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PALAMARCHUK

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first: 1954-09-24
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“The point here is that the social and political changes that have taken place in the life of this courageous people are not to the liking of the ruling circles of the United States, which consider themselves entitled to put an end to these developments by crude, unreasoning and arbitrary force! 100. As we can see, the behaviour of the United States in regard to little Cuba is in striking contrast with the words of the Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations, who called upon all nations to "stay their hands in pursuit of national ambitions" and to settle problems through the "impartial ... instrument of quiet diplomacy". Is this not so? 101. The United States perpetrated another arbitrary act the other day, this time against the Soviet Union.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“But since international law is not on the side of the United States, there is dragged into the light of day the rubbish, covered with the dust of ages, which goes by the name of the Monroe Doctrine. To the same end, wild inventions, lacking any kind of verisimilitude, are thought up to serve as pretexts for aggression against Cuba. 99. And why is all this happening? The consideration here is not even that "change [should not be] sought at the expense of peace", as Mr. Stevenson put it; for the change has already taken place. The Cuban people has already chosen its path towards development and, with the support of its many friends, has strength and courage enough to uphold its right to freedom and independence.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The newspaper further stated that Lieutenant Colonel Brewster and his Marines would perhaps be the first American troops to land on Fidel Castro's territory, if the Cuban crisis entered the "hot stage". But since this entry of the "hot stage" does not depend on peace- loving Cuba, which harbours no such intentions, the word "if" is used here simply in order to preserve a fictitious and entirely superficial vagueness. Some people are not in the least disturbed by the fact that oral attacks against Cuba are really also directed against the United Nations, against its Charter which provides that nations should live in peace with one another, and against the sovereign right of peoples to choose their own way of life.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“Almost at the very time when the United States representative to the United Nations was expounding from this rostrum, with a calm obviously designed for effect, the views of the United States Government on international problems and on the tasks of the United Nations, at Washington, as we know, decisions were being taken which prescribed the use of any means, including armed force, to settle accounts with Cuba. After that, according to the New York Journal- American of 22 September 1962, the Fibron landing unit under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Brewster was sent on a three-month tour of combat duty to the Caribbean. It consisted of a Marine battalion of 1,600 men prepared to reach Cuba in a few hours, of helicopters, tanks and special naval vessels. The whole unit comprised 3,200 men.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The American Press, radio and television have referred to this statement almost as a sort of carefully weighed gesture of conciliation, or even as a kind of lifebelt with which the United States seeks to rescue the world from the gulf of the "cold war". 97. Is this really so? Does Mr. Stevenson's speech, outwardly so smooth and so peace-making in its intent, really reflect the nature of the policy of the United States as a policy of peaceful coexistence? Unfortunately, no. 98.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“He warned us, admittedly in somewhat nebulous terms, against "the resolution which invokes high principle in support of unrealistic action and does nothing to advance a practical solution". While recognizing that "indignation and outrage have been powerful enemies of injustice since the beginning of history", Mr. Stevenson called upon the General Assembly to exercise rational impartiality, which would in practice border upon static indifference — as though the agenda of the seventeenth session, which as we know is replete with international problems requiring urgent solution, were nothing but a routine list of book-keeping entries. 96.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“At the same time, it is impossible to ignore, with naive simplicity or light-heartedness, certain circumstances which are highly dangerous from the standpoint of creating the fundamental condition for mankind's active life, namely peace on earth. 95. The other day we heard here a statement by the representative of the United States of America. Mr. Stevenson appealed to participants in the Assembly to conduct "quiet diplomacy" [1125th meeting] and asserted that the General Assembly could not work fruitfully if it proceeded in the manner of "a protest demonstration in a public square" and if the quality of its debates was "debased by propaganda or by speeches".”