As one of your many friends and admirers in this house, Mr. President, may I begin by expressing to you my great personal pleasure at seeing you occupying your high office and by wishing you a very successful tenure during the thirty-seventh session of the General Assembly.
58. I shOUld lIke to tak…
My delegation associates itself with the statement made by the representative of * Resumed from the 69th meeting. Pakistan and expresses its reservations regarding the ** Resumed from the 77th meeti'lg.
Notification by the Secretary-General under Article 12, paragraph 2, of the Charter of the Unite…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the five countries of the Association of South-East Asian Nations [ASEAN]-namely, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Singapore.
66. The ASEAN countries are friends of both the Is- lamic Federal Republic of the Comoros and the French Re- public. We…
Almost since the time the United Nations was founded the ugly item of apartheid has appeared on the agenda of the General Assembly. Each year we gather to reason with, to persuade and to exhort the Government of South Africa to give up what'to us is an irrational State policy.
235. Since 1962 when …
In his statement at the 58th meeting, the representative of the Soviet Union said that our discussion of this item is an interference in the inter- nal affairs of Afghanistan. He also characterized the pres- ence of approximately 100,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan as the provision of "friendly ass…
For the second successive year Viet Nam has proposed for consideration by the General Assembly an agenda item entitled "Question of peace, stability and co-operation in South-East Asia". This year we ai",- have before us a memorandum from the Lao People's Democratic Republic entitled "Principles gov…
A lawyer friend of mine once observed that in arguing a case before a court of law, some lawyers foHow the following rule. If you have the facts on your side, address your arguments to the jury. If you have the law on your side, address your arguments to the judge. If you have neither the facts nor …
On behalf of the five ASEAN countrie~, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and -Singapore, I would like to pay a brief trib- ute to the memory of President Anwar El Sadat and to convey our condolences to the bereaved family.
36. Anwar El Sadat believed that his visit to Jerusalem could break…
Sir, I should like first of all to congratulate you most warmly on your election to the presidency of the thirty-sixth session of the General Assembly. You have spent almost a quarter of a century in this Organization, as a representative of your Government and as an official of the United Nations S…
The only excuse which my delegation will offer for speaking on this item is that my Government maintains the most friendly and co-operative relations with the Governments of both the Comoros and France. We wish to make-a very brief statement on this item in order to avoid any pos- sible misunderstan…
I heed your appeal, Mr. President and was, in any case, about to conclude. I was going to say that Malaysia's proposal is that docu- ment A/34/L.3 be considered a new proposal and not an amendment, and I respectfully request that this pro- posal be put to the vote.
As the sponsors of draft resolution A/34/L. 2 do not insist on a vote on that draft resolution, the Assembly now has before it only two documents: the recommendation in paragraph 26 of the Credentials Committee [A/34/500], and the amendment sponsored by India and six other countries in document A/34…
Towards the end of Alan Paton's novel, Cry, the Beloved Country, the venerable Zulu patriarch Msimangu, "who had nc hate for any man", looks across the Natal hills and says heavily:
"I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they [the whites] turn to loving they will find we are turned t…
It has taken our President only three days to break a United Nations addiction of 30 years: for the first time in three decades we have started a meeting on time, and I should like to take this opportunity to pay my respects and to express my gratitude to President Salim. I also pledge him the co- o…
My delegation has consistently supported all efforts to bring to an end the abhorrent system of apartheid in South Africa. In keeping with this spirit my delegation has voted in favour of draft resolution A/33/L.24. However, my delegation wishes to place on record that it has some reservations on op…
Exactly one week ago, the representatives of 50 States, including the Holy See, at- tended a Pledging Conference for Emergency Humanitarian Relief to the People of Kampuchea, con- vened on the initiative of our Secretary-General, Mr. Kurt Waldheim.
160. Although the representatives canv- from diffe…
Mr. President, I think
tl)l~ real is~ue here is whether or riot the point of order made by the representative of Belgium is a point of order in connection with the actual conduct of voting. His proposal is that the Assembly should not vote on the amendment contained in document A/37/L.60. Now, if m…
Mr. President, may I, on behalf of my Government and the delegation of Singapore, congratulate you on your election to the important office of President of the thirty-second session of the General Assembly. Your election is a tribute to your personal qualities as well as to your country, Yugoslavia,…
I should like briefly to explain the attitude of my delegation towards the application for membership in this Organization of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam. In doing so I should also like to enunciate the general policy of my Government on the membership question.
26. Article 4 of the Charter …
