co-operation Year began on 1 January 1965. The Ukrainian Government has devoted considerable interest and understanding to Its preparation and implementation. It has already provided the Secretary-General of the United Nations with a clear presentation of its views on International Co-operation Year, which are, in essence, that the search for ways of solving the more important international problems and of improving mutual understanding and trust between nations must be intensified.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“In the Security Council, the African representatives who unmasked the aggressive nature of the "rescue mission" of the NATO members in the Congo were given clear hints that the United States was holding out a helping hand to Africa and, as might be expected, were recommended to accept that outstretched hand. These tactics of economic and political pressure reflect the line taken by certain States in the United Nations with the aim of disrupting the solidarity and unity of the forces of freedom and peace on the principle of "divide ’and exert political influence". What is of particular importance at the present moment is not, of course, the methods themselves but, so to speak, the massive use that has been made of them at the beginning of International Co-operation Year. This can hardly be regarded as pure chance. 60.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“There is no possible way of equating high moral criteria with the action by a particular country of making participation in technical assistance to the developing countries directly dependent on the position of those countries with regard to the so-called financial crisis of the United Nations. How, in the light of even this one fact, can there be any talk of objectivity and the absence of conditions in the granting of aid? In the present case the conditions are imposed not just on one country, but on all the developing countries together that are Members of the Organization.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“The Soviet Union and other States have displayed the greatest goodwill in trying to prevent the collapse of the United Nations and to overcome the difficulties which the Organization has encountered through the fault of the Western Powers. How can the espousal of the African-Asian proposal of 30 December 1964 by the Soviet Union and the other socialist States be taken as anything but an utterly convincing and indicative example of our goodwill in this regard? 59. Is not the forebearance of the General Assembly being excessively abused by these attempts to conceal covert political motives behind synthetic legal and moral motives and criteria?”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“In the first place, however, the honourable representative of the United Kingdom was appealing to the wrong party, for he is well aware that the so-called financial crisis of the United Nations is not the fault of the Soviet Union and the other socialist countries but of the colonialist Powers. In the second place, if there is to be talk of sincere efforts to concentrate the attention of the United Nations on the solution of such vital problems as general and complete disarmament, the final elimination of colonialism, peaceful coexistence and broad economic co-operation among all countries, then who has insisted more firmly than the Soviet Union and a number of Asian and African countries on the need for their urgent consideration and solution? 58.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“To be frank we were not surprised when, on Tuesday, the honourable representative of the United Kingdom, using arguments which were not fully valid, rushed to the aid of the United States of America and made it appear that the solution to the so-called crisis of the Organization Say in the hands of the Soviet Union and the other socialist States. In addition, the representative of the United Kingdom appealed to the Soviet Union to support what he described as a common effort to achieve — and here I quote from his statement: "... general agreement, to enable the United Nations to escape from its financial difficulties and go forward unencumbered to face the tasks of the future, tasks which we are so anxious to tackle without further delay" [1316th meeting, para. 30], 57.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“Like Zeus, they are hurling down the lightning of their indignation over the question of the so-called financial crisis of the United Nations. They themselves are to blame for this crisis, yet they would like others to share their responsibility and agree to pay for their aggressive campaigns in the Congo and the Near East. 56. Both here within our Organization and outside it, the United States is resorting to various forms of pressure in order to bring the Assembly round to its point of view, which is in flagrant conflict with the Charter of the United Nations.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“The consolidation of the unity of the new United Nations majority on the basis of respect for the principles of the United Nations Charter and the general interests of freedom and peace is both desirable and necessary. The Second Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held at Cairo from 5 to 10 October 1964, was an important step in this direction, and as far as the United Nations is concerned, it recognized "the necessity of enabling it to carry out the functions entrusted to it to preserve international co-operation among States" [A/5763, section IX]. 55. Unfortunately, some States are deliberately attempting, now that the United Nations is arriving at the stage of maturity, to sabotage these functions.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“Even if we forget for the moment about the objective law of the dialectics of development, this quantitative increase can hardly fail to lead to favourable qualitative changes, the outlines of which are already clear. One of the most important aspects of these changes is the rallying together in the United Nations of a new majority which has been particularly prominent in the struggle for the elimination of colonialism and was particularly active at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. It can now be assumed that the time of a mechanically voting majority which worked to the advantage of certain countries is past. We mention this without the slightest malicious joy, for it is inevitable that new faces should sooner or later appear among us and make themselves heard. 