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snia, Georgia, Afghanistan and Iraq. I am delighted to inform the Assembly that, in that same spirit, my Government has decided to contribute another platoon to United Nations peacekeeping operations. Albania has also been a staunch supporter of international efforts to limit the proliferation of weapons

oment. Your election is an inspiration for women everywhere who are struggling to achieve equality and opportunity. You illustrate the truth that, as Plato wrote 2,400 years ago, any society that does not exploit the talents of its women is wasting half of its resources. I also wish to congratulate and t

eased its contingent to 60 police officers, and is now considering the possibility of increasing that number to 100. Bulgaria has sent an engineering platoon to join the international presence in the field.

works did nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.” In book I of The Republic, Plato made the observation that “Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.” And

erve and be faithful to those values and principles which, inherently, are unchanging. One such unchanging value is that of right — moral right: what Plato conceived of as the virtue of justice, and what in Roman law was characterized as the jus, or moral law.

e-keeping, as it is already doing in the United Nations Confidence Restoration Operation in 25 Croatia (UNCRO); it stands ready to do more. The third platoon of Lithuanian peace-keepers is now serving in Croatia within the Danish battalion. We are actively participating in the NATO Partnership for Peace

ates, the Nordic countries and the United Kingdom on a Baltic peace-keeping battalion is a good example of such cooperation. At present, a Lithuanian platoon is serving in the Danish battalion in Croatia. Keeping the peace worldwide is costly. Funds are limited, as is the number of trained and equipped t

te ambition with reality. We must not divorce the words we use from the actions we are willing to take. If we do, we may indeed succeed in building a Platonic city in speech, a United Nations which would stand only a limited chance of ever being actualized, but the down side would be to risk undermining

action to address all of the world problems, wherever they may appear? We do not believe anyone in today’s world searches for the Utopia described in Plato’s Republic or Farabi’s Ideal City. Yet everyone would like to see the United Nations made able to achieve practical solutions for world problems. For

ise, in his work entitled Political Justice. Hoffe, while occupying the Chair of ethics and political philosophy, has reminded us that "on the whole, Plato and Aristotle offered us a florilegium of reasons to demonstrate that life in common is profitable to all those participating in it". Relationships,

er that is informed, above all, with the principles of justice, appears the most likely eventuality as we approach the year 2000, if only because, as Plato said, every individual or State that is unjust contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction. And this is still valid for all mankind.

tional economic negotiations stands in stark contrast with the professions of faith in dialogue, the regularity of which can no longer disguise their Platonic nature. 359. Is it not in fact the logic of confrontation which continues to predominate? Growing protectionism with regard to the products of the

253. Let us recall that the greatest sages of all time, men we today constantly turn to for reference and guidance on human problems, like Socrates, Plato, Confucius, Mohammed, Buddha or Jesus, did not live in a mechanized world; they lived in conditions that could today be called primitive by our stand

ss. We would go still further, though we may be accused of going too far and advocating ideals that are impracticable, like many of the structures of Plato's Republic. 220. But today's world teaches us that ideals are made a reality as a result of momentum provided by progress, which cannot be stopped.

sist Portugal and, like the Arab States in regard to France when the Algerians were courageously fighting against France, we must not be content with Platonic resolutions but must establish contacts with Portugal with the purpose of starting and accelerating the inevitable process of negotiation between

However, this condemnation has remained a platonic one because the United Nations, while firm in its attitude of principle, has adopted a passive attitude on the question of carrying out these unan

that important Protocol. 78. Accordingly, it would be well for us to come to an agreement which not only guarantees observance of the prohibition in Platonic terms but also provides for the verification of compliance with this Protocol. Without the latter measure, which has already received the support

Rather than confine ourselves to declarations of intent whose results too often remain platonic, let us resolutely envisage positive action directed towards the restoration of peace where it is still not ensured, the implementation of human r

a realistic policy likely to help that minority to grow. Thus the United Nations could convene a world conference on apartheid, not in order to utter platonic condemnations but to bring together scientists, theologians of all religions, politicians, businessmen and workers from all over the world, includ

all free and peace-loving peoples. The friends of Viet-Nam also realize that it is not this cause, but exactly the opposite, which is served by mere Platonic declaration against interference in the domestic affairs of States, and that when a Government has the duty and all the means to do so, and is sin

o explore the hidden meanings of the world, to lift its veils and to clear the way for humanity in its search after the truth. 64. The schools of neo-Platonism and Stoicism, Jewish, Christian and Muslim theology, the schools of Roman law, grew, developed, and contributed to human culture within our citie

g "succeeding generations from the scourge of war". 54. On the contrary, in the conditions of today, when the matter of paramount interest is not the platonic desirability of peace but how best to ensure peace and avert nuclear catastrophe, the Moscow Treaty can with full justification be regarded as a p

o demonstrate our total attachment to right principles and purposes, were it not that our aspirations, as a nation without up-to-date weapons, are so Platonic. We leave it to others, like the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom who has ably done so, to enumerate, recount and spec

84. The United Nations is of course, it will be said, neither a world Government nor a universal parliament. Its decisions have often only moral and platonic force. But we are at least entitled to expect that it will have the courage to defend certain sacred principles—such as the right of nations and p

and women are now living in dormitories and eat in common mess halls. They are no longer members of families but of a labour brigade, a company or a platoon. Men and women rise at the call of the bugle and march to work in military formation. After twelve to fourteen hours of field work, they retire aga

nable all Member countries to expound their views to world public opinion. If the Assembly follows the practice of adopting only the most general and platonic resolutions and if they are reversed afterwards in. the United Nations organs we shall be creating a grave threat to the authority of the United N

the family. The commune militarizes the labour force. The people are no longer members of families; they are members of a labour brigade, company or platoon. They start and quit work at the bugle call. One of the theorists of the Communists, writing in their chief theoretical magazine, called The Red Fl

n, alien to human nature; it is certainly not something eternally inherent in man. The idea of establishing peace on earth was born even earlier than Plato's dream of an ideal federation of States solving all their problems without recourse to arms. 105. The first attempt to take practical steps for the

ad no information other than circumstantial and brief press reports or popular rumour. We lived, in relation to major world problems, like the men In Plato's cave with our backs to the light, seeing only on the back of the cave the fleeting shadows cast by outside events. 110. At the Conference of Foreig

, described an incident he viewed in the following words: "The other day about 400 french soldiers clambered up into hills near here. When protecting platoons were in place on the crests, 200 soldiers marched into a village, a stocky French captain in the midst of them. "The soldiers, several making mode

adhere to and honour in his dealings with his fellow man. The world has had many great teachers and philosophers such as Christ, Mohammed, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Buddha, Confucius and others who sought to lay down certain concepts of religion and moral conduct; but men, like nations, have generally

are being trained at a rate which will in future provide military leaders for 200 West German divisions. Already 50,000 unit and company commanders, platoon leaders, not to speak of senior staff, are receiving instruction. Out of the total of 37,000 million marks which the Federal Republic of Germany is

fashioned out of the same fibre as those that are in. In and out, we have merits and demerits. No one can seriously claim that we are the Republic of Plato. Our past record has shown. that sometimes we are peace-wishing, sometimes not peace- loving. Faults we have committed, and of faults we complain. Th

rld. 49. The dialogue conducted yesterday from this rostrum by Mr. Acheson and Mr. Vyshinsky afforded us an opportunity of appreciating the wisdom of Plato’s dictum that no discussion should be started without the terms to be used first being defined. It was quite plain to any listener that agreement bet

rtance in the case of Greece, