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General Assembly ..... ft.,~ .. Ol£nu GENERAL PLENARY~EETING ASSEMBLY Monday, 26 September 1.!J60, at 3 p.m. FIFTEENTH SESSION Official Records NEW YG RK - CONTENT-S 6. The eyes of the world arenow onthis international Page forum, and the peoples expect, justifiably, that the United Nations will find ways and means··· of eliminat­ Agenda item 9: ing the threat of war and maintaining a tenable peace. General debate (continued) There can be no doubt·that the participation of high­ Speech byMr. Shehu, Chairman ofthe Council level statesmen from a number of countries creates of Ministers of the People's Republic of favourable conditions for makingprogress,duringthis ~j, Alba.nia •••••- ••••••••• ••• _e, • • •• 1.13 General Assembl:yts work, towards the strengthening Speech by Mr. Castro, Prime Minister of of peace. CuiJa •• ••••••• ", . .•• •• ••••• • •. 117 7. The Government ofthe People'sRepublic ofAlbania conSiders that, in the present situation of inb.reased President: Mr. Frederick H. BOLAND (Ireland). tension, there is no more sacred duty, for EWery Gov­ ernment truly aware of its resp<D!l$ibility t6-itspeople and to mankind, than to devote its wholeenerbryto the cause of maintaining international peace andsecurity• AGENDA ITEM 9 8. It is an indisputable fact that the socialist system exists and flourishes side by side with the capitalist General debate (pontinued) system, irrespective of the wishes of certain groups or Governments whose main purpose is to perpetuate 1. Mr. SHEHU., Chairman of th~ Council ofMinisters the capitalist system and to destroy the socialist of the People's Republic of Albania (translated from system" Russian): As .the representative of the People's Re­ public of Albama, I am happy toconveysincere greet­ 9. Under these new historical circumstances, our ings to the United Nations General Assembly fromthe Government is deeply convinced that the only way to Albanian Government and people andtowiSh itsuccess ensure peace and to save mank1D.d from a third world in its important work. war is through the peaceful cdexistence of the two social systems. \ . 2. The Governmentofthe People'sRepublic ofAlbania highly values the noble part played by the United 10. The People's Republic of Albania stands firmly Nations, to the establishment of which the Albanian for peaceful coexistence, because the Albanian people people made its contribution by its self-sacrificing is against war and because peace is the v.ery essence strUggle against nazism and fascism shoulder to of the socialist regime which was established in our sho~lper with the. other allied peoples. The policy of country sixteen years ago. This is shown in the whole our peaceable State shows that the Albanian Govern­ activity of the People'S Republi()of Albania and in its ment respects the fundamental Purposes and Princi.­ peaceful policy. We regard coexistenceaaanecessary pies of the United Nati~ns Charter. element in the international l'elations between the two 3. A year ago the General Assembly was conducting systems at thisparticularstageofhumandevelopment. its work in a relatively relaxed international atmo~ 11. But whereas the socialist States, the independent phere. Of great importance in this connexion Were .national State~ and the countries pursuing a policy of the Soviet Government's proposals on general and neutrality (which the Albanian Government supports complete disarmament [A/4219]. Theseproposals., and and values as a contribution to the causeof peace), as also the agreement which had been reached on the well as broad sections .of the people in the capitalist convening of the SummitConferencebetweentheSoviet countries themselves, strongly advocate and actively Union, the United States, the United Kingdom and strive for peaceful coexistence, reactionary circles France, engendered hopes for the strengthening of in the United States and its allies are clearly antago­ internationalpe.aceand security. nistic to the policy of peaceful coexistence and are 4, The Government of the People's Republic ofAlba­ following a policy that leads to war.. nia, which has always striven and will continue to 12. In order to prevent the relaxation of tension, strive for peace and friendship among the peoples and reactionary circles in the United States have engaged for the triumph of the policy of peaceful coexistence, ~n overt acts of aggression, such as the dispatcb of welcomed and actively supported thatfavourable trend the U-2 aircraft over Soviet territory on 1 May 1960. in international relations which appeared a year ago. That event, as is knQW1l, torpedoed the Summit Con­ 5. We are bound, however., to note that this year the ference and ledto. anaggravationofthewhole situation. General Assembly's session is taking place in an at­ The President of the United States made a statement, mosphere of tension, in an international situation unprecedented in the annals of diplomatic history; strained as. a result of the cold war arid "position