On a point oforder, I should just like to point out that it is not surprising that the representative of Jordan should be so upset about what I have to say. For a number of years he has used this kind of language; he has referred to my people as "a bubonic plague", as "a cancerous growth" and so for…
In my statement during the debate on the policies of apartheid of the Government of South Africa [59th meeting], I remarked that the needless insertion of unending diatribes against my country has severely undermined the very purpose of the annual debate on apartheid. I also took that opportunity to…
In my remarks at the opening of this debate [86th meeting], I addressed myself to the real dimensions of the manifold conflicts throughout the Middle East and to their implications for international peace and security. I pointed briefly to a number of the most serious trouble-spots, in- cluding the …
We have followed closely the general debate which has just been concluded. Many issues worthy of comment were raised. However, 1 should prefer to focus my remarks on one particularly disturbing pheno- menon which was much in evidence in the course of this debate. We have witnessed the re-emergence o…
I should just like to refresh the memory of the Jordanian representative and remind him that Mr. Bassam Shaka'a was detained by the Jor- danian authorities in 1958. He escaped from prison and fled to Syria and was then sentenced to four years' im- prisonment in absentia. He was granted a pardon in t…
A draft resolution was adopted yesterday in the Special Political Committee in great haste and with utter disrespect for the relevant rules of procedure. Today that draft resolution has been rushed to the General Assembly, which is now called upon to discuss it and vote upon it. The~e was - and is- …
The position of Israel with regard to all forms of racism and racial discrimination, including apartheid, has been stated and reaffirmed an- nually in this forum. The Jewish people's concept of mankind has always been that of a unity deriving its character from a common origin and a common desti- ny…
Children evoke in all of us the deepest of human sentiments-love, concern and a sense of responsibility. The extent to which this observa- tion is universal. has been amply demonstrated by the overwhelming response to the International Year of the Child throughout the world. The decision incorporate…
Mr. President, in deference to your ruling, I should like to address myseIfand reply to the statement made by the Soviet Foreign Minister [7th meeting].
162.' The Soviet Foreign Minister referred to ques- tions of human rights and fundamental ~reedoms. It!s surely too much for him to expect that th…
In view of your statement, Mr. President, I should like to confine myself with regard to Cuba to one partiCUlarly insulting statement made about my country and my people which calls for a response-
With your pennission, Mr. President, I should like to proceed. As is all too well known, Cuba has over the last two decades put itself, both militarily and politically, at the complete disposal of one particular super-Power. Its troops have ever been ready to act as proxies for Soviet expansionism a…
With all due respect, Mr. President, I had, I thought, made it clear that I was responding to the statement made by the chainnan of the non-aligned group of nations. You, yourself, Sir, introduced the speaker in that capacity, and in the first sentences of his statement he explicitly said that he wa…
My country was assailed virulently this morning by Cuba, which addressed the Assembly as the spokesman ofthe non-aligned group of nations [31st meeting]. One is bound to note that Cuba follows a very odd form of non-alignment. Indeed, its track record scarcely qualifies it as a non-aligned country a…
The Jordanian representa- tive has again tried to falsify the history of the Middle East but, as is well known, the Arab countries, includ- ing Transjordan, vowed to destroy General Assembly resolution 181 (II) of29 November 1947 and then set out to destroy it by the force of arms. Transjordan-that …
This Assembly is con- fronted with a startling and, for many, an unacceptable fact: peace is being made in the Middle East.
310. The present general debate, which is now draw- ing to its close, has been largely a repeat performance of last year's. Fearful of embracing the new spirit of dia- logue a…
In our statement during the debate on the policies of apartheid of the Government of South Africa [58th meeting], I remarked that we were engaged, not in a process of deliberation, but in a ritualistic incantation which has severely undermined the very purpose of the annual debate on apartheid. I al…
The nations of the Middle East stand today at a crucial turning-point in their history. For the first time in 30 years of conflict and warfare, they have the opportunity to break out of a seemingly endless and intractable cycle of violence, destruction and suffering, and to embrace a new era of peac…
The nations of the Middle East are at a turning-point in their history. For the first time in 30 years of conflict there is re21 and tangible progress toward s peace. God willing, we shall ha ve the first Arab-Israel peace treaty in the course of the cllrrent session 0 f th~ Gencral Assembly, and it…
My delegation wishes to associate itself with the resolution adopted by consensus a few moments ago.
52. Israel's position on the agenda item before us was set out by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Yigal Allon, in his statement before the General Assembly on 7 Octob…