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“In our times, man is blazing the trail to the stars and his bold thought is penetrating the most secret mysteries of nature. Delegates to the seventeenth session of the United Nations General Assembly will surely understand our feelings if I tell them of the rejoicing which recently swept through the whole of the Ukraine when its son of the stars, Pavel Popovich, together with Andrian Nikolaev, coursed through outer space for several days. Penetration of the cosmos by courageous sons of Earth symbolizes for us the unconquerable power of the mind which, when directed towards the well-being of mankind, is capable of extraordinary and even fabulous exploits. 94. The world is indeed witnessing a wealth of events which give grounds for an optimistic view of the future.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“Viewed in the correct historical perspective, the matter may be put as follows: promoting progressive changes in the world means promoting the strengthening of peace. This may be exemplified by Africa and Asia, Algeria, Cuba and West Irian. Dangerous conflicts always arise in places where old, reactionary and outdated forces try to raise obstacles in the path of new, growing and progressive forces and attempt to stand in the way of changes necessitated by life itself. Since peace is indeed above all else indispensable to the peoples, it is the duty of States Members of the United Nations conscientiously to remove obstacles from the path of progressive changes which can no longer be put off. 93. The achievements of peace and progress are clearly reflected in today's triumphs of the human mind.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The swelling of the Organization's ranks reflects both the just principles of life and, in the last analysis, the steady expansion of the forces which are defending the cause of peace and human progress. 92. We cannot fail to perceive the main trend of mankind's development, whereby, with a steady overcoming of the most complex contradictions in social and international life, disputes are being solved and the triumph of progressive principles is being ensured. Here, of course, there can be no conflict between the maintenance of peace and progressive changes throughout the world. We cannot agree with those who say that "change [should not be] sought at the expense of peace, which is needed above all".”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The Government of the Ukraine sincerely welcomes every event in international life which heralds the inexorable approach of the day when all peoples without exception, having destroyed forever the shameful system of colonialism, wall take their places in the ranks of the free nations. The process of decolonization which is taking place before our eyes shows that historic necessity is, despite everything, driving steadily forward, and that the Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples, adopted at the fifteenth session of the United Nations General Assembly [resolution 1514 (XV)], is a genuine reflection of the peoples' aspirations and of the requirements of life itself. We are not alarmed, like some, but rejoice at the increase in the membership of the United Nations.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The situation which has arisen in the world may be assessed in different ways, just as there can be different approaches to appraising the actions of various forces and States on the international scene. However, the essential criterion of such assessment, the real test of the objectives of their policy and their actions, is the attainment of the social development of all mankind and its salvation from nuclear war. From that point of view the socialist States, which include the Ukraine, represent "a shield which reliably defends the cause of world progress". 91.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“Our delegation associates itself with the congratulations that have been expressed from this rostrum on the occasion of the election of the distinguished representative of Pakistan to the high office of President of the General Assembly's seventeenth session. 89. The minute of silence with which every regular session of the United Nations General Assembly traditionally opens is, of course, too short to allow our minds to range over all the many complicated problems of international life. But at least it serves to remind us of the immense responsibility with which the peoples have invested the United Nations as an instrument of peace and security. 90.”
1962-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 17 (1962)
“The programme of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is not only a great document of work for the happiness of man; it is also a manifesto for peace. It solemnly proclaims that "... the Communist Party of the Soviet Union regards it as the main aim of its foreign policy to guarantee peaceful conditions for the construction of a communist society in the USSR and the development of a world system of socialism and, together with all the peaceful peoples, to free mankind from a world war of extermination". 284. Work produces all that is needed for human life. Peace preserves all the wealth created by man, and mankind itself, from the conflagration of war. We call upon all countries and peoples to unite their efforts in the struggle for peace, the struggle for out happy future.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“Of course, figures are a little boring, but these particular ones are as music to our ears and reflect the majestic rhythm of our progress towards the building of a communist society. 