54.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“Although the United Nations was born when the war against Hitler was raging and nazism had just been overthrown, it is now growing up in a period marked by the unprecedented rise of national liberation movements throughout the world and the downfall of the colonial system of imperialism. 52. Each country which has become a Member of the United Nations has brought here part of the experience and the wisdom of its people. Each country understands better than any other its own national conditions and peculiarities, its internal problems, and the ways and means by which they may be solved. No country, however, can retreat into its national shell and shun or avoid activities and responsibilities of world significance. 53. The fair winds of change have brought the membership of the United Nations to a total of 115 States.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“The 115 States now represented in the United Nations are evidence of far more than a simple arithmetical increase in the Organization’s membership from the time of its initial San Francisco period. The appearance of new States on the map of this planet of ours, great tracts of which were only a short while ago still tinted with the one horrible colour of colonialism, and the break-through of these States to the banks of the East River in order to take their places in this now somewhat cramped General Assembly hall, represent one of the most vivid and impressive demonstrations of the revolutionary social and economic changes undergone by the world in this great and unique time in which we live.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“The United Nations is confronted with these problems in the year 1965, and it has sufficient experience and resources to consider them with the interests of broad international co-operation in mind. We do not think that the chronic inertia and creeping paralysis of which we hear so much are characteristic of this Organization. Those who value the United Nations in spite of its weaknesses and shortcomings, which they are not afraid to subject to honest criticism, are convinced that it still possesses the vitality and the dynamic force envisaged for it in its Charter. In its less than twenty years of existence, the United Nations has changed not only in size but in nature.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“The past year has left them a legacy of many unresolved matters, and these, together with the new problems which have arisen, form the substance of national and international life. 50. The problems encountered by States, however, are not all of the same character or nature. The agenda of this session of the General Assembly and the stormy meetings of the Security Council on the recent aggression by two NATO member States in the Congo reflect, as though in a mirror, their critical importance, their urgent significance and, let us add, their indissoluble link with the movement of the peoples of the world towards social and economic progress, freedom, national independence, the strengthening of peace and the prevention of thermonuclear war. 51.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“48. Mr. President, we have already had the welcome opportunity of associating our delegation with the expression of deep satisfaction at your election to the lofty office of President of the nineteenth session of the General Assembly, and we should like to express our gratitude to Ambassador Csatorday for being so kind, when he welcomed you in the old year, as to agree to mention the Ukraine as one of the countries on whose behalf he was speaking [1287th meeting]. Now that the General Assembly has resumed the debate in this new year, I wish to assure you that the Ukrainian delegation's congratulations are just as hearty and sincere as ever. 49. People usually bring with them into the new year all their hopes and anxieties, Ina wider sense the same is, of course, true of States and nations.”
1964-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 19 (1964)
“It is the duty of the United Nations to be in the van of the forces defending the cause of peace and promoting the solution of acute international problems in the interests of peace and progress. It only remains to wish the seventeenth session of the United Nations General Assembly success in this field of honour.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“In recalling this, we should like to refer to the words of the Head of the Government of the Soviet Union, Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, who, speaking at the World Congress on General Disarmament and Peace, on 10 July 1962 said: "The ominous situation dictates the need for creating a truly world-wide anti-war union of peoples expressing the will of all social strata and of all the nations of Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Oceania. Only one aim can determine the programme and the whole activity of this genuinely world-wide union of different peace-loving forces — to bar the way to a thermonuclear war, and to place the warmongering maniacs in a state of siege." 151.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“In this connexion, satisfaction is sure to be felt regarding the well-known agreement between Iran and the Soviet Union, under which the Government of Iran will not give any foreign State the right to have rocket-missile bases of any kind on Iranian territory and will never allow Iran to become a means of aggression against the territory of the Soviet Union, This agreement is positive in its significance. 149. Whatever important question we settle here, in one way or another it touches on the problem of peace. To settle the fundamental questions of the contemporary world in such a way as to help strengthen the cause of peace — that is the most important task facing the United Nations today. 150.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The present session is called upon to make an outstanding contribution to the solution of numerous international problems. Many speeches which we have heard here have been very impassioned, and we can sense in them a genuine concern for the solution of the questions under consideration. 