Sir, may I first congratulate you on your election to the presidency of this thirty-third regular session of the General Assembly. We look forward with great anticipation and enthusiasm to profiting from your leadership and wisdom as you guide us in dealing with the issues at hand for this coming As…
The Government of the United States h.as joined in the consensus on draft resolution IV under agenda item 80 out of a deep sense of outrage over the number of persons who . have died in r~cent years while detained in South Africa's prisons. These deaths in detention are compelling evidence of a patt…
The subject of draft resolution A/32/L.15/Rev.l-the peaceful use of nuclear energy for economic and social develop- ment-is of great importanc~ to all of us.
76. The United States appreciates the co-operative atti- tude shown by the sponsors of this draft resolution in accepting changes in the text…
I should like to explain our negative vote on draft resolution A/37/L.40/Rev.l.
104. Many delegations here, my own among them, worked hard to develop a generally acceptable com- promise draft resolution text which could be adopted by consensus at this session. These efforts, unfor- tunately, proved…
I do n··: intend to dwell at length on the subject under discussion today. The views of my Government on the Palestinian question are well known, and, in any event, the attention of all of lls-the focus of the world with regard to th~ Middle East-is directed elsewhere these days.
87. The rapid sequ…
The United States was pleased to participate in the consensus by which draft resolution VII on Guam was just adopted.
! IS. We have always believed that, in order to make a judgement as to wheL~er or not a military base in a Non-Self-Governing Territory is inhibiting the process of self-determinati…
We are meeting to discuss the situation in the Middle East at a crucial and perhaps pivotal time in the history of that region. A remarkable event in the political life of the Middle East has occurred. We are all acutely aware that the politics of the area will never be as they were before Egyptian …
The United States is weIlt aware of and fully appreciates the essential role regional organizations play. We believe that regional co-operation is a concrete and necessary com- ponent of global co-operation. In particular, the United States Government wishes to reaffmn its respect for the OAU and th…
Once again this Assembly has before it the question'of Cyprus, which has received so much attention from the United Nations in the past. And once again it must be noted that progress towards a settlement on Cyprus has not met the hopes and expectations of this body. The Secretary-General has clearly…
The representative of Canada has already explained why the United States and some of our colleagues in the Security Council have abstained in the vote on some of the draft resolutions adopted today. I shall now make a few additional comments on some of the other draft resolutions.
138. The fust tim…
My Govern- me .,,.. holds the view, as it has for many years, that the
ent~: world community, without exception, has an im- mediate and direct interest in taking effective collective action against hijacking and other unlawful acts which interfere with civil aviation.
39. It is appropriate, and mo…
Speaking on behalf of the host COU1'}try~ the United States, I should like to express to the representatives of the Yemen Arab Republic and to the people of that counti'Y our con- dolences upon the untimely death of the President, Ibrahim Mohamed Al·Hamdi.
25. I ask the Permanent Representative of …
My delega- tion wishe~ to state that we do not participate in this consensus, for the same reasons as those we explained at the Second Committee's 6th meeting, held on 6 October.
Mr. Presi- dent, I wish to offer you my congratulations on your election as President of the thirty-second session of the General Assembly. It gives my own Government particular satisfaction to work under the leadership of a representative of Yugoslavia, a nation with which the United States enjoys …
Mr. Presi- dent, allow me to congratulate you most hearWy on your assumption of the high office of President of the United Nations General Assembly. Let me emphasize my delega- tion's confidence in you and our deep desire to co-operate most fully in your conduct of this Assembly's business. Furtherm…
I am pleased to point out that withregard to draft resolution Ill, entitled "Special action in favour of land-locked developing countries", the United States changed its vote on the draft resolution as a whole from an abstention to an affirmative vote. We have noted with satisfaction the language ch…
While the United States voted No in the Fourth Committee on draft resolution B concerning sanctions against Rhodesia, we shall abstain in the vote in the Assembly. We have changed our vote from the Committee to the Assembly so that our position concerning Rhodesian sanctions not be misunder- stood i…
My delegation was pleased to vote in favour of this draft resolution in the Committee and to join in the consensus. The United States considers it important that action be taken to deal with the contemptible practice of taking hostages. It is important that the international community is now prepare…
My country has been especially happy to have joined in sponsoring the draft resolution supporting the admission of the Independent State of Westem Samoa, which has become the one hundred and forty-seventh Member of the United Nations. Since it became a sovereign State, Western Samoa has played a ver…
We rejoice at the strong support and confidence that the United Nations has shown for you, Mr. Secretary-General, and I say that both as the representative of the United States, the host country, and personally, as one who has faith in the United Nations as a source of solutions to the immense probl…
