Some 21 years have elapsed since the Sharpeville massacre and the adoption of Security Council resolution 134 (1960) call- ing for an end to ti~~;- system of apartheid. In the interven- ing years the international community has seen the growth to hardened maturity of apartheid, the brainchild of a l…
I should like at the outset to express my deep personal appreciation of the kind words spoken a short while ago by the Permanent
49. Permit me now to speak on behalf of the sponsors of the two draft resolutions on the item, which have been placed before the Assembly in documents A/33/L.16 and A/33/…
It is with very great pleasure that, on behalf of the Commonwealth Caribbean, I today welcome the delegation of Antigua
and~Barbuda to the United Nations and offer congratula- tions to the Government and people of this sister Carib- bean State upon its membership of this world body.
49. It says mu…
General Assembly resolution 31/169 of 21 December 1976 pro- claiming 1979 International Year of the Child, was a laudable recognition of the importance of the children of the world, whom the poet-philosopher Khalil Gibran so aptly described as "the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself".
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It was more than three decades ago that the General Assembly first censured South Africa for its policies of racial discrimi- nation. Since then, the violations of-national and human rights by the apartheid regime of South Africa have become more persistent and systematic in spite of the numerous re…
The Chairman of the Special Committee presented just a short while ago to the Assembly a review of some of the principal developments in the field of decolonization and drew attention to the major problems that lie ahead. In so doing, . he has greatly simplified my tas~ of introducing the three draf…
We are at present engaged on the consideration of the question of Namibia in the plenary meetings of the Assembly for the fmt time since 1968. It will be recalled that at its twenty-lust session in 1966 the General Assembly termi-
197. In spite of those injunctions to South Mrica, that regime in Pr…
On behalf of the members of the Latin American group of States, I should like to express the great sadness that we all feel today on learning of the untimely death of Ibrahim Mohamed Al·Hamdi, the President of the Yemen Arab Republic. His death at this time has dealt a cruel blow to the people of th…
More than 12 years have elapsed since the General Assembly in resolution 2145 (XXI) terminated South Africa's Mandate over Namibia and assumed direct responsibility for its future. Sad to say, nothing has chl'~:ged to t.lW day, in spite of subsequent decisions and resolutions of the Security Council…
M 12 years have elapsed since the General Ass resolution 2145 (XXI) terminated South Africa's over Namibia and assumed direct responsibility future. Sad to say, nothing has changed to this day of subsequent decisions and resolutions of the Council and the Assembly reinforcing that fun decision regar…
