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1955Th 11 ! I 1\ GENERAL PLENARY MEETING I F I{ ! R Il ASSEMBLY Wednesday, 6 October 1971, II TWENTY·SIXTH SESSION at 3 P.M r'{ I, 1'1 i '1 if 1\ United Nations 1955th 11 ! i 1\ GENERAL PLENARY MEETING i f I{ ! r il ASSEMBLY Wednesday, 6 October 1971, II TWENTY·SIXTH SESSION at 3 p.m. tJ ~J Officif,,l Records NEW YORK t'!r, CONTENTS Members of the United Nations. To the peoples of these Page three new States I should like to convey our congratula­ Agenda item 9: tions and our very sincere wishes for success in everything },~ General debate (continued) they undertake to promote peace and progress in their own . ! Speech by Mr. Hassane (Chad) . 1 i 'f countries and in their efforts tc .meet their international : f Speech by Mr. Khatri (Nepal) . 6 ,: Speech by Mr. Thorn (Luxembourg) . 10 obligations. ; j , I Speech by Mr. Tack (Panama) .............•.... 13 ,1j- f Speech by Mr. Muldoon (New Zealand) ....•...... 15 4. Together with my congratulations to these States, I ~i Speech by Mr. Solano Lopez (Paraguay) . 19 )1 Speech by Mr. Ickonga (People'8 Republic of the Congo) 22 should like to pay a tribute to the United Kinguom, for this il is not its first praiseworthy act ofdecolonization. J, i ( I I,; I i 1 President: Mr. Adam MALIK (Indonesia). 5. Our experience in intem~tional relations gives us some nI l' reason for anxiety and leads us to share the op:nion ofour 1 f I ,I Secretary-General-to whom I hasten to pay a highly I l:1 AGENDA ITEM 9 f'i deserved tribute for the political courage, exemplary i J i( !I devotion and obje:tive far-sightedness which he has I \ General debate (continued) r1f demonstrated during 10 years of distinguished and uninter­ s~rvice II L Mr. HASSANE (Chad) (interpretation from French): rupted to the United Nations-expressed in the i i introduction to his latest report on the work of the t;) Mr. President, I should like to join those who preceded me ~ Organization during the previous year: I·t. on this rostrum and begin my statement by addressing my 11 very sincere congratulations to. you, who are such a t.,j "Looking back on the past ten years, I cannot help i J dynamic servant of peace. Once again the international ;'1 community, oUr community, has decided to draw on the reaching the conclusion that during that period the most f ~ ! i rich experience of the great continent of A<;ia to gUide our powerful nations have all too seldom shown themselves :1 able to rise above the suspicions, fears and mistrust that : 1 debates. The choice which has been made by our Assembly I I iii in asking you, Sir, to be in charge of our discussions, the spring from their different ideologies, different objectives In'! and different conceptions of the best interests of the Il,l serious problems for which our twenty-sixth session will I j I \ world. By and large, the rivalry of nations continued to j-{ have to attempt to fmd solutions, and the hopes which l I i,1 many of us have in this session to reach satisfactory be the dominant factor in international life. Precisely for f ' ~ 11 solutions for most of the problems facing humanity, all that reason, many promising developments have not r!\.[ these indicate th~ amplitude of the responsibilities wrrich reached fulf:t1ment, and results still remain far below the I '! hopes and aspirations of the world community." [A/ illI,) we have entrusted you with this year. Consequently, Sir, I should like to assure you that my delegation will do 8401/Add.l, para. 6.J Ii'\, ,'1 everything in its power to make your task as easy as I -J i "1 possible. You may therefore be assured of our entire 6. The dangerously explosive situation which prevails at I' co-operation. present in the Middle East, in South-East Asia and in 11 southern Africa is a striking IIllinifestation of this. All the i'l k'~ 2. I should also like to take this opportunity to pay a . efforts ofthe United Nations tofmd ways and means which ~ tribute to Mr. Edvard Hambro, the previous President of would make it possible to apply the provisions of Security F"l the General Assembly for the masterly way in which he Council resolution 242 (1967) to the conflict in the Middle if conducted our debates dUring the twenty-fifth session East to the satisfaction of all the parties concerned, have 11 which, we should like to emphasize in passing, was been in vain. i. honoured by the presence of a large number 'of eminent I~ ::~:y~~f~~a~~~~~r~~e~~~to~:~~::~~~~~l::::~~~~~ i~r ~~er~:~:~~i~i:g~~~Po~rtall°~t:~:s;:~~c~~i o~;:~~~:~" IA of 25 years of activity by the United Nations, whose to the acquisition or occupation of the territory of other I~ success has not been unmitigated, and also to broadly States by force, we should like to voice the hope that the 1'1 outline a certain strategy for the United Nations in the United Nations will, as soon as possible, find some meansbf ;·;1 coming years. applying this resolution,or find some other solution to the )'11I;~ problem satisfactory to all parties concemed~ including th~ jll ..,..:.