146. The position in the world today can leave no one indifferent to the events which are unfolding around us. But the passion which has marked the speeches of delegates in the Assembly in no way conflicts with the need to be reasonable and judicious in the discussion of the concrete questions awaiting solution. 147. A feeling of responsibility for the fate of mankind should be prominent both here in the United Nations and in the relations between States, so that wise solutions can be found for the questions and problems to which life gives rise. 148.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“And precisely for this reason we are concerned that the changes in the membership of the Organization should be reflected in the Secretariat of the United Nations — in its structure, which should reflect the present balance of forces in the world. To say, as is often said from this rostrum, that such changes would mean the death of the United Nations is to state what is not true and to make a profound mistake. 144. The reorganization of the United Nations on the basis of the equal and equitable representation, in its organs, of the three main groups of States now in existence — the socialist countries, the neutralist countries, and the countries belonging to the Western military blocs — is an urgent necessity, dictated by the desirability of still further strengthening this international forum of the peoples. 145.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“We do not agree with those who would like the United Nations to be solely a forum for debates, and we are even more opposed to the United Nations being regarded as a sort of safety-valve for the release of "national emotions". No; we desire that the actions of the Security Council and the recommendations of the General Assembly should really contribute to the solution of the international problems which divide the world. 142. The influx of new States into the United Nations considerably strengthens the Organization and expands its possibilities, changes the situation in it for the better, and creates the necessary basis for the more effective functioning of its organs. 143. There are still, of course, many shortcomings in the work of the United Nations.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The people and Government of the Ukraine have always attached great importance to the United Nations, in whose purposes and principles the aspirations of all peace-loving peoples are embodied. These are the high objectives of peace, of the peaceful coexistence of States, and of the strengthening of co-operation between them. These are the democratic and generally accepted principles of equal rights and of respect for the sovereignty of all States, large and small, and the principles of economic co-operation and progress. 141. The Ukraine has therefore always wished the United Nations to become an effective instrument of peace.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The freeing of resources by disarmament would allow the rate of development to be increased to such an extent that within the next two or three decades it would be possible, basically, to close the present gap between the level of development of the economically advanced and that of the economically backward countries. 139. The delegation of the Ukraine therefore supports the Soviet Union's submission of the item entitled "economic programme for disarmament" [A/5233], and considers that the Soviet draft Declaration concerning the conversion to peaceful needs of the resources released by disarmament [ibid.] deserves the most careful examination by the General Assembly at its present session. 140.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“It is therefore understandable, that the peoples and Governments of these countries should wish to create a sound, independent and developing national economy able to ensure a steady increase in the well-being of the population and the constant strengthening of national independence. 138. In this connexion, attention must be drawn to the truly enormous possibilities which would be opened up for the under-developed countries if the problem of general and complete disarmament were successfully solved. The arms race swallows up incalculable resources. It has been estimated that the total sum spent on military expenditure by all countries is roughly equal to the annual income of all the underdeveloped countries, with a total population of 1,300 million people.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The General Assembly of the United Nations has every reason to condemn the practice of concluding inequitable treaties, to declare lawful the attempt of States to free themselves from obligations arising from treaties of that kind, and to call on States to renounce all forms and methods of establishing unequal international relations. The delegation of the Ukraine would, I should like to say, be among those giving active support to a proposal made in the General Assembly, in that sense. 137. The actual circumstances permitting the imperialists to impose inequitable relations consist, as a rule, in the economic backwardness of former colonial and dependent countries.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The preliminary implementing of the principle of self-determination of peoples is incompatible with the practice of imposing inequitable agreements and establishing inequitable relations among States. The principles underlying the equality of all States and all peoples must become the immutable foundation of international relations. 135. Our delegation noted the statement made yesterday by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Panama, in which he described the Treaty of 1903 between Panama and the United States as "humiliating, injurious, unjust and inequitable" [A/PV.1130] and recalled that it had been concluded at a time "when colonies and the occupation of small countries by powerful ones were common ... in the world". 136.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“In former times, when colonialism was on the attack, swallowing up one country after another, the establishment of inequitable relations was the last step before full enslavement. Now, when colonialism is retreating and falling apart, such relations are becoming the "reserve position" of the colonizers, on which they fall back to maintain their imperialistic domination and economic enslavement of the peoples of other countries. 