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United Nations 2259th 508 GENERAL PLENARY MEETING lI. wh ASSEMBLY Monday, 7 October /974, and at 3 p.m. TWENTY-NINTH SESSION to the Offreial Records NEW YORK and the CONTENTS American region, thereby making its presence in the to t United Nations a twofold source ofvery great satisfac Page tion to the Latin American group ofStates. As regards 12. Agenda item 9: Guinea-Bissau, we again have many grounds for sat by General debate (continued] isfaction in view of all that its presence represents. fro Speech by Mr. Guzman Soriano (Bolivia) 507 ten Speech by Mr. Cissoko (Mali)....................... 509 5. The General Assembly heard with deep conster ter Speech by Mr. WiIlesee (Australia) . 514 nation' Mr. Cesar Batres, the Minister for, Foreign ma Speech by Mr. Simbananiye (Burundi) . 518 Affairs of Honduras [2242nd meeting]. His words Speech by Mr. Umba-di-Lutete (Zaire)... 525 rela brought to us the tragic confirmation of the gravity aid President: Mr. Abdelaziz BOUTEFLIKA of the disaster which has struck his country. He made lant us feel as our own the pain and devastation which the adv (Algeria). Honduran people have been suffering. We know that there are tragedies in respect of which words are meaningless. But we know too that the ideas trans mitted in this august Assembly are the expression of an international solidarity profoundly moved and In the absence ofthe President, Mr. Garcia Robles stimulated by tile marvellous sense of human brother (Mexico), Vice-President, took the Chair. hood, a brotherhood which in the midst of pain, and perhaps because of it, will bring spiritual comfort, AGENDA ITEM 9 moral encouragement and material assistance to the sister State of Honduras, with which the Government Ge,eral debate (continued) and the people ofBolivia feel a deep sense ofsolidarity in these moments of sorrow and affliction. 1. Mr. GUZMAN SORIANO (Bolivia) (interpreta tion from Spanish): I wish to state that it is a signal 6. As I was saying, every year we meet here--coun honour to address the Assembly from this rostrum tries which are united and separated for many reasons -the highest expression of world thinking-where quite apart from geographical distances. We come here illustrious statesmen from the most distant corners of seeking a pledge, bringing our concerns and our the world have come to carry out a dialogue, which hopes. This is the most eloquent proof that our faith is a means of understanding par excellence between in the supreme world body has not faltered. We be peoples and between men. This is possible because of lieve i... the ideals and postulates of the San Francisco 14. the growing universality of the United Nations, which . Charter, which was masterfully conceived 29 years Sec at each session of the General Assembly enables us ago. sta to greet new States that have joined the system. der 7. These principles have not lost force with the pas sta 2. On behalf of my Government and my people, in sage of time, and they are as valid today as they were pro our language which is a language of peace, I greet all then in promoting an international conduct designed lest the nations represented here. We wish to practise to enable mankind, throi'..d,.--.... :., so many ways, to of friendship without reservations or exclusions. We are follow a road lez., '"116 t"\ me attainment of a destiny tior a developing country, a part of the earth which shares of happiness and prosperity. rela the limitations, hopes, disappointments and impatience of those countries which earnestly seek their progress 8. The items to be debated in the Assembly are 15. in an atmosphere of stable peace, based on the broad many and complex. Among them there is no order of pro est co-operation. priority with which to determine their importance. be All, everyone of them, are intimately connected with 3. I wish to express to the President ofthe Assembly, do the lofty purposes of the United Nations; but it is en Mr. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the eminent statesman from quite true that some are of greater concern to us. Algeria, our most cordial greetings and our best wishes pro for his success. To the outgoing President, Mr. Leo 9. Accordingly, I shall refer only to some ofthe items asp poldo Benites, and to the Secretary-General, Mr. Kurt which, in our opinion, require priority attention and Waldheim, we express our appreciation of their immediate action by the States Members ofthis Organ unflagging work for world peace. ization so that through adequate adjustments we may promote success in the great tasks which the inter 4. I also wish to extend a brotherly welcome to the national community seeks to complete" new Members of the Organization, the States of Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau. As my 10. At this stage in our civilization, when man, country has from the outset maintained cordial rela through his