Yemen, 1982

Allow me at the outset to take this opportunity to express to Mr.

Imre Hollai my warm congratulations, personally and on behalf of the

Yemen Arab Republic, on his election as President of the thirty

seventh session of the General Assembly. We confirm to him that we

are overjoyed to see him in that important post and we wish him full

success in his tasks, which involve onerous responsibilities. We are

sure that the work of this session will be crowned with success

thanks to his expertise and acknowledged statesmanship. For our part,

we shall spare no effort in cooperating with him in carrying out his

great responsibilities in ensuring that the session does the work

required of it at this crucial phase through which our world is now

passing. We wish, through you, Sir, to put on record our well

deserved appreciation and admiration for Mr. Ismat Kittani, who

conducted the proceedings of the thirty sixty session in a brilliant

and exemplary manner, which was characterized by objectivity and

effectiveness. We wish him success in his future tasks. My delegation

wishes also to pay a tribute to the Secretary General for the

constructive efforts he has made and the commendable he has done in

the short period since his assumption of the post and for the way he

has fulfilled the responsibilities which the nature of his sensitive

task involves. I wish also to convey the greetings of the Yemeni

people to all the peace loving people of the world represented at

this annual and respected gathering.

We all know that the United Nations came into being as a result of

the strong desire and determination of the peoples of the world to

avert the tragedies of further world wars. This resolve reflects the

sincere and profound conviction that it is necessary that peace and

security prevail throughout the world and that we end, once and for

all, all violence, aggression, military threats, hegemony,

intervention and colonialism in any form. Therefore, in the minds of

all, the United Nations is linked with noble concepts and superior

values, because it is the crucible of all sincere efforts to achieve

peace and the supremacy of justice in all dimensions, and the

starting point for efforts that will lead to understanding and

solidarity among nations, instead of division and wars.

For this reason, my country has reaffirmed more than once its

commitment and adherence to the principles of the Charter and its

noble purposes in all fields, for this is the proper way to establish

normal and peaceful relations among all nations and solid guarantees

of the achievement of international peace and security. Therefore all

Member States should support the Organization in its constructive

role and should abide by its resolutions more loyally than ever

before. We should combine our efforts to ensure that the basic

principles of the sovereignty, equality and independence of all

nations, regardless of size, position, military strength, or social,

economic or political system, will prevail.

We in the Yemen Arab Republic, too, support the right to self

determination and full and effective independence of all peoples that

suffer under the yoke of imperialism and racial domination and that

struggle to achieve the noble goal to which we aspire. At the same

time we affirm our unshakable belief in the need to ensure the unity

and territorial integrity of all nations and non intervention in

their internal affairs. We also affirm the right of all nations to

self determination, and, above all, the right of the Palestinian

people to self determination, to return to its homeland and to

establish an independent State on its own soil.

We view with a sense of gratification the efforts exerted by the

United Nations to preserve international solidarity, support

liberation causes and to ensure well being and economic and social

development everywhere. However, we look forward to further

achievements, because the Organization can achieve more than it has

already. It can redouble its efforts towards international peace and

security, the assurance of justice for all the peoples that long for

it in Palestine, in Lebanon, and in Namibia, and the greatest good of

the whole world by providing norms and safeguards that guarantee

respect for and compliance with the resolutions of the Organization.

Proceeding from this premise, we support every detail of the report

of the Secretary General on the work of the Organization and on

increasing its efficiency and overcoming the difficulties that stand

in its way. These difficulties represent a real challenge that should

be faced by all Member States if we want the Organization to be a

real instrument for the consolidation of peace, which we all so

deeply desire, and of justice, to which we all aspire.

The Yemen Arab Republic reaffirms its belief in fundamental human

rights, the dignity of the individual and the promotion of

international peace and security, and calls for continuous dialogue

and permanent understanding among nations and peoples. It calls for

resistance to dominating influences, no matter by whom, and seeks to

widen the scope of cooperation among brother and friendly countries.

It deplores more deeply than ever before the fact that these

principles in which the international community came to believe after

painstaking and agonizing experiences are not being effectively

implemented in international relations, which causes us to look to

the future with deep pessimism and concern.

We do not have to look very far to confirm this prognosis. It is

sufficient to consider the development of the international situation

since the last regular session of the General Assembly. Many of the

international conflicts have worsened and become more complex and

serious. Many of the problems raised during the thirty sixth session

and even before that, at previous sessions, remain unresolved; they

have become more complicated and it will be more difficult to solve

them in the near future.