134. The Charter of the United Nations prescribes the obligation to develop international relations and co-operation on the basis of equal rights for all States and peoples. The Declaration on the granting of independence demands the speedy end of colonialism in all its forms and manifestations.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The imperialists are trying, and sometimes not without success, to replace the old "classical" colonialism with a new colonialism which, while not opposing, and sometimes even gladly recognizing, the formal proclamation of the independence of this or that country, at the same time entangles the country in various kinds of inequitable agreement. In form these are international documents, concluded between sovereign States, and they even speak of "High Contracting Parties". But in substance, as the former President of Guatemala, Mr. Arevalo, put it, one of the parties to such an agreement is the shark and the other is the sardine, destined to be the victim of one of the "High Contracting Parties" — namely, the shark. 133.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“It is no secret that the Katangan secessionists can continue their treacherous policy of splitting the country's unity only because they are backed by powerful international monopolies and Governments of Western Powers, to which the interests of the Congolese people mean nothing but their own greedy desires. Independence, equality and the freedom of peoples have never menaced, and cannot menace, international peace. The whole history of colonialism, on the other hand, is indissolubly linked with wars and bloodshed. 132. Now that they are compelled to refrain from the most odious forms of colonial oppression, the colonizers are trying to fall back on the next line of defence, which consists in various types of inequality, dependence and subjugation of some countries by others.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“It has become fashionable in this regard to refer to the example of the so-called hasty granting of independence to the Republic of the Congo. 131. But there is nothing more fallacious and hypocritical than that argument, if such it can be termed. The continuing tragedy of the Congo is simply a glaring example of crude interference by the colonizers and imperialists in the domestic affairs of new independent States. The cause of the tragedy of the Congolese people lies not in its unpreparedness for independence, but in the imperialist monopolies greedily sucking up the riches of the Congo.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“But the Just cause of the colonial peoples has not yet finally triumphed. Many millions of people in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Oceania are still under the yoke of British, Portuguese, American and other colonizers. They await the help of the United Nations in their struggle. 130. The granting of Independence to many peoples continues to be delayed by the colonizers under the thoroughly and fundamentally false racialist pretext of the alleged inferiority of coloured peoples. It is still affirmed that the granting of independence to colonies without what the colonizers regard as the necessary period of preparation will reduce the newly-formed States to chaos and will turn them into centres for international conflicts.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The people and Government of the Ukraine warmly congratulate the Algerian people on its great victory and wish it success in the building and fruitful development of an independent Algerian Republic, which will obviously soon become a Member of the United Nations. 127. We also welcome the peoples of Burundi, Rwanda, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago, which have achieved rational independence and are now represented in the United Nations. 128. As early as 1946, in the Security Council, the Government of the Ukraine demanded that the colonizers' aggression against Indonesia should cease. Today we are particularly happy to share in the joy of Indonesian people with regard to the complete accomplishment of the territory's liberation from the colonizers and the reuniting of West Irian with free Indonesia. 129.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“It is the duty of all States which fought against Hitler's Germany to draw a line under the Second World War, and to do away with all the traces of it. This corresponds to the vital interests of all peoples and all States. 125. A most important achievement in the cause of ensuring peace and progress is the successful fight of the people for their liberation from the chains of colonialism. Among the notable events of recent times, the victory of the Algerian people stands out sharply. In an unbelievably grim and heroic struggle, it has hewn its way to independence. The victory of Algeria is yet one more proof that the aspiration of oppressed peoples to a free life is stronger than all the weapons of death in the armoury of the colonizers. 126.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“I wish to emphasize that the Ukrainian people, like all the peoples of the socialist countries, regards the borders of the German Democratic Republic as its own and is therefore ready to defend them in company with the others. The German Democratic Republic is a peace-loving State in the centre of Europe. It has never threatened anyone, and is threatening no one. Peace in Europe, and indeed throughout the world, is greatly indebted to the calm and restrained policy of the Government of the German Democratic Republic. 123. There is only one way in which a radical improvement in the situation can be brought about — the conclusion of a German peace treaty and the normalization of the position in West Berlin on the basis of that treaty. 124.