Margaret Thatcher

e to achieve consensus must not prevent the willing from acting to uphold human rights and the founding principles of the United Nations. 11-51390 32 Margaret Thatcher was once reported to have said that “consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies.

ct of selfish defiance and belittling by France of the South Pacific nations' concern for their environment and legitimate rights of livelihood. Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in answer to a question from the audience while delivering a lecture at the Economic Club of New York h

never forget the airlift to Berlin. On the eve of German unification we convey our thanks to President Bush, President Mitterrand and Prime Minister Thatcher for their support, their statesmanly far-sightedness and their understanding of our nation's longing for unity. We thank our friends in the European

d on a course which is designed to prevent further deterioration of the environment. Initiatives successfully taken in recent months, particularly by Margaret Thatcher, Ruud Lubbers and Michel Rocard, as well as the Arche summit which met in Paris last July, have provided us with guidelines which should lead to urge

and leadership of the Prime Minister of Great Britain in her call for an international conference on the reduction of demand for narcotic drugs. Mrs. Thatcher has honoured me with her invitation, which I have accepted, to address the conference at its opening meeting next April. Secondly, our efforts to red

f the publication of the report of the New Ireland Forum. In November 1984 the Taoiseach. Dr. Garret FitzGerald, and the British Prime Minister, Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, met at Chequers in Britain and agreed that: "... the identities of both the majority and minority communities in Northern Ireland should be respecte

from our side. Recently Mr. Gorbachev told the world that his country trusts the United States no more than the latter trusts the Soviet Union. Mrs. Thatcher made much the same point when she said that neither side looks at each other through rose-tinted spectacles.

The two heads of Government, Mr. Fitzgerald and Mrs. Thatcher, will meet again shortly for a summit session on of the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Council. Should the two Governments jointly determine in the mo

it is one which is rightly at the centre of the international stage and rightly of concern to the United Nations and its Member States. But, as Mrs. Thatcher made clear when she addressed the twelfth special session of the General Assembly in June 1982 the causes of war do not lie in the existence of parti

of President Reagan would strengthen the friendship between the United States and the whole of Africa, as the United Kingdom succeeded in doing under Margaret Thatcher's party at the time of Zimbabwe's accession to independence. 115. The underdeveloped countries, which are today euphemistically called the "least-dev

lic. That this relationship is indeed unique was explicitly recognised by the Irish Prime Minister, Mr. Haughey, and the British Prime Minister, Mrs. Thatcher, in the communique which they issued following their talks in London in May this year. They agreed on that occasion to develop new and closer politic

en beset by so many conflicts, Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. First and foremost, I should like to pay a sincere tribute to the historic initiative taken by Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and to her Foreign Minister, my colleague Lord Peter Carrington. 204. The Conference in London is now ente

n extraordinary burden on Thailand and creating grave dangers to its security and stability. 187. When the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, proposed that an international conference be convened under the auspices of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to consider the problem of r