What shall we say to the deprived, the persecuted, those that yearn

for justice for freedom and for the support of the international

community? What shall we tell the displaced, the wounded, the maimed

and murdered Lebanese and Palestinians who have appealed to the

Organization and the conscience of the world, because their rights

have been usurped and they have been the victims of aggressors in

their own home and in the refugee camps? Shall we tell them that the

Security Council, the organ responsible for the maintenance of

international peace and security, has been convened more than once in

order to consider the abominable aggression by Israel against Lebanon

and that each time the representative of a super Power, the United

States of America, used its right of veto in order to obstruct the

cessation of the massacres in Lebanon whose victims were men, women

and children, and to obstruct the imposition of sanctions upon Israel

in accordance with the Charter?

What is the responsibility of the United States concerning the issues

of international peace and security in the world after all that? For

some time past Lebanon has been persistently complaining of the

violation by Israel of the cease fire agreement through repeated

Israeli aggression against southern Lebanon and through the violation

of the independence and national sovereignty of the country and the

support extended to the rebels against Lebanese authority.

Today we face a new situation after the barbaric invasion of Lebanon

by land, by sea and from the air. Towns and villages were destroyed,

including the capital, Beirut. Houses were pulled down over their

occupants and the most sophisticated internationally prohibited means

of destruction were used. Despite all that Israel is still there,

engaged in occupying, usurping, murdering and destroying with

impunity, ' assured of the military, political and economic support

of the United States without which it could not have continued its

aggression. It is really surprising and at the same time revolting

that the United States and some other Western countries did not use

their influence early and still have not done so to compel Israel to

withdraw from Lebanon and to stop the bloodshed and the daily

massacres that Israel has committed on Lebanese territory, it is

terrible that the United States should claim to preserve

international peace when it supports Israel, which currently

represents the greatest and the gravest threat to international peace

and security. This claim, which clearly involves a contradiction, has

practically disclosed the role of the United States in supporting the

Israeli aggression against Lebanon and in focusing American diplomacy

on the ousting of the Palestine Liberation Organization from Lebanon,

without linking it to the recognition of the inalienable rights of

the Palestinian people, including their right to self determination

and to establish their own independent State on their soil.

We wonder how the United States can reconcile its international

responsibilities concerning international peace and security and its

strategic cooperation with the State of Israel which today represents

the most dangerous regional military Power seeking expansion and

hegemony over the Middle East region. We consider this cooperation

and this alliance to be the factor that encourages Israel to persist

in its aggression against Lebanon and that it has an adverse effect

on all efforts aimed at reaching a just solution to the conflict in

the Middle East.

The Yemen Arab Republic has heard more than enough words of

condemnation and denunciation they will not return rights to those

who have been deprived of them and will not restore life to an

innocent child killed by the American war machine and Zionist hands.

Words of denunciation have become unacceptable from those who could

have influenced events, especially those who knew in advance what was

to happen in Lebanon and could have prevented it. We firmly believe

that the new Zionist arrogance and Israeli terrorism, immune to

international resolutions, its arrogance with regard to all norms and

legal instruments, and the constant acts of aggression, have proved

more than ever before that Israel is not a peace loving State and

that it should not have a voice in the Organization, which is made up

of all the peace loving nations. All the Members of the Organization

should adopt practical measures against Israel and punish it for the

crimes it has perpetrated and for its breach of international peace

and security and should compel it to implement Security Council and

General Assembly resolutions concerning the inalienable rights of the

Palestinian people to self determination and to the establishment of

their State on their soil and concerning an immediate withdrawal from

Lebanon and from every bit of occupied Arab territory. It should be

compelled to pay compensation for all the material losses it has

caused and the leaders of the new Fascist Zionist terrorism should be

prosecuted for their inhuman unprecedented massacres, devoid of all

human feelings. Israel has become the true and indisputable

representative of neo Nazism at its worst.