282. We are firmly convinced that shoulder to shoulder with the other peoples of the Soviet Union, we shall succeed in coping with all the .tasks we have set ourselves. As the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukraine, N. V. Podgorny, said at the twelfth congress of the Party; "We are proud of the fact that our successes go to swell the single mighty current of the great victories of the entire Soviet people in the building of communism, that they add to the glory and power of the whole socialist camp... 283.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“That is the fundamental basis from which we shall embark on implementing the twenty-year plan for laying the foundations of a communist society in which every man will labour according to his abilities and receive according to his needs. 280. That is a programme holding out—I would say . embracing—prospects. For instance, by 1980 the Ukraine will be producing 75 million tons of steel, 62 million tons of pig iron and 60.5 million tons of rolling mill products; it will have an output of 160 million tons of iron ore and 290 million tons of coal. The volume of industrial production will increase six fold, and the output of the machine industry thirteen-fold. The grain crop will be 2.5 times, meat production 3.6 times and milk production 2.7 times greater. 281.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“The Ukrainian people is one of the builders of this society of brotherhood and true friendship between nations and peoples. Its flowing energy is directed towards creative construction, towards peace, the greatest blessing in the world and in life. 278. Today the Ukraine is in the economic sense one of the most highly developed countries. I would like to give you just a few figures. By the end of 1963, the first year of the twenty-year development plan of the Soviet Union, the metallurgical industry of the Ukraine will produce 28 million tons of steel and 26 million * tons of pig Iron, while the pits and mines will have an output of 170 million tons of coal and 64 million tons of iron ore. Our industry manufactures almost all types of modern machinery. We have gathered in a very fine harvest from our fields. 279.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“As Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev has said, the Soviet Government has been doing, and will do, everything possible to ensure that the Soviet people and the peoples of all countries emerge from this difficult time without war. 273. The different peoples of the world have one very lofty aim in common—the maintenance of peace. The extremely bitter struggle that reactionary and aggressive forces are waging against peace, against freedom and independence, is a reminder that the struggling peoples have one common enemy: imperialism and. colonialism. 277. The purpose of man's life is not war and ruin, but peace and construction. The socialist republics of the Soviet Union, following the new programme drafted by the Communist Party, will erect the mighty structure of communism—a society of freedom and equality, of peace and labour.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“When the time comes to compute the results of the stormy year of 1961, mankind will note that its progressive development has been raised a step higher and that its horizons for the future have broadened. 274. Most of the people on earth are directly interested in peace. That is why, in the Assembly, every means must be used to paralyse aggressive movements in those countries where monopolies are closely associated with war industry and for which the arms race is nothing but an enormous and continuing business deal. 275. The international situation is heated and fraught with dangers. But peace can, and must, be preserved— if all those on whom the fate of the world depends will 1 display common sense and an understanding of their responsibility to mankind to those who are alive today and will be alive tomorrow. 276.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“The Ukrainian Government regards it as one of the most important tasks of the United Nations to secure, the immediate implementation of the Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples. We are confident that, when it discusses the situation with regard to the implementation of the Declaration—a question placed on the agenda of the present session at the proposal of the Soviet Union delegation—the General Assembly will work out and approve the measures required to help the peoples put a speedy and final end to the colonial order of things. 272. The world is full of alarms, anxieties, exciting achievements and projects.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“The Belgian and other foreign colonizers have now concentrated their efforts in Katanga and are trying, with the help of their mercenary and hanger-on Tshombe, to grab from the Congolese people that very rich storehouse of Africa. 270. In West Irian, the Netherlands is trying to achieve the same objective though in another way, as eloquently described from this rostrum by the Indonesian Minister for Foreign Affairs. Under the plausible pretext of "self-determination", it is preparing to snatch from Indonesia an original, integral part of Indonesian territory. Nevertheless, whatever kind of oxygen masks may be used for prolonging the life of the colonial world, nothing will avail to avert its inevitable collapse. 271.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“The artificial accentuation of international tension, in addition to justifying the arms race in the eyes of the world, makes it easier for the colonial Powers to delay the c disintegration of the colonial system and the implementation of the Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples. The capitalist monopolies still hope that, as before, they will be able to exploit the wealth and toil of the peoples of the countries which are being liberated from foreign domination. 