UNITED NATIONS GeneralAssembly EXEMPlA~f,ES D'ARCH1VES FilECOpy ~retourngriReturntoDistribUtiOn C.111 Fortieth session GENERAL ASSEMBLYA PROVISIONAL A/40/PV.13 27September 1985 ENGLISH President: later: later:PROVISIONALVERBATIMRECORD OFTHETHIRTEENTH MEETING HeldatHeadquarters, NewYork, onFriday, 27September 1985,at3p.m. , Mr.ur::PINIES Mr.MAYNARD (Vice-Pres ident) Mr.GAUCI (Vice-Pres ident)(Spain) (Bahamas) (Maltal -Address byMwalimu Ju1ius K.Nyerere, President oftheUnitedRepublic of Tanzania General debate [9](continued) Statements weremadeby: Mr.Barry(Ireland) Mr.Andrei (Romania) Mr.Aziz(Iraq) Mr.ChitH1aing (Burma) Mr.Mokolo waMpombo (Zaire) Mr.A.K.Koroma(Sierra Leone) Thisrecordcontains theoriginal textofspeeches delivered inEnglish and interpretations ofspeeches intheotherlanguages. Thefinaltextwillbeprinted intheO~ficial Records oftheGeneral Assembly. Corrections shouldbesubmitted tooriginal speeches only.Theyshouldbe sentunderthesignature ofamemberofthedelegation concerned, within oneweek, totheChief,Official Records Editing Section, Department ofConference Services, roomDC2-750, 2UnitedNations Plaza, andincorporated inacopyoftherecord. 85-64075/A 3470V(E)EMS/3 A/40/PIl.13 2-5 Themeeting wascalledtoorderat3.25p.m. ADDRESS BYMWALIMU JULIUS K.NYERERE, PRESIDENT OFTHEUNITED REPUBLIC OFTANZANIA ThePRESIDENT (interpretation fromSpanish): Thisafternoon theAssembly willhearanaddress bythePresident oftheUnitedRepublic ofTanzania. Mwalirnu Julius K.Nyerere iPresident oftheUnitedRepublic ofTanzania~ was escorted intotheGeneral Assembly Hall. ThePRESIDENT (interpretation fromSpanish): OnbehalfoftheGeneral Assembly, Ihavethehonourtowelcome totheunitedNations thePresident ofthe unitedRepublic ofTanzania, HisExcellency Mwalimu Julius K.Nyerere, andto invitehimtoaddress theGeneral Assembly. President UYERERE: OnbehalfoftheGovernment andthepeopleofthe unitedRepublic ofTanzania, Iwishtocongratulate you,Sir,onyourelection as President oftheGeneral Assembly duringthisfortieth anniversary session ofour Organization. Ioffermyverybestwishesforasession which,asweallhope, will,underyourleadership, contribute substantially toworldpeaceandjustice. Tanzania attaches verygreatimportance totheunitedNations andtoour membership ofthisOrganization. Aswehav~alwaysunderstood it,theUnited Nations wascreated asaresult, andalsobecameanexpression, ofthespiritof internationalism engendered bythelessons ofthe1939-1945 war,andofthe economic misery andinstability whichhadpreceded it;fortheestablishment ofthe UnitedNations anditsinstitutions wasinspired byarecognition thatpeaceand war,poverty andinstability wereworldissuesrequiring theco-operation ofall peoples andallnations. TheUnitedNations anditsagencies werethusbasedon thephilosophy thatallnations hadequalrightsandduties, although therewere reservations asregards theSecurity Council andsomeofthespecialized agencies.I IBCT/at A/40/PV.13 6 (President Nyerere) Inanimportant sensetheUnitedNations grewmoretrulyinternationalist duringitsfiret2Syears. Fortheunderlying internationalism whichthen irresistible demands ofcolonial peoples forfreedom andjustice -hadtheresult ofgradually increasing themember&hip ofthisOrganization. Promamembership of SOnations in1945, ~ehavegrownto159.ThisAssembly isnowreally representative oftheworld. Assuch,theGeneral Assembly doesinpractice havethe·automatic majority· whichitsdetractors sometimes complain about.Itsmajority iscompost.'Ci of representatives ofnations whicharepoorandunderdeveloPed -andmostlymembers oftheNon-Aligned Movement. Theeffectonthisbodyissimilar tothatwithin 8parliament whenvotesare extended tomoreandmorecitizens untilthereisadultsUffrage. Theinterests of themajority -thepoorerorless-educated citizens -thenhavetobetakeninto account byanelected Government unlessitembarks uponanauthoritarian policyof systematic repression. TheGeneral Assembly hasbecometheworldforum-theonly worldforum-wherethepoorandunderdeveloPed cancontribute theirideasand