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“Developments in West Berlin and the Federal Republic of Germany are in fact following the same course as in Hitler's Germany at the time of its preparation for aggression. And if matters today depended only on the West German militarists, thirsting for revenge, mankind would already have been plunged into a new, bloody and destructive war. 121. However, the militarists and revenge-seekers should always remember that the frontier of the German Democratic Republic in Berlin forms a powerful line of defence against the NATO military base in West Berlin, against those who are preparing for war and are avid for conflict. 122.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“119. Recent events in West Berlin confirm that the occupation regime in this city has become a cover for revenge-seekers and militarists, who are organizing every kind of subversive activity against the Soviet Union and other peace-loving States. The present dangerous situation in West Berlin is a direct result of the policy of the "front-line city" which the occupying Powers, the Federal Republic of Germany and the West Berlin City Senate follow both jointly and separately. 120. West Berlin has been turned into a vast protective camp for numerous espionage and sabotage centres and for militarist and revenge-seeking organizations, into a loudspeaker emitting shameless propaganda for hatred and war.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“Chancellor Adenauer, stating the policy of the Federal Government, has declared that "the Oder-Neisse line is not the eastern frontier of Germany". 118. But while the revenge-seekers in Bonn proclaim that they do not recognize the post-war frontiers, the "provocateurs" in West Berlin systematically violate them, stirring up border conflicts — which involves the danger of an explosion. From August 1961 to the end of May 1962 alone, on the borders of the German Democratic Republic running through West Berlin, 202 cases of damage to frontier installations occurred and fire was opened seventy-eight times, from the West Berlin side, on the frontier posts of the German Democratic Republic, In the period from June to August, the number of incidents increased still further. This is not a harmless game with tin soldiers. This is playing with fire.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“They sang laudatory hymns in honour of the alliance between French reaction and the West German militarists and revenge-seekers — an alliance claiming the right to dictate to Europe, an alliance in which tomorrow certain peoples of Europe would he called upon to act as toy soldiers of a General and a Chancellor lost in dreams of greatness. Rut if the General's dreams of his role as the arbiter of Europe are empty ones, the old lion of Cologne is methodically occupying the strongest positions in the so-called "Europe of the fatherlands". 117. At the moment one thing is clear: these processions and parades give encouragement to the revenge-seekers and militarists of Bonn. But they, like all aggressors, scorn the principles of the national sovereignty, and integrity of the frontiers of other States.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“They are trying under any pretext to put their finger on the atomic trigger, on the basis either of NATO's conversion into "a fourth nuclear Power" or of "nuclear partnership" with the United States (and perhaps with France too) — in short, on any suitable basis. 116. We in the Ukraine, of course, took note of the military parades at Mourmelon and the processions on the banks of the Rhine in connexion with the visit of the President of France to West Germany. We were not surprised that there were groups of people, specially hired to form a crowd which had gathered spontaneously, looking like members of an operatic chorus — always, it seemed, dying of boredom and thinking only of how not to miss the next tram. They, so we are told, sang "Deutschland über Alles" with greater gusto than the "Marseillaise".”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The Government of the Ukraine has instructed its delegation once again to express its deep concern at the reappearance of a dangerous source of war in the very centre of Europe, not far from the western frontiers of the Soviet Union. 114. West Germany's frenzied accumulation of material means of waging war and the intensive psychological preparation of the West German population for revenge have become a source of constant military danger for the peoples of Europe, including the Ukrainian people. 115. We cannot observe with indifference the sabre- rattling to the West of the Elbe, we cannot watch impassively the thirst and persistence with which the German militarists and revenge-seekers are striving to obtain atomic weapons.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“These amendments provide that, when the means of delivering nuclear weapons are destroyed at the first stage, the United States and, of course, the Soviet Union will retain such means of defence against violation of the treaty as a strictly limited and agreed number of intercontinental missiles and certain other types of missile. This new initiative bears witness to the sincere desire of the Soviet Government to find a common language with the Western Powers and to work out the agreement on general and complete disarmament which the peoples have so long awaited. 112. It is essential for disarmament problems to be discussed in the General Assembly, and we may hope that the participation of all States Members of the United Nations in this discussion will be fruitful. 113.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“Yet through the fault of the Western Powers the Eighteen-Nation Committee has not taken the really radical steps which would have led to the preparation and signature of a treaty on general and complete disarmament. 110. While refraining at the present time from an exhaustive appraisal of the documents of the Eighteen- Nation Committee, the Ukrainian delegation would lay particular stress on the fact that the core of the Soviet plan for general and complete disarmament is the prohibition and complete abolition of nuclear weapons. On the other hand, the core of the Western outline for a treaty is the establishment of control over armaments — in other words, treaty sanction for the arms race. 111. The Soviet Union has introduced amendments into its draft treaty.