269. The real reason for the still unfinished tragedy of the Congo lies precisely in the efforts being made to preserve the sources of the big foreign monopolies' wealth and to safeguard their privileges.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“The local government in the Federation of Rhodesia is following a policy of completely transforming the country into a State of white colonizers on the model of South Africa. 268. What is the conclusion to be drawn from the intensifying of military preparations and the strengthening and expansion of the military bases of the colonial Powers in Africa and Asia, where more than half the armed forces of France and the United Kingdom, as well as United States troops, are now stationed? it hardly means that they are preparing in this way to help the peoples of these continents to attain and consolidate their national independence!”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“Events since the fifteenth session of the General Assembly have shown that the bloc of the Western Powers is doing everything possible to prolong the life of stricken colonialism. France continues, as before, the war of extermination against the heroic Algerian people. Encouraged by the moral and material backing of their NATO allies, the Portuguese colonizers have organized orgies of bloodshed in Angola. British bombs are raining down on the heads of the inhabitants of Oman and Hadramaut. Reprisals continue to be taken against the fighters for freedom and independence in the Belgian Trust Territory of Ruanda-Urundi, in Mozambique, in South West Africa, in Uganda and in other colonial possessions.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“In the course of it, the number of independent African States more than doubled. Recently, the former British colony of Sierra Leone entered the family of that continent's liberated States. On behalf of the Ukrainian Government, I congratulate the people of Sierra Leone on the creation of its own independent State and its entry into the United Nations. 266. Nevertheless, colonialism in its " classical form" still exists on territory more than twice as large as that of the United States. Fifty million Africans, 10 million people in Asia, 7 million people on the American continent and more than 3 million inhabitants of Oceania await the hour when the last colonial shackles will fall. .267.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“The resolution, adopted at the fifteenth session of the United Nations General Assembly, containing the Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples [A/1514 (XV)] was an expression of the demand of all mankind that an end be put to the most shameful phenomenon of our time— Colonialism—in all its forms and manifestations. That decision was evidence of the desire of an absolute majority of countries that the United Nations should move with the times and help the peoples in their struggle against the colonial slavery set up by the imperialist Powers. 265. The powerful wave of national-liberation revolutions is sweeping the colonial system away. After the Second World War, the peoples of more than fifty countries gained national independence. The year 1960 was rightly called the "year of Africa".”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“The measures taken by the socialist countries as a riposte to the aggressive threats of the United States, the United Kingdom and France help, us to feel confident that the militarists will not utterly lose their common sense but will come to a halt, since they will be faced with the probability of nuclear destruction-for a grave is not the life aim even of inveterate atomic enthusiasts. 263. We would like to hope that the anxiety about the resumption of tests, which has been voiced here by a number of speakers, will be converted into a useful propellant force aimed at achieving agreement on general and complete disarmament. In present circumstances, the proposal to solve the problem of the suspension of nuclear tests on the basis of complete and general disarmament is the only correct and realistic one. 264.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“The resumption of nuclear weapon tests was a necessary step, if the world was not to fall a victim to war. 261. The bitter experience of history teaches us that mere pacifist appeals for peace have never halted the aggressors. The socialist countries consider it their sacred duty to point out, not only that we are wholeheartedly striving for peace, but that we are ready to defend it with all our might. And the strengthening of this might is in the interests not only of the peoples of the socialist community but of all those who have the cause of peace at heart. 262.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“All this cannot but serve to make us alive to the fact that, in agreeing to disarmament principles, the United States is trying to interpret these provisions so as to give them a content alien to genuine disarmament. 260. The aggressive policy of the Western Powers, which has recently received unprecedented strengthening placed the USSR and the other socialist countries before an inescapable choice. It was a harsh choice, but the only possible one. The Soviet people endorsed the step taken by our Government. There was only one thing to do: to take all the necessary steps to be fully prepared, militarily, to render an aggressor impotent if he tried to engage in an attack. One such measure is the decision, which has been taken, to carry out experimental explosions of nuclear weapons.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“Moreover, the question of liquidating intercontinental ballistic missiles and cosmic rockets, and establishing control over them, cannot be considered apart from the question of liquidating military bases on foreign territories. It is quite understandable that, if States came to an agreement on liquidating the means of delivering atomic weapons but some of them objected to liquidating their bases on foreign territories, suspicion might be engendered that they really had no intention of fulfilling their obligations concerning destruction of the means of delivery and were expecting to abstract those means from control in order to use them for aggressive ends. 259.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“Or, let us look at another agreed principle: that all disarmament measures should be balanced "so that at no stage of the implementation of the treaty could any State or group of States gain military advantage and that security is ensured equally for all". Is this provided for in the new United States programme? We are convinced that it is not. On the contrary, the programme in fact provides for unilateral military advantages of the United States. What other interpretation can be placed on the fact that the ban on the sending into orbit, or the placing in space, of weapons of mass destruction is included in the first stage, and the abolition of military bases in the second? 258.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“In the meantime we, once we have agreed to these extremely limited and, to be quite frank, illusory measures of the first stage, are" Invited to accept the principle of control over the remaining armaments and armed forces. In other words, we are, figuratively speaking, offered 5 per cent disarmament with 100 per cent control. Yet in the agreed principles it is stated that "the nature and extent of such control depend... on the requirements for verification of the disarmament measures being carried out in each stage"; in other Words, the scope of control should be in strict conformity with the character of the disarmament measures executed, But the very first stage of the United States programme shows that, in it, this very important and agreed principle is not taken into account. 257.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“You can control armaments as much as you like without thereby lessening, in the slightest degree, the threat of war; on the contrary, that threat will even grow since control of armaments,, control without 'disarmament, will become espionage, a weapon for intelligence activities, and merely play into the hands of those contemplating and making ready for aggression. 256. We have also noticed that no dates are set, in the programme, for tile execution of the various measures. It might be that the first stage (where it talks, in particular, of reducing the armed forces of the USSR and the United States to 2.1 million men, and mentions other obviously not very important measures) would be protracted for an indefinitely long period and then nothing more would happen.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“To begin with, may I refer to The New York Times of 1 October. This paper wrote, with reference to the new United States programme, that its novelty resided mainly in its terminology—in other respects this plan calls for more or less the same approach as that called for by previous Western disarmament proposals—many people in this hall know very well that that approach was basically wrong, for it meant control without disarmament, control before disarmament, control over armaments. It is quite understandable that such an approach could not contribute to an agreement on general and complete disarmament.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“The United States' insistent demand that control should guarantee not only that the agreed limitations or reductions are carried into effect, but also that the remaining armed forces and armaments would never at any stage exceed the agreed levels, left an unfavourable impression. According to the statement of the United States representative, this thesis constitutes the key factor in the position of the United States. But in this demand we discern only one thing—that control of armaments is still the key element in the position of the United States. 255. Our delegation is making a study of the new American disarmament programme [A/4891] which the President of the United States, Mr. Kennedy, has tabled for consideration at this session. We would like, for the present, to make a few preliminary comments.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“254; Now, as the upshot of an exchange of views between the Soviet Union and the United States on disarmament problems, we have before us the "Joint statement of agreed principles for disarmament negotiations" [A/4879]. That is a small but good beginning; but this infant project may wither away, even before the first step is taken, and the structure of disarmament outlined in these joint principles may turn out to be a mirage. That is the real danger; it lies in the fact that during the discussions it was impossible to eliminate the basic difference—whether negotiations were to be about general and complete disarmament with effective control, or about control of armaments. The Soviet Union advocates the former and the United States the latter cause.