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1963-09-24

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1963-09-24

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1. “These are everyday and ever-present threats which must be removed if we are to have real peace —a peace which would ensure the conditions of life for which mankind is so sincerely and deeply yearning. 8. And can it be claimed that everything that has been said from this rostrum during this debate has been designed to promote this kind of peace, that this kind of peace has really been promoted by all the previous speakers? 9. True enough, some speakers have made important contributions to this end. Many of them have put forward constructive ideas for promoting international co-operation in matters of common concern.”

   1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)

2. “But even if this fear should be removed, even if the fear of the employment of nuclear weapons and of pollution through tests, terrifying as that is, should be averted, mankind will still not have peace —that is, peace in the full sense of the word. 7. When it was announced that South Africa had decided to accede to the test ban treaty, my Government made this clear by indicating that there were also other threats to world peace, to co-operation and to the prosperity of mankind. In this connexion, mention was made of the continuation of ideological conflicts, with attempts by States to dominate and indoctrinate the minds of men, as well as intervention by States, in the prosecution of their ideological campaigns, in the domestic affairs of others under the guise of morality or service to humanity.”

   1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)

3. “This debate has therefore brought into clear relief how Governments and peoples are, as it were, clutching at every straw —and I do not use this word disparagingly— which may enable mankind to escape from the nightmare of complete destruction, which may lead to the conditions of international life that we would desire to hand down to those who come after us, 5. This fear must be heeded, and those directly responsible must now press on to the next logical steps in the field of disarmament —steps which would ensure, among other things, an effective system of inspection and control. The necessity of this was stressed by our Foreign Minister when he announced, on 17 September, that the Republic of South Africa had decided to accede to the test ban treaty. 6.”

   1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)

4. “A fact that has emerged most clearly from the general debate Is man's fear of war —that is, a war which will involve the world in a thermo-nuclear holocaust from which no one on this earth, not even succeeding generations, will escape. 2. A number of speakers have made it clear that mankind cannot continue to live, with any sense of tranquillity, under this ever-present dread of impending disaster. 3. Speakers have, almost without exception, acclaimed the test ban treaty as a possible breakthrough, however limited, in at least one aspect of the nuclear threat. Some have welcomed the direct means of communication and contact between the leaders of the two major nuclear Powers. In both these developments they endeavour to see some glimmer of hope of a less dangerous, and therefore a more fruitful, form of international life. 4.”

   1963-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 18 (1963)