TheGerman Democratic Republic as a socialist State shares the view of the Co-ordinating Bureau of Non-Aligned Countries that the Vietnamese people during the years of war made great sacrifices in fighting for their national independence, freedom and unity, and have thus contributed to the peace and …
Five months ago this General Assembly of the United Nation:; adopted a resolution on the situation in Namibia which drew attention both to the increasingly dangerous situation in Namibia and to what should be done to ensure the exercise by the Narnibian people of its right to self-determination and …
Five months ago this General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution on the situation in Namibia which drew attention both to the increasingly dangerous situation in Namibia and to what should be done to ensure the exercise by the Namibian people of its right to self-determination and in…
Mr. President, allow me to con- gratulate you on your assumption of the responsible post of President of the thirty-second session of the United Nations General Assembly. Your election to the presidency is a tribute paid to you and also to the role your country, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yug…
Once again the policy of aggression and terror of the apartheid regime of South Africa appears on the agenda of the General Assembly.
89. The struggle of the peoples of South Africa and Namibia to be able to exercise their inalienable rights is being reinforced. The independence of Zimbabwe, which …
This is the seventeenth time that the General Assembly has discussed the agenda item concerning the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. We have a growing conviction that this Declara- tioD: which was adopted on the initiative of the So…
The delegation of the German Democratic Republic considers this fresh dis- cussion of the so-called question of Afghanistan as inadmissible interference in the internal affairs of a State Member of the United Nations and a blatant violation of the basic provisions of the Charter. .
11. We should li…
It is an honour for me to speak on behalf of the delegations of Bulgaria, the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Hungary, Mongolia, Poland, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Czechoslovakia and the Ger- man Democratic Republic.
74. In respect of t…
May I congratulate you heart- ily, Sir, on behalf of the Eastern European Group on your election to the presidency of the United Nations General Assembly. We wish you success in discharging your lofty responsibilities. .
118. I also have the honour of extending our most sin- cere gratitude to your …
A few weeks ago, during the thirty-fifth session, the international com- munity marked the twentieth anniversary of the Decla- ration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. Many representatives here today come from States that achieved their indepen- dence in that 20-year…
The question of an increase in the membership of the Security Council is directly linked with the revision of the Charter of the United Nations. The German Democratic Republic is against a revision of the Charter. The German Demo- cratic Republic shares the view of those States which proceed from th…
My delegation does not in- tend to conceal the fact that the consideration by the General Assembly of such an agenda item as the one be- ing discussed at the present time does give rise to certain doubts. My delegation believes that the discussion of this subject entails the risk of having an unfavo…
Allow me. Sir, on behalfof the delegation of th.e German Democratic Republic. to e.xtend to you our sl.ncere congratul~tions on YOUl'elec- tlOn to the .responsible post of President of the thirty- fourth session of the General Assembly. The Minister fo.r Foreign Affairs of the Gennan Democratic Repu…
R~solution 32/123 of the General Assembly and resolution 3 (XXXIII) of the Commission on Human Rights,2 concerning the commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights {resolution 217A (Ill)], were welcomed with great interest in the German Demo…
Six months ago, in this hall, the meetings of the ninth special session of the General Assembly took place. It adopted a Programme of Action
80. At the special session the General Assembly once again confirmed that the exercise of the right of the people of Namibia to self-determination can be achi…
The mere fact that the question of Palestine is being considered here in a plenary meeting of the General Assembly indicates the special significance of this question in the search for a settlement for the Middle East problem. Our world Organization has never doubted that the question of Palestine i…
The course of our debates has confirmed that the peoples of the world are disturbed at the fact that the tragic events in Cyprus have not ceased, and they expect appropriate action from the world Organ- ization.
65. In his statement of 5 October 1978 at the thirty-third session of the General Assem…
It is no exaggeration to say that splitting the atom and using it as a source of energy is one of the greatest achievements of the scientific genius of our century. It has opened up before mankind unheard of prospects for further research and use of our earth, of outer space and of other celestial b…
At the request of the group of Eastern European States I have the honour and privilege to nominate in this Assembly for a post of Vice-President of the thirty-third session of the General Assembly the Polish People's Republic, a country with which we are linked by the most friendly relations. Poland…
We fmd in the Middle East one of the most dangerous sources of international tension, consti- tuting a threat to universal peace. This thirty-third session of the General Assembly has a particular responsibility for settling the Middle East conflict. The hope that the peoples and States concerned, u…