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“For the Government of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, as for the Governments of all the socialist countries, general and complete disarmament is an international problem which must be solved without further delay. 2153, Nowadays, this problem can be described not only as an important and urgent one but also as a problem which is obviously ripe for solution. Although the last General Assembly session could not, because of the stand adopted by the West, take a positive step forward, it did show an increase in the strength and activity of those forces which favour the issue of clear and precise directives for negotiations on a treaty of general and complete disarmament.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“The great People's Republic of China must be represented here by its lawful Government, the sole expression of the will of China's 700 million people. 250. At this session the Mongolian People's Republic too, should be admitted to membership of the United Nations. ,251. Another example of the way in which the United States defies the principles of peaceful coexistence is its aggressive policy towards revolutionary Cuba. Economic blockade, arson and subversive acts, the landing of mercenaries—such are the practical instruments of this policy. The Government of the United States must, therefore, be called upon to respect, not in words but in deeds, the will of the people. 252.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“The Western Powers, with the United States at their hand, are trying to turn this Organization into a tool of their own foreign policy. j 249. In so doing, they sometimes reach a point of such Absurdity that policy becomes no more than petty intriguing, a complete mockery of common sense, 'is there, for instance, one single person, even in the governing circles of the Western countries, who believes that the Chiang Kai-shek faction represents a great Power and should sit here in the United Nations? Yet that is a fact which vividly depicts the attitude of the Western Powers, and especially the United States, to the People's Republic of China and, in point of fact, to the United Nation? itself. We categorically declare that there can be no further toleration of such a violation of the United Nations Charter.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“The historic struggle between the old and the new system, between socialism and capitalism, must be settled not by world war but by peaceful competition—competition to determine which social system achieves the higher level in the economic, technological and cultural fields and ensures the best living conditions for the people at large." 247. From this there is only one, and possibly even quite a small, moral to be drawn: if you wish to avoid finding yourself in an embarrassing situation, you should treat important documents, and quote and interpret them, with a sense of responsibility. 248. The reluctance of the NATO States to base their relations with other countries on the principle of peaceful coexistence continues to exert a negative influence on United Nations activities also.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“He did not, however, quote this Declaration; he did not, that is, give the reference on which* he based on conclusions. And this is no mere coincidence, for in fact there is nothing even remotely similar in the Declaration. As regards the aims of the socialist countries, the Congress of Representatives of Communist and Workers' Parties, in its appeal to the peoples of the world, defined those aims in the following terms: "The goal of each socialist country individually, and of the socialist community as a whole, is to ensure a lasting peace for all peoples. Socialism has no need of war.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“Certain other political leaders in NATO countries, attacking the principles of peaceful coexistence, refer to it irritably as "the most sterile and negative conception of international life". These are the words used by the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom. 246. What was it he did not like about peaceful coexistence? According, to him, one-third of the world— and here he apparently means the socialist countries-was devoting itself to destroying the way of life of the other two-thirds—meaning, apparently, the capitalist countries. He affirmed that he had re-invented" (to use his own words) this piece of nonsense but had found it in the Declaration of a Congress of Representatives of Communist and Workers Parties held at Moscow.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“The Ukrainian delegation cannot but view the attitude of the Western Powers as one of deliberately maintaining a dangerous situation in Europe, an attitude that is alien to the interests of peace, 244. The Soviet proposals on the German problem are calculated to ensure the existence of the two German States and, not to put it too highly, the peaceful co-existence of States with different social and political systems in Europe and throughout the world. It is no mere chance that the opponents of a peace settlement with Germany are, at the same time, the opponents of the ideas and principles of peaceful coexistence and of their translation into practice. 245. Chancellor Adenauer, for instance, calls peaceful coexistence an illusion and is even worried because the idea has been "too widely disseminated".”