Israel thinks that if it destroys Lebanon it could put an end to the

Palestinian presence and to the Lebanese national movement and get

rid of the PLO, thus achieving the security and stability it seeks,

through force and through starting wars from time to time and

devising ways to increase its aggression, expansion and colonial

settlement. This sick concept led Israel to wage wars against the

Arab countries, beginning in 1948, then again in 1956, in 1967, in

1973 and finally in Lebanon in 1982. In each war Israel emerged with

a piece of land taken from a neighboring Arab country after having

usurped all Palestinian soil bit by bit. But it has not achieved

security and stability in accordance with its military concept in

spite of all that and will not achieve them; rather the contrary

holds true Israel has been a continuous source of tension and

jeopardy to international peace and security since its inception. It

is time now that Israel and its friends and allies, particularly in

the United States, should realize that security and peace in the area

can only be achieved through the recognition of the inalienable national

rights of the Palestinian people, including their right to self

determination and to the establishment of their own independent State

on their soil, under the leadership of their sole, legitimate

representative, the PLO. Without that peace and security will not be

achieved, for Israeli concepts are based on an illusion founded on

expansion and aggression.

It is now imperative for the United States to consider its unjust

biased attitude in favor of Israel if it wants to make any positive

and constructive contributions to the solution of the Palestinian

question and the Middle East crisis. It should cooperate with the

international community to compel Israel to implement General

Assembly and Security Council resolutions in the interest of

international peace and security, which have become jeopardized and

are about to collapse as a result of the wanton acts and constant

defiance of the Organization, including the flouting of its

resolutions, whether those concerning the return of Arab territories

occupied after the 1967 aggression or those concerning the right of

the Palestinian people to return home and to establish their

independent State on their soil, Palestine.

Those who advocate right, justice and peace are those who support the

rights of the Palestinian people, which are inalienable and

historical rights. Those who support Israel are aligning themselves,

through such support, with the new Israeli fascism. It would be more

appropriate to speak of peace in the Middle East if the efforts of

all those who love peace were directed towards the adoption of

practical measures to ensure the halting of Israeli arrogance and its

continual flouting of international resolutions, and to compel Israel

finally to withdraw from all the Arab countries it occupied after the

aggression of 1967, as well as to halt the judaization measures being

taken in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, to recognize the PLO as

the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, who

have been displaced, and to involve the PLO in all the efforts that

are being made to maintain peace in this sensitive area of the world

by peaceful means, since it is a main party to a conflict that has

lasted too long. That conflict has resulted in many tragedies and

many victims, so many that it is now no longer a military and

political conflict alone but a problem that is a daily torment to the

living conscience of mankind, which is agonizing over the massacres

perpetrated by Israel against the Arab people of Palestine and

Lebanon.

The international community is today called on to impose deterrent

sanctions against the war criminals and neo Nazis who now head the

Israeli State, and who have no hesitation, in using the most heinous

methods of destruction, and weapons which are prohibited

internationally, against the peoples of the area. We are facing a new

situation, which we must consider in order to draw the proper

conclusion from it. Terrorism now has a State that protects it and

exercises it, for the first time in contemporary history. Yet this

State is a Member of the United Nations, while at the same time it

rejects United Nations resolutions, and carries out acts of

aggression, murder and repression whenever and wherever it wishes.

It is easy to understand the effect this must have on the future of

peace and security in the area, and even in the world at large. Even

more incomprehensible than all this is the insistence of the United

States of America on giving military and political encouragement to

that terrorism, continuing to support it in international forums, and

standing by it politically in its aggressive stances by the abuse of

the veto in the Security Council every time that the international

community tries to impose practical sanctions against Israeli

arrogance and evil practices that defy the reason and the

imagination, particularly those hideous massacres of Palestinian

women, children and old people in Beirut.

Those who could have prevented the aggression and could have

compelled Israel to refrain from entering Beirut or the Palestinianrefugee

camps will stand before mankind as responsible for the inhuman and

criminal massacres in the camps of Sabra and Shatila. The United

States of America cannot escape its responsibility for those

genocidal crimes, committed in violation of the ethics and honor of

mankind, because it undertook responsibility for the process of

negotiation and for the supervision of the evacuation of the

Palestinian fighters from Beirut, providing all necessary political

guarantees to protect those who remained behind. But it appears that

the credibility of United States policy and ethics completely

collapses whenever Israel is concerned. That fact should be noted by

everyone.