~...•.i.. 3. Finally) in welcoming them into the Organization, I Palestinian refugees. Thus, the Organization of African ~ should like to express the gratification of the Government Unity believes it is its duty to make a further contribution ll~ and the people of Chad in seeing the States of Bahrain, to fmding a soluti(>D to this problem. The Mrican Commit- l~ Bhutan and Qatar accede to independence and become tee of the 10 "Wise Men" chose a sub-committee consisting i 1 A/PV.1955 ~~~~J~~"~~'~':":~:'1.~~~~'~~':~~~'::::'L~!~·.":~:~.d:."'~":'"''''·/'' '~~~~~~~":':~~~~:!,~~~~~~~~~~~::~R~~!!i",~~ ~ :~~.~ ._:~~_>~~_~ _._~~ ":.'.:_ . __ __ .. 2 General Assembly - Twenty-sixth Session - Plenary Meetings , of four Heads of State who, as you all know, are to work and complete disarmament or a lasting solution for any along these lines. other problem relating to the maintenance ofinternational peace and security without the agreement of the People's r 8. The development of the situation in Europe, on the Republic of China? This great nation, this proud people, whole, even in the judgement ofthe Europeans themselves, which in all areas has full confidence in its own potential r gives us serious reason to believe that there will be a solid and has no reason to envy anybody else on this earth, will, f i,r, basis for establishing a friendly entente and, very shortly, if we are not careful, make us regret our hesitation by I lasting peace among aU European States, based not merely simply making use ofthe complete freedom which we seem I·1 I' on political relaxation of tension or peaceful coexistence, to be thus giving them. } 1 with all their accompanying distrust and doubt, but on I economic, social and cultural co-operation which is of 12. If we have any respect at all for &is people, we should overriding jrnportance to engender and strengthen a spirit respect their choice and recognize the legal reghne it has .. of solidarity among peoples and nations. Thus it was with chosen to direct its affairs. We believe that this is what .. Ii f genuine pleasure that we heard the Minister for Foreign inspired our elders who were present at the birth of the Affairs ofFrance, Mr. Schumann, declare from this rostrum United Nations when they seated China as a permanent [ in the course ofthe present general debate: member of the Security Council. It is, in fact, a right which 1 i has been recognized as belonging to the Chinese people and ; 1 .~ , "May we not hope that those three ei.ements of a true its power and not to a Chinese citizen and the regime which political reconstruction in the very centre ofEurope-the he chose. It is, therefore, for us simply a matter of tI (' Berlin accord, the necessary arrangements between the respecting a very important principle of our Charter, the I German authorities, and the entry into force of the principle ofthe right ofpeoples to self-determination. Treaties of Mospow and Warsaw-will culminate in an I agreement between the two German States? Nothing 13. But the respect· of this self-same principle makes it 1i I would contribute more effectively to guaranteeing the necessary for us to consider seriously the free choice ofthat i t . stability of the continent as a whole." [1942nd meeting, part of the Chinese people which prefers to live in Formosa para. 63.J under another regime. 9. It was equally comforting to hear the Minister for 14. The position of my country regarding the question of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, Mr. Gromyko, state the representation of China remains, theefore, as it was : ., from this rostrum during the same meeting: described last year from this rostrum by my Head ofState, ~ H.E. Mr. Fran90is Tombalbaye, who declared: "The recently signed Quadripartite Agreement on prob­ lems concerning West Berlin will serve to eliminate one of "That vast country is therefore an interlocutor that no the'most dangerous sources oftension and friction and to one has the right to spurn or to exciude from the world Gystem of co-operation and peaceful coexistence, because I, .improve the atmosphere in an unhealthy area of Euro­ 1 . pean politics.... so long as it is shut out, no equilibrium can he anything L but precarious md transient. But we cannot make good one injustice by perpetrating another, which is what the exclusion of Formosa, itself a founder Member of our "In the Federal Republic ofGennany, the forces which Organization, would be." [1882nd meeting, para.
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