inexhaustible ingenuity, has solved the tions with Bangladesh, we can only rejoice at its entry mystery ofouter space, mankind cannot consider wars into the United Nations. The same holds true in re to be inevitable. There is therefore no acceptable spect of Grenada, a State which is also within the justification for mass destruction. A/PV.2259 and Corr.I 508 General As8embly-Twenty-ninth SesaIon-Plenary Meetings I 11. For this reason, from this rostrum of peace, that they faithfully reflect the interests and aspira is sensitive tOI where we nobly endeavour to arrive at understanding tions of the economically backward countries. Therefore, we and friendship among peoples, my delegation wishes 18. Hence, we not only appeal for understanding that the negoi to express its most earnest hope that the efforts of from the industrialized nations but we also require and be consc the Security Council will strengthen peace on Cyprus theirdynamic participation in this undertaking, through achieve genuh and that the international community will endorse generous and concrete expressions of their political to the conflic the initiative ofthe Secretary-General to bring comfort will, with a view to establishing a more balanced and covering the I to the populations affected by the conflict. just economic system. ference or imj 12. 13ut the aims of peace cannot be secured except 19. There is clearly the threat of a world-wide eco 27. Let us e by political action designed to prevent possible con nomic dislocation. It is a time of trial and of urgent lieve that the ( frontations. At present, the elimination of world decisions. Joint action and ~~olidarity must go beyond The situation; tension must be sought, basically, in a frank and de simple statements. Positive ~tUtudes conceived ofwith the most sere termined co-operation for development, which will imagination and executed with boldness are what a smooth way make it possible to establish a just order in economic I is needed. 28. My cOUI relations among States in the knowledge that external colonialism in aid and co-operation have ceased to be an act of phi 20. It is of the utmost importance that we obtain a progressive revaluation ofthe exports ofthe developing lion the fund lanthropy and have become a duty which the most taking place i advanced countries can no longer shirk. countries. But we believe that this willonly be possible if we adopt an appropriate mechanism which will cesses but pr~ 13. These motives gave impetus to the drafting and link and automatically adjust, starting with equitable moulds of hi. implementation of a major effort-the international levels, the evolution of prices of the exports of the international ~ development strategy for the First United Nations least developed nations with the manufactures of the 29. In this " Development Decade. We recognize, in all its aus industrialized countries. new States to' picious intention, the essential achievements of that 21. It is also of priority interest to strengthen the will enter th programme, even though it must be pointed out that organs for these purposes so as to achieve a greater the principles! they were not ~l1fficient to solve the complex problem transfer of financial and technological resources for Nations, whie of underdevelopment. This circumstance led to a the benefit of States which seek to develop. resentments ~ ·feeling of frustration which, with the useful lessons 30. 'This yea' learned from the earlier attempt, we must try to dispel 22. Another legitimate means to prevent any possible crisis might be found by the international community ments. There and overcome. The desire to achieve the advance and the hope 1 ment and prosperity of peoples is a goal which, despite if, with a criterion of equity, it agrees to promote and facilitate the processing of natural resources in the with the corn frustrations, cannot be abandoned. The will of nations in the context must persist in its purpose to achieve those aims. regions where they are found, that is to say, for the benefit of the soil itself where nature placed these of dialogue, n Were this not to be so, we would be committing a us in Ameri< blunder with unforeseeable consequences for the riches. It is also important to assist in the process of regional and subregional integration. and has mad future of mankind. effective cor; 23. Another chapter which deserves our attention solidarity. T. 14. With these irrenunciable aims still in view, the is the one regarding a draft Charter of Economic Second United Nations, Development Decade was Buenos Aires Rights and Duties of States. exa~ started in a spirit of renewal. The responsibility shoul , \ edifying dered by the international community is greater at this 24. We should like to make it possible, in brief, the world Po stage than in the past because new expectations and that through joint efforts, as the original element of to review th~ prospects are being nurtured.