Olof Palme

of peaceful coexistence among nations are being violated. This Hall has been witness to many memorable addresses by leaders such as Salvador Allende. Olof Palme and Nelson Mandela. We should of course draw inspiration from their words. But the urgency of the challenges requires us to do more than revel in rhe

as well as improving infrastructure in every productive region of the country. We have modernized and improved our ports and airports, including the Palmerola and Ramon Villeda Morales airports, which serve major cities. Today we are seeing significant growth in the manufacturing industry to the tune of

em the people of Iceland, and asked for help in breaking the ice that was impeding their international recognition. The great British statesman, Lord Palmerston, once made a famous statement to the effect that there is no such thing as eternal friendship between nations and that only eternal interests co

ate less to the buying of weapons and more to combating poverty. Let us raise the flag of the martyr of pacifism Jean Jaurès or our great friend, the Olof Palme of Sweden. Let us demand that multilateral financial institutions include anti-armament clauses in their contracts and conditions, just as they do en

ce of impunity. It has still not been explained why the plane that kidnapped the constitutional President of Honduras made a stopover at the American Palmerola air base. The American fascist right, which Cheney symbolizes, openly supports and defends the coup. President José Manuel Zelaya must be fully,

f his home, out of his bed, at dawn on 28 June, taken to a plane, bundled up by Honduran soldiers under command from the United States base there, in Palmerola. The plane took off from Tegucigalpa and landed at the Palmerola base. They held the Honduran President there for some time. Then they decided to

ldren continue to be victims of war and conflict. Nothing can be more important than the life and health of children. The late Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme used to say that it is not meaningful to talk about 'my children and your children'; it is all about our children - the only tangible connection to t

al justice, who was educated in the Nordic tradition of social advancement and commitment to peace and democracy. Years earlier, another Swede — Olaf Palme — died, a man of peace and good will, to whom the international community bade farewell with the song of Chilean Violeta Parra, Gracias a la vida, as

ll donor Governments and organizations that have manifested their support for and solidarity with the Yemeni people. The British Prime Minister Henry Palmerston is reported to have said that the foreign policy of a country is the reflection and expression of its internal policy. And since economic and so

owing needs and expectations, on the one hand, and insufficient resources and a lack of political will, on the other. Sweden’s former Prime Minister, Olof Palme, developed this theme in a speech he gave from this rostrum 10 years ago at the special commemorative session to mark the fortieth anniversary of the

e Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund; Sadruddin Aga Khan, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for many years; the late Olaf Palme, former Prime Minister of Sweden; the late Willy Brandt, former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; Mr.

nal Act. All this is a breakthrough for the vision of a Europe without borders, for the ideas of visionary leaders like Jean Monnet, Willy Brandt and Olof Palme. After confrontation and rearmament, we have dialogue and co-operation. The final victor on the European continent is democracy itself. For all of us

the United States and members of both Western European and American human rights movements, writers and politicians, people like Francois Mitterrand, Olof Palme and Andrei Sakharov, all of whom have supported us through personal contacts. I am naming but a few of those who have always known that the struggle

on the instruments of war. But the Charter's promise was not kept. Some years ago, the Independent Commission on International Security Issues - the Palme Commission - recommended a structure for preventive peace-keeping, involving fact-finding missions and military, collective security forces, all to b

val. In these endeavours there is no alternative to a strong global organization. In closing, I should like to quote the late Swedish Prime Minister, Olof Palme, who said: "we look at our world today and remain convinced that the United Nations is only at the beginning of its history." (A/40/PV.43, p. 64)

way that peace and security will ultimately be guaranteed is by universal acceptance of the principles of common security so well articulated by the Palme Commission in 1982, the thrust of whose conclusions is that no country can guarantee its own security by threatening others and that real security is

report of the Independent Commission on Disarmament and Security Issues, set up by the United Nations General Assembly in 1982 and headed by the late Olof Palme, deserves greater attention. That report, entitled "Common security -a programme for disarmament", draws the conclusions that the well-worn path of m

nsequences could be devastating. There is reason to recall the ideas on a more even scale of assessments put forward by Sweden's late Prime Minister, Olof Palme, at the fortieth anniversary of the United Nations. That would be one way of making the world Organization less vulnerable. As things stand now, the

t style. In that period, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the siege of Beirut took place prominent international leaders such as Indira Gandhi and Olof Palme were assassinated; the USSR suffered in a very short time the loss of its top State and Party leaders, Comrade Leonid Brezhnev and his successors, Co

and realistic policies have taken root in the world community and are now sprouting. That is borne out by documents of the Non-Aligned Movement. The Palme Commission has been developing a concept of "common security". The Secretary-General, in his report on the work of the Organization, stresses a new c

l note here for his efforts and his good offices. It would also be appropriate to remember the good name of the late Swedish Prime Minister, Mr. Olaf Palme, who, as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, sympathetically tried to help. The Secretary-General's trip to Tehran and the useful ta

specific calls for peace, and no effort has been spared to initiate peace negotiations. We all remember the efforts deployed to this end by the late Olof Palme. We believe that the Security Council should make another solemn appeal for a cease-fire and a return to peace. Should such an appeal go unheeded, it

