As in previous years, this year again
we are facing the task of objectively evaluating the course of the process of
democratization in South Africa, taking into account all the conditions
prevailing in that country. Above all, however, we should contribute to that
process in a peaceful and non-v…
As the extent of democratization
of a society can be measured by the rights and freedoms exercised by the most
simple citizens, so the level of care that that society provides to its
citizens can be assessed by the care it gives to the most vulnerable of them.
In 1982 the Government of what was …
Let me congratulate you. Sir, on
your election as President of the General Assembly at its forth-seventh
session. I wish you much success and promise you full support.
I thank your predecessor, Mr. Shihabi, for guiding the General Assembly
to success at its forth-sixth session.
The past year we…
The question of Namibia has ranked for many years among the crucial items on the agenda ofthe General Assembly, not only as the most flagrant example of persisting colonialism, but also as a source ofa serious threat to peace and security in southern Africa that has a negative impact on the overall …
It seems that no other part of the world has suffered and continues to suffer as much from war as South-East Asia. The countries of Indo- China-Viet Nam, Laos and Kampuchea-are vic- tims of colonialism and acts of imperialist aggression. Today they still do not know peace and calm because the aforem…
For many years now, the developments in the Middle East have been among the darkest aspects of international relations. This situation did not arise spontaneously. As in other parts of the world, this tension is carefully planned and created by the most reactionary imperialist forces. The final obje…
On behalf of Italy and Venezut~la, which serve as Vice-Chairmen of the Board of Governors of IAEA, and on behalf of my own country, which is the current Chairman of that Board, I have the honour to introduce draft reso- lution A/37/L.29 on the report of lAEA for the year 1981. 47. A moment ago, we h…
Virtually since its foundation our Organiza- tion has been compelled to take up the extremely important problem of South African apartheid, that most disgusting form of racism, which is the basis of the ideology of the Pretoria regime and the organi- zational principle on which State power is exerci…
Once again this year, we have had presented to us for our consideration a matter which falls exclusively within the purview of a sovereign State Member of the United Nations, namely, the Democratic Republic of Mghanistan. This, moreover, has occurred, first, despite the extremely clear and uncomprom…
Once again this year, we have had presented to us for our consideration a matter which falls exclusively within the purview of a sovereign State Member of the United Nations, namely, the Democratic Republic of Mghanistan. This, moreover, has occurred, first, despite the extremely clear and uncomprom…
In the joint communique of the meeting of the Committee of Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the member States of the Warsaw Pact dated 2 December this year, it was stated that in the recent past: "There has been a fur- ther worsening of the international climate and an increase in the military threa…
The wide-ranging consideration of the question of Palestine in this forum and in the meetings of other bodies of the United Nations, including the Security Council, shows that the Middle East is still one of the most dangerous hotbeds of international tension, constitut- ing a threat to internationa…
Last year, at a solemn meeting during the thirty-fifth session, we celebrated the twentieth anniver- sary of the adoption, on the initiative of the Soviet Union, of the now historic Declaration on the Granting of Inde- pendence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. Thut, Decla- ration opened up new pro…
The Czechoslovak delegation supported the decision to include in the agenda of the current Gen- eral Assembly session the item on the consequences of Israeli armed aggression against the Iraqi nuclear research centre, an act of aggression committed on 7 June of this year. We share the view of the ov…
IAEA, whose report is the subject of our careful study, several weeks ago marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of its existence. In the course of that period of time the Agency, the founding members of which include Czechoslovakia, has been
68. The Agency's history is connected with the mer- itoriou…
Allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your. election to the office of P;resident of this session of the General Assembly. I extend to you, as well as to the Secre- tary-General, best wishes for success in your work. I should also like to pay a tribute to the work ofyour predecessor, Mr. RUdiger von …
Mr. President, first I ;;h;;ald like to take this opportunity of heartily congra~ulating you on your elec- tion to the responsible post of President of the Geneml Assembly at the thirty·sixth session. I wish you success in discharging your great responsibilities.
163. For the third time now it has …
The piratical attack by the Israeli air force on the Iraqi nuclear research centre in the sum-
143. Effective measures to prevent this type ofaction are contained in the proposal submitted by the Soviet Union at the present session [AIC.I1371L.7j on the intensification of efforts to remove the thre…
I should like at the outset to express our thanks to the members of the United Nations Council for Namibia, under the competent leader- ship of Mr. Paul Lusaka, for the work they have accom- plished and for their exhaustive report [A/36/24], which is the sixteenth document of its kind. For 15 years …
The struggle against the last remnants of colonialism, against all forms and manifestations of racism and racial oppres- sion and against the apartheid practised by South Africa, which is one of the most despicable crimes and the most massive violation of all fundamental human rights in the world to…