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“Unfortunately, as has already been pointed out from this rostrum by the USSR Minister for Foreign Affairs, Andrei Andreevich Gromyko [1127thmeeting], the negotiating machinery for general and complete disarmament, namely the Eighteen-Nation Committee, is still idling. The report of the Eighteen-Nation Committee to the General Assembly [A/5200] is remarkably laconic, for apart from references to certain documents and a description of the Committee's procedure it contains nothing of substance on the problem of general and complete disarmament. Last year we duly considered the Joint Statement of Agreed Principles for Disarmament Negotiations. These principles were regarded as a small step, but a step in the right direction.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“A nuclear missile war would bring death and suffering to hundreds of millions of people, and even the countries not taking a direct part in the armed conflict or not involved in the military conflagration would be affected by its consequences. 108. The peoples hope and believe that the lightning of nuclear war will not flash over the shores of rivers, seas and oceans. They need peace in order to labour, to rejoice, to live. The highway to a lasting peace is general and complete disarmament, and the world is ready for general and complete disarmament. Furthermore, the world cannot afford not to disarm. 109.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“Sages, politicians and the prophets of doom in propaganda agencies preach a doctrine of despair and inevitability, asserting that the arms race cannot be stopped and that nuclear catastrophe cannot be averted. Before our eyes, the America of skyscrapers is being invited to bury itself as deep as possible underground, in concrete caves, as if shelters worthy of prehistoric man were capable of replacing so genuine and reliable an anti-atomic device as peace. Nonetheless, these people can never take the Americans back to the time when the oceans served as a kind of gigantic, impassable moat of water around their continent, around their home. Given the modern potential of rocket weapons, the seas and oceans which in former times effectively separated one continent from another have, as it were, contracted.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“Nothing, absolutely nothing, should prevent the States which possess nuclear weapons from undertaking, as an initial step towards the banning of nuclear weapons, the solemn obligation not to be the first to use them, A weighty pronouncement by the United Nations, in the form of approval of the USSR draft resolution [A/5232], would have far-reaching beneficial consequences and would undoubtedly dispel the anxiety engendered among the peoples by propaganda for a preventive nuclear war. 107. We also cannot ignore the fact that the arms race whipped up by the Governments of the United States and other NATO countries is being accompanied by psychological conditioning of the American people.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The Ukrainian Government condemns the doctrine of preventive nuclear war as aggressive, irreconcilably contrary to the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations Charter and to the interests of the maintenance of peace, and incompatible with the honour and conscience of mankind. The Ukrainian delegation resolutely advocates the condemnation by the United Nations of propaganda for a preventive nuclear war.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“Stevenson's advice, this should cause no anxiety to representatives in the General Assembly, We are invited to make unctious speeches, to avoid sharp corners and to conceal the truth from the peoples, while the United States of America flouts the United Nations Charter, fosters tension in various parts of the world, and creates a threat of thermo-nuclear war. 105. The conscience of the world was quite recently shaken by a statement from the President of the United States of America to the effect that in certain circumstances the United States might take the initiative in a nuclear conflict, 106.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“As pointed out in the note [of 19 September 1962] from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam to the President of the seventeenth session of the General Assembly, the United States Government has created in that area of the world a hotbed of dangerous, even highly dangerous tension, which threatens the peace and security of the peoples of Indo-China and South-East Asia. In February 1962, a United States Command was set up at Saigon, to head not only the United States armed forces in South Viet-Nam and their puppets, but also United States armed forces in neighbouring Thailand. Is there any need to stress that what is in process here is the expansion of United States armed intervention in this region, carefully planned and organized in the Pentagon? But, if we follow Mr.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The economic blockade of revolutionary Cuba, organized by the United States of America, will meet with crushing and shameful failure. Cuba has friends, and they have extended to it a helping hand. The friends of the Cuban people will not be intimidated by American threats! 104. Now let us turn to another part of our planet — to South Viet-Nam. There, the United States Government, crudely violating the sovereignty and independence of Viet-Nam, is conducting an "undeclared war" in which 10,000 American officers and men are taking part.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“It has become known that the Puerto Rican authorities confiscated over 9,000 tons of sugar which was being sent to the USSR from Cuba on the British vessel, Streatham Hill. Such acts by the United States border on piracy on the high seas, and merit the most resolute condemnation. 102. Quite recently it has become known that certain circles are nurturing plans whereby the United States shall cease giving aid to countries trading with Cuba. Does this not represent crude pressure upon these countries? What can be the outcome of this dictatorial and arbitrary policy? 103. It can produce only one result — further conflict in the trade lanes to Cuba, further dislocation of international trade, and, finally, further aggravation of tension in the world, although this tension is already too great.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)