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Perez Perez

THE RECORD WRITES THIS SPEAKER AS PEREZ PEREZ

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1953-09-24
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1955-09-24
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  1. “The dilemma with which this Assembly is faced is delicate and dangerous, for the means of defence would always be inadequate if, in addition to our present problems, new problems were to arise as a result of the interruption or impairment of the pacific measures which have been employed to prevent possible sources of discontent and violence from being used and exploited by international subversive agitation. First and foremost, among the potential sources of discontent is poverty, due to backward methods of production, and particularly the catastrophic disproportion between the rates of increase of population and of food production.”

    1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)

  2. “To accept conditions inspired by this claim would be tantamount to permitting an inadmissible revision of the Charter, for it would imply that the Charter could be set aside every time an aggressor demanded, as the price of peace, that the principles laid down in this collective treaty should be disregarded. 167. My delegation recognizes the vital needs that these circumstances have created for the more, highly industrialized countries. The inherent right of self-defence is sanctioned in one of the basic provisions of our Charter, Article 51.”

    1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)

  3. “The United Nations, which represents the sum total of the different political trends in the modem world, had only one aim in view: to impede the progress of violence as a means of attaining advantages. Notwithstanding this, the other side appears to be prompted by the determination to claim a victory, not only over those countries which contributed with their forces to the action in Korea, but also over the fifty-one Member States which qualified the attack on the Republic of Korea as an act of aggression and, what is worse, over the Charter itself.”

    1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)

  4. “If, then, we delay action for the simultaneous settlement of all the points at issue which form what the Secretary-General calls in his memorandum “the East-West conflict”, we shall be at the mercy of vague general formulas which, though they may appear adequate at first glance, will be open to perpetual differences of interpretation. 165. Moreover, as the great majority of the Member States noted in the recent debates at the end of the seventh session, one of the most constructive results of the Korean armistice and one that was most in keeping with the Charter was that it could not be inferred from the text of the agreement that either side was the victor or the vanquished. 166.”

    1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)

  5. “It is the under-developed countries which would suffer most directly from such a postponement, for it would be a direct blow to the countries needing assistance from abroad, among which, first and foremost, are the peoples of Asia and Africa. The industrially developed States, seeing their security imperilled, feel that, in view of the magnitude of the threat, any precaution they may take is justified. 164. It has been clearly established in the reports of the Disarmament Commission that the prerequisite for the regulation, limitation and balanced reduction of all armed forces and all armaments lies in the relaxation of international tension. We know where the focal points of international tension are and we are well aware that the most immediate danger lies in Korea.”

    1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)

  6. “Later developments, however, are tending to change the hopeful atmosphere which then prevailed and are giving grounds for apprehension that the brief relaxation of international tension which appeared to be setting in last July may be coming to an end. It would be a pity if this eighth session of the Assembly should have to complete its deliberations in the same atmosphere that has hung over the United Nations since 1950. 163. These developments are related to the new conditions which the Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China and the authorities of North Korea are putting to the United Nations and which threaten to delay once again the settlement of this question which is so fraught with dangers for world peace.”

    1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)

  7. “161. Among the resolutions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its sixteenth session, held recently in Geneva, was resolution 482 A (XVI). In part II of that resolution, the Council recommends that the General Assembly should consider, at its eighth session, a draft text whereby Member States would declare themselves prepared to ask their peoples, “when sufficient progress has been made in internationally supervised worldwide disarmament, to devote a portion of the savings achieved through such disarmament to an international fund, within the framework of the United Nations, to assist development and reconstruction in under-developed countries”. 162. At the time the resolution was adopted, a justifiable feeling of optimism was reigning in Geneva and in the world at large, arising from the recent signing of the Korean armistice.”

    1953-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 8 (1953)