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“This is what the Soviet Union and all our socialist countries call upon the Western Powers to do. In the words of the Head of the Soviet Government, Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev: "We want to clear away the remnants of the Second World War, to cleanse the atmosphere in Europe and so throughout the world, in Order that all peoples of the world may breathe clean air, that countries may live as good neighbours, establishing relations of peace with each other, and that the peoples may live free from the fear of war." . 243. Unfavourable critics of the Soviet draft peace treaty describe it as "fatal to peace", as I have already said; but, strangely enough, they themselves put forward no proposals of their own for a peace settlement with Germany.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“Nevertheless Germany started those world wars, and in each of them aggression and the conquest of "liebensraum", as well as the notorious "Drang nach Osten", were presented as "self-determination of the German nation". Today people in Bonn talk of the "self-determination" of the German Democratic Republic; but tomorrow, as the experience of history shows, there will emerge a threat to the national sovereignty of Austria, Switzerland, Italy and other countries where a German-speaking population has "determined itself" outside the frontiers of Federal Germany. 242. The essence of the German problem, therefore, is to guarantee lasting peace in Europe—to prevent the German militarists from plunging the world, under any pretext whatsoever, into the gulf of a new nuclear war of extermination.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“That is the view of the problem taken by those who subscribe to Adenauer's fallacious theories. The Foreign Minister of Ecuador made it quite clear to us that self-determination for Germans in the German Democratic Republic is to be interpreted as a change in "the special status in the Eastern zone"— in other words, the liquidation of the socialist system in Eastern Germany. 241. Like all the peoples of Europe, the Ukrainian people well know, from their own experience, the meaning attached by the German imperialists to the term "self-determination". The Germans had self-determination in regard to the composition of their State on the eve of both world wars.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“So far, however, the Western Powers have refused, or are still refusing, to recognize the existence of the German Democratic Republic, although it is a sovereign State, maintains diplomatic, trade and cultural relations with many countries in the world, and—a point to be specially emphasized—is practising a peaceful foreign policy. The reason for this, of course, is simply that the Western Powers feel no sympathy, or (to put it more correctly) cherish hostile feelings towards the new social system in East Germany; but this has no connexion with the problem of self-determination. 240. As Adenauer sees it, self-determination means the absorption of the German Democratic Republic by the Federal Republic of Germany and the removal of the social structure built up in the German Democratic Republic.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“To play about with the slogan of self-determination for the German nation when there already exist two independent German States is a very primitive trick. Today, the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany do not differ on the national issue; they are separated by profound differences in their internal ways of life; in other words, they are separated by deep social differences. To try to set the "self-determination" slogan up in reply to struggles within nations is to juggle with concepts. If it is a question of social structure— and this is precisely what is at stake in connexion with the formation of two independent German States-then these States have already made their choice.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“It goes without saying that the question of the status of West Berlin will have to be decided, its social and economic structure and freedom of communications with all countries being maintained and respect for the sovereignty of the German Democratic Republic being ensured. West Berlin must contribute to peaceful coexistence in Europe, and not serve as a powder-keg or a place where a short-circuit might occur. 239. There is another trick whereby Adenauer and the Governments of the Western Powers hope to obstruct peace settlement with Germany. This is the speculation hazarded around the slogan of "self-determination for the German people". It is, however, an immutable fact that the German people has found its own self-determination in the form of two States" the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“In order to deceive public opinion they are deliberately and maliciously making no mention of the draft peace treaty, are trying to minimize its importance, and are simultaneously stimulating war hysteria about West Berlin to a dangerous degree. 237. The delegation of the Ukrainian SSR would like once again to emphasize, from this rostrum, that the important thing is a German peace treaty, I repeat the main thing is a German peace treaty; and the USSR proposal to convert West Berlin into a Free City means nothing more than that the Soviet Union is ready to settle this problem on the basis of a German peace treaty. 238.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)