his context we should like to underline the point made in the report of the Independent Commission on Disarmament and Security Issues, chaired by Mr. Olof Palme, the late Prime Minister of Sweden, that international peace must rest on a commitment to joint survival rather than on the threat of mutual destruct

rder between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries and the Warsaw Treaty countries - a task to which the Swedish statesman the late Olof Palme devoted his life. Europe is the continent with the highest concentration of warfare capabilities. It is the region where the two major alliances and

tieth session of the General Assembly in such an able and successful manner. At this juncture, we feel it is our duty to pay tribute to the memory of Olof Palme, a statesman who fought untiringly for the cause of peace and development. His ideas will continue to inspire peoples and direct the actions of Gover

ore important, we look at our world today and remain convinced that the United Nations is only at the beginning of its history." (A/40/PV. 43, p. 64) Olof Palme was right. The United Nations is an indispensable forum for co-operation between States in an increasingly interdependent world. We, the Members of t

Brandt, Palme, the Panel of Eminent Personalities, the Secretary-General*, these are among a long list of authorities who have described the contradiction between

It was, therefore, a tragic irony that during the first weeks of the Year of Peace, Olaf Palme, without any doubt one of the most fervent and generous fighters for peace in this century, should fall victim to the darkest and most cowardly form

m can extend its implacable cruelty. It is unpardonable that a man of peace of the stature and greatness of the former Prime Minister of Sweden, Olaf Palme, to whom I render tribute, should fall victim to fanatical and senseless violence. I believe we should focus all our energies on ways to counteract t

particular, the elements of a peaceful solution presented to the parties by the Secretary-General should be recalled. The Swedish Prime Minister, Mr. Olof Palme, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, is closely following the development of the conflict and remains in contact with the parties concer

ts own defence, is no longer applicable in today's world. Nor is the United Nations equipped in its present form to play this role. As Prime Minister Olof Palme, of Sweden, Chairman of the Independent Commission on Disarmament and Security Issues, points out in his report, "Common Security", the present Unite

ries is essential in itself, but it also serves to promote recovery in the industrialized countries. We are not lacking ideas—both the Brandt and the Palme Commissions have presented guidelines for action. Sweden regrets that so far it has not been possible to start global negotiations within the framewo

d Security Centre. Furthermore, the United States has more than a thousand experts in Honduras, of whom 950 form the logistical support contingent of Palmerola Air Base at Comayagua, in the centre of the country. 150. In the same way, Guatemala is becoming a possible springboard for Yankee military inter

ns on how to strengthen the United Nations collective security system. The Independent Commission on Security and Disarma¬ment Issues, chaired by Mr. Olof Palme of Sweden, has also made a number of interesting recommen¬dations on the same subject." I urge the Security Council to consider these recommendations

rter. 105. In this context, we applaud the report of the Independent Commission on Disarmament and Security Issues prepared under the chairmanship of Olof Palme and entitled "Common Security-a program for disarmament. That report stresses the Importance of survival, rather than the annihilation that threatens

phasize the possibilities which none the less are available. The Independent Commission on Disarmament and Security Issues, under the chairmanship of Olof Palme, consisted, like the Brandt Commission, of people with varying backgrounds and political convictions.

ain sources of tension in the world might lead to. 248. The Independent Commission on Disarmament and Security Issues, under the chairmanship of Olaf Palme, has produced a report which is excellent. This report proposes that you, Mr. Secretary- General, be entrusted with the task of presenting periodical

expenditure on arms, for, in the words of the report of the Independent Commission on Disarmament and Security Issues, under the chairmanship of Olaf Palme, now Sweden's head of Government, they have assumed a sort of deadening familiarity. Effective resolution of the disarmament issue depends primarily

ndency has to be reversed and that the vicious circle of mistrust and arms build-up must be broken our goal must be common security, as stated in the Palme report:^ International security must rest on a commitment to joint survival rather than on a threat of mutual destruction. 107. If we agree that mili

als during the course of this year. 180. We hope that those and other mediation efforts, including that undertaken by the United Nations, through Mr. Olof Palme, will succeed in bringing to an end this fratricidal war, which has placed in jeopardy the security of the entire Gulf region.

g hindered by the continuation of the conflict. The efforts of the United Nations in sending the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Olof Palme, to help lead the parties onto a course of peaceful settlement have the wholehearted support of the Swedish Government. The parties should explore ev

pread support. 36. A commission for disarmament and international security, consisting of representatives from the East, West and South and headed by Olof Palme, was recently established at Vienna.

, on one hand, and world Zionism, on the other. Zionism has acted in concert with the imperialists in Britain ever since the nineteenth century, with Palmerston, Shaftesbury and Disraeli, and later with Chamberlain, Herbert Samuel, Lloyd George and Balfour, the author of the well-known Declaration. 59. I

the fraternal people of Algeria, who for seven years were sacrificed on the altar of bigotry and colonial tyranny, whose defenceless villages were napalmed and gassed, burnt and bombed because of their heroic struggle for their right to self-determination — they are the martyrs. The blood of those Afric