of proclaiming espionage to be the official and legal atrength" policy which is beingfollowedbyimperialist policy of the United States. How can such aetionsbe reactionary circles. compatible With peaceful coexistence? These acts are 113 A/PV.872 114 General Assembly - Fifteenth Session - Plenary Meetings gross violations of the principles oftheUnitedNations this year, to membership in the United Nations. The Charter,,\and of the fundamental principle governing Albanian people and Government, which ha,re always the relat~ons between sovereign States in peace-time; sympathized with the national-liberation struggle of they constitute a challenge to every Statewhichvalues the oppressed colonial peoples, heartilyrejotceatthia, national sovereignty and peace. historic victory. The People's Republic of Albania is 13. The Government of the People's Republic of ready to co-operate with allthenew States in the causel Albania considers that respect for the national sov'" of peace, freedom and progress for the peoples. We' ereignty of every State is bas;tc to normal and peace­ are also certain that the day is rLot far off when trle ful relations between States. "1#e cannot therefore but heroic and self...sacrificing'struggle of our brothers condemn., as highly dangerous to the cause of peace the Algerian people will be lrowlllad with the aChieve­ this &ttitude of the United States Government; and w~ ment of freedom and natidnallndependence, when no fully support the perfectly correct position adoptedby people in Aslla., Africa or elsewhere will any longer the Soviet Union., as being the only right and proper suffer under the yoke of colon-tal dependence. position for a State defending its inviolability and, 1.7" The shameful colonial system" whioh has caused therefore, peace. the }llajol"ii:y fof the world's peopl~s~o much suffertllg 14. The General Assembly is to consider atthis ses­ and hardship, is living through its lal:1tdays. 'l'he de­ sion the question of aggressive actions of the United plorable events in the Congo show that the colonial States of America against the Soviet Union. The dele­ PI')wers are doing their utmost to regain the pos:itions gation of the People's Republic of Albania supports they have 1013t, but no intrigue~ and no force can stop this initiative and will in due course state its point of the irresis:tible historical process of the colonialpeo­ view on this subject. The People'sRepublic ofAlbania, pIes' liberatilon. likewise, is a oonstant target for the hostile policy of ruling circles in the United States. The item which is 18. The Government of the People's Republic of to be debated is of concern to all free and sovereign Albania fully agrees with the Soviet Government that peoples, as it involves the policy of a great Power the time haE! come to bringup the question of the com"",· whose absurd dream it is to destroy the freedom and plete and fi.nal elimination of the colonial regime in" independence of other people and to establish its own all its forms. There is no doubt thatthe United Nations hegemony everywhere. Indeed, this aggressive policy can exercil3e a very great influence in the fulfilment . is directed not only against the Soviet Union., the Peo­ of this historic task. Our delegation has great satis­ ple's Republic of China and the other people's democ­ faction in supporting the declaration, on the graJl.t racies, but also against all countries which do not of independence to colonial countries and peoples, submit to American imperIalism and which wish to [A/4502] submitted by the Soviet delegation., and con.. live in freedom. The whole world is witness to the siders that the adoption of thiE.t declaration by the policy of blackmail and pressure,plots and aggression General Assembly will promote the cause of freedom which is being practiced by the United States against and progress for the peoples, as well as that of uni­ the heroic Cuban people. 'fhe tragic events in the versal peace. Congo,. the intervention in Laos, the innumerable 19. In connexion with this question, I would like to crimes in South Viet-Nam, and the economic,political say that we not only regret but object strongly to the and military pressure on numerous other countries fact that the United Nations has been used against the of the world-all this has its source in the aggressive independence, sovereignty and national unity of the policy of the reactionary imperialist circles, and first Republic of the Ccmgo bec8)).Be the Secretary-General and foremost in the policy of the United S-tatl~s of has taken the side of the colonialists and not th9.t of America. Recent events in South Korea, Turkey and the rightful cause of the Congolese people and of its Japan show that, even in those countries where the legitimate Government. The delegation ofthe'People's Position of the American imperialists has been re­ Republic of Albania endorses the t~Jinion expressed garded as "extremely strong", the people are finding by Mr.
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