We deeply deplore this situation, and we doubt the integrity of the

role played by the United States of America in the area, after the

last farce of American diplomacy in Beirut. We call on the

Organization to stand firmly against Israeli Nazism, which has today

become the major challenge to all peace loving nations. We also

believe that the international prosecution of all the criminals and

murderers responsible for the Beirut massacres is an essential

requirement for mankind, after the commission of such crimes amid the

shocked silence of the international community, to ensure that no

such hideous massacres are repeated by those in Israel who thirst for

more blood and would not hesitate to commit such murders again in the

near future. Those who were responsible yesterday for the massacres

of Deir Yassin and Qafr Qasim are responsible today for the massacres

and hideous murders in west Beirut. Unless the international

community hastens to shoulder its full responsibilities, inexorable

tragedy will be inflicted on the Palestinian and Lebanese people, and

on the peoples of the whole area.

My country has more than once expressed its profound concern over the

terrorism and piracy in the area, and the acts of oppression,

repression and torture that Israel is committing against the Arab

population in the occupied territories, a population living under and

unjust rule and inhuman laws while their territories are occupied and

settlements are being built on areas taken from the neighboring Arab

countries by coercion and aggression. My delegation calls on all

nations and peoples firmly to denounce and condemn such Israeli acts

based on aggression, oppression and expansionism, and it calls for

the imposition of all possible stringent political and economic

sanctions against Israel, to compel it to act in compliance with the

will of the international community, withdraw from the occupied

territories and restore to the Palestinian people their legitimate

rights.

We attach great importance to the work of the current session. We

call on it to meet its responsibilities of working for peace,

rekindling the hopes that have become dimmed and restoring confidence

to all those who have become so disillusioned through seeing the

repeated acts of aggression carried out by the racist Pretoria

regime, which is committing crimes of murder, torture and oppression

against the majority of the people of South Africa, as well as

committing with impunity repeated acts of aggression against the

people of Namibia and the peace loving front line States.

The present collaboration between the two racist entities in Tel Aviv

and Pretoria has resulted in acts of murder, oppression, torture and

Apartheid surpassing anything known previously. In recent years those

two entities have begun to exchange information on nuclear research

and the production of nuclear weapons with a view to the imposition

of terrorism and imperialism in the area.

My country firmly and unconditionally believes in and supports the

liberation movements in the world, foremost among which are the PLO

and the South West Africa People's Organization, and reaffirms that

the Namibian problem will never be solved and the occupation of

Namibia can never be ended unless the Organization continues its

efforts, upon which the people of Namibia pin all their hopes of

freedom and independence. We believe that the implementation of

United Nations resolutions, particularly Security Council resolution

435 (1978), represents the practical basis for solving that problem,

which has been complicated and burdened with further ramifications as

a result of the defiance of South Africa and at its rejection of the

United Nations resolutions designed to end its illegitimate

occupation of Namibia.

The United Nations indeed the whole world has condemned South Africa

for its shameful racist policy which is exercised by force against

the black majority and for its inhuman torture, persecution and exile

of the black people in South Africa. The Pretoria regime even boasts

of committing these crimes and is competing with its permanent ally,

the Zionist regime, in finding new means of repression and

humiliation and establishing settlements.

The Namibian issue must emerge from its situation of stagnation,

especially since the United Nations devoted a special session of the

General Assembly to discussing the Namibian question in all its

aspects. It must not remain a source of tension and trouble in Africa

and continue to threaten world peace and security. The world M living

today in a state of economic imbalance. The rich of this world are

becoming increasingly rich and the poor increasingly poor. As a

result of this grave division, which rests on inequality, the gap is

increasing day by day and a sense of responsibility and enthusiasm in

regard to setting of the new economic system based on justice and

equality and building new world economic and monetary structures is

today more urgent than ever before. But enthusiasm alone is not

sufficient: it is necessary to crystallize the strong political will

that can redress the frightening imbalance and redistribute wealth

instead of confining it to certain Powers. We must constantly bear in

mind the interest of all parties.

The emergence of negative phenomena in world economic life, such as

the increasing protectionist trend in the markets of the

industrialized countries, the fluctuations of the exchange rate and

the skyrocketing of interest rates on food commodities, consumer

goods and capital goods have led to the deterioration of world trade

conditions and the enormous deficits in the balance of payments of

developing countries.

The increasing indebtedness of these countries year after year, added

to the deterioration of the economic and social growth rate therein,

results in these developing countries alone paying the price and

sacrificing their development in the interest of the rich,

industrialized countries. Hence, the General Assembly is called on to

give this subject increased attention and study in order to correct

the imbalance in international economic relations and to take action

to achieve more progress in the negotiations concerning this

question, having regard to its importance to the international

community in general and to the interests of developing countries in

particular.

The peoples of the third world cannot remain forever a source and

exporter of raw materials and a market place for manufactured goods.

It is not in the interest of the international community these States

remain in a condition of economic impotence, unable to cope with

their financial obligations towards others. Consequently, it is

necessary to achieve constant development and progress in these

countries. But the modernization and development process is linked in

its tum to science and technology and the method of the transfer of

such science and technology to developing countries, with the help of

those who are more advanced in those areas, in order to promote their

scientific capability and their administrative and technological know

how. That must be done if we really want to avoid more crises and

deterioration in the world economy,

We can all achieve prosperity and happiness for mankind at large if

we work with a common approach and if the developed countries pledge

themselves to a courageous monetary reform, to revise their present

economic policies and increase their development investments in the

developing countries in order to alleviatethe suffering and

deprivation of the people of those countries and restore some balance

and harmony to the troubled world economy. There is no doubt but that

the promotion of the specialized world financial institutions in the

United Nations system in the field of economic and social development

constitutes a direct contribution to the achievement of the well

being of mankind. Mutual respect, non interference in the internal

affairs of States and the settlement of disputes by peaceful means,

the freedom of each State to decide on its own its economic and

social structures in accordance with its national and political

options constitute a sure guarantee of cooperation and peaceful and

constructive coexistence and represent the appropriate process for

promoting the policy of international detente. The Arab Republic of

Yemen, which has founded its policy on respect for nation sovereignty

and the exchange of interests and economic benefits with others in

accordance with the principle of equality, rejects totally the policy

of hegemony and military force in international relations, as it

rejects also, absolutely, the principle of setting up military pacts,

bases and facilities. It is greatly concerned over the emergence of

signs of tension and cold war between the Western and Eastern World

and the pursuit of aggressive practices by some States and the

negative impact that this has on international relations, in addition

to endangering the independence, sovereignty and territorial

integrity of the States of the world to danger.

Signs of deterioration in international relations have become more

tangible today than ever before as a result of the use of military

force in solving international disputes and of interference in the

internal affairs of States and the persistence of the frightful arms

race, especially in the nuclear field. This constitutes a threat to

mankind that could have the gravest results. Consequently, all States

must take the necessary measures to improve international relations,

promote the policy of detente and peaceful coexistence, affirm

international legitimacy and define means of making the concept of

disarmament a tangible fact ensuring security to the human community

and happiness to mankind. The super Powers, the United States and the

Soviet Union, must renew their Talks for limiting nuclear weapons and

to eliminate all obstacles that are impeding the pursuit of these

negotiations. Complete disarmament and the cessation of the nuclear

arms race have become two vital prerequisites for all the peoples of

the world that are looking forward to the day when this feverish race

towards destructive arms will come to an end so that mankind may feel

secure about its existence and future so that the efforts and money

wasted on the manufacture, purchase, and stockpiling of weapons can

be diverted to solving the crushing economic crisis from which many

peoples of the world are suffering, and to meeting the material and

spiritual needs of men. The second special session devoted to

disarmament was a golden opportunity to hear all the opinions and

concepts on which future negotiations should be based.

For us, peace is an essential and noble objective. We must exert

maximum efforts to promote peace everywhere in the world, for there

is nothing more precious and more important to all the peoples than

peace. But we feel disappointed and suffer when we see that hatred

and war have replaced love and understanding among States and

peoples. Peace has been shattered today in some parts of the world,

such as the Arab Gulf, the Horn of Africa and the Falkland Islands.

Arbitration, mediation and peaceful and diplomatic solutions are much

better than recourse to force, which in most cases leads to a dead

end, perpetuates grudges between peoples and obstructs the process of

cooperation and peaceful coexistence among nations.

The war between Iraq and the Islamic Republic of Iran has continued

for more than two years despite the ties of a common creed and

proximity and despite the mediation efforts exerted by the non

aligned countries and the Organization of the Islamic Conference, as

well as by the United Nations. Now Iraq has responded to those

mediation efforts and withdrawn its forces to its borders. It would

thus have put an end to hostilities but for the pretexts invoked by

Iran to continue the war and to postpone the settlement if the

conflict by negotiations and peaceful means between the two Moslem

neighbor countries. We call on Iran to seize this opportunity and

respond to the peace proposals; to cease its aggression against the

territory of Iraq and not to abandon hope of a reconciliation with

that neighboring Moslem country.

We appeal to the Organization to redouble its efforts to bring those

destructive hostilities to an end and we call on the two conciliation

committees, of the non aligned movement and the Islamic Conference,

to continue to use their good offices to bring about an end to the

war and the restoration of rights, in order that peace may once again

prevail in the lands of Iraq and Iran.

My country, which firmly believes in regional cooperation between

neighboring countries, is also interested in the maintenance of

security and stability in the region. Therefore it views with

profound concern the continuing state of tension in the Horn of

Africa and calls for the solution of the border problems and of the

historical and political problems between the nations of the area

through negotiations and peaceful means, for the sake of the peoples

of those countries and to prevent any foreign intervention in their

internal affairs under the pretext of providing aid and support to

one party or the other.

My country rejects any military presence or bases in the Indian Ocean

or the Arab Gulf. It reaffirms that the security of the Gulf and the

Arab peninsula is the responsibility of the countries of the region

and their peoples. It calls for support for the need to consider the

Indian Ocean, the Arab Sea and the Red Sea areas that should be free

from any fleets or military bases. We support the efforts made in the

Committee on the Indian Ocean and the necessity of convening the

Conference on the Indian Ocean during 1983, in accordance with

General Assembly resolution 36/90. We look forward to the day when

signs of tension will disappear one e and for all from, that

sensitive part of the world. It is extremely dangerous to let the

hotbeds of tension and conflict increase every day.

As regards Afghanistan, we reaffirm the right of the Afghan people to

self determination, free from foreign intervention of any form and

from any source. We believe that it is high time to find a peaceful

solution to that conflict, in accordance with the resolutions of the

United Nations.

On Korea, we affirm the necessity of putting an end to the dispute

between the two parts of the peninsula and of reaching a peaceful

solution of the problem, on a democratic basis, acceptable to both

parties. An encouraging environment should be provided for Korean

unity through the withdrawal of foreign forces from the area and the

seas around it.

As regards the Cypriot conflict, it is the firm position of my

country that there should be an agreed solution between the Greek

Cypriots and the Turkish Cypriots aimed at the reunification of the

island on a democratic basis which will ensure freedom of religion

and expression and civil rights for all Cypriots. The Organization

would be fulfilling its responsibility for the preservation of peace

and ending the anomalous situation in which the island finds itself

now by applying all the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly

and the Security Council and considering them a basis for settling

the Cypriot conflict.

One of the positive achievements of which we are proud in the Yemen

Arab Republic is our success in keeping our country free from

international polarization and the rivalry between the super Powers.

My country adheres firmly to the policy of non alignment and positive

neutrality. We are proud of belonging to the Organization of the

Islamic Conference and to the League of Arab States and we believe

that the continuing cooperation between the United Nations and those

organizations will undoubtedly be a crucial factor in the

implementation of many social and economic plans and will contribute

to the solution of many international political problems.

We also feel that all our endeavors should be aimed at developing our

country and raising the standard of living of our people so that we

may keep pace with other countries of the world. This is the concern

of our political leadership, under President Ali Abdulla Saleh, who

considers the issue of reunifying the two parts of Yemen to be of

extreme importance in its endeavors to achieve progress and dignity.

There have been many achievements socially, economically and

politically as regards reunifying the two parts of Yemen on a

democratic basis. We have reached the stage of periodic meetings

between the Presidents of the two parts of Yemen to consider

programmes of integration and reunification at all levels.

My country has devoted all its efforts since the revolution to

serious and pressing efforts to promote the welfare of Yemeni

citizens and provide a proper climate for the establishment of

democracy, justice and political freedom, and on this basis to

initiate a process of setting constructive goals at a high level. My

country is anxious to ensure the success of all plans beneficial to

it. It has so far been able to fulfil the essential needs of all

citizens and to set up the major infrastructures, which we consider

to be the cornerstone of production, despite the fact that the

revolution took place only a short time ago. We have the patience and

faith to continue our march and to work for reconstruction,

development and fruitful cooperation with all countries of the world

on a basis of equality, good neighborliness, mutual respect and non

intervention in the internal affairs of others, settling ail our

conflicts peacefully, so that everyone can enjoy peace and security

and we can help each other in an atmosphere of sincerity conducive to

the happiness of mankind as a whole.

Finally, I wish to thank the President and express my appreciation

and commendation of all his sincere efforts in the interest of

achieving international peace, justice and freedom.