My delegation voted in favour of the amendment submitted by 14 Powers. We did so because my delegation was not able to accept the first report of the Credentials Committee. The reason for our objection to the recommendation in that report is that the Committee found in order the papers issued to the…
The question of Palestine and the closely related problem of"the Middle East have been on the agenda of the General Assembly for a long time. The Middle East- ern region again and again attracts the attention of the world community because the events taking place there are causing justified alarm an…
Last year the Gen- eral Assembly observed the twentieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples as a major achievement of the United Nations and adopted the Plan of Action for its full implementation [resolution 35/118. annex].
89. Since the …
The fact that this is the third time in a single
year that the General Assembly has discussed the ques- tion of Namibia indicates in itself the acute nature of that problem and the urgent need for its solution.
92. Notwithstanding the will and the demands expressed by the international community, …
The fo:-:::es of imperialism, hegemonism and re- action have unleashed a broad-ranging political campaign about the so-called problem of Kampuchea, which they artificially created in order to cover up their true designs against the people of Kampuchea and other peoples of Indo-China.
2. The politic…
Exactly 10 days ago. speaking on behalf of the group of Asian States on the admission of the Republic of Vanuatu to the United Nations [1st meeting]. I stated that the time was near when other peoples still deprived of their right to self-determination would exercise their inalienable right to freed…
Quite recently, the world community marked the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the historic Declaration on the Granting of Indepen- dence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. The 20 years that have gone by since then have been marked by major victories for those peoples who have fought for th…
This session of the General Assembly has once again had imposed upon it a discussion of the so-called question of "the situation in Afghanistan". The delega- tion of the "Mongolian People's Republic has repeatedly explained its position of princi.ple on this question. The consideration of this quest…
At the last session of the General Assembly, following the consideration of the question of apartheid, as wellas at previous sessions, the General Assembly adopted a whole series of resolutions condemning South Africa for the situation created in southern Africa, calling upon it to put an end to the…
Sir, permit me first ofall tojoin the previous speakers in congratulating you personally on your election to the high post of President of the thirty-fourth session of the General Assembly. I am confident that under your able and experienced guidance the Assembly will be able to ac- complish its tas…
The item which is being currently discussed in this Assembly relates purely to the internal affairs of a sovereign State, one of the full-fledged Members of our Organization. At the very outset, my delegation would like to reiterate its position of principle that the discussion of the situation in K…
Thirty years ago, on 10 December 1948, the General Assembly solemnly adopted the Universal Decla- ration of Human Rights, which was one of the first international legal documents to enshrine social, economic, political and civil human rights.
133. The provisions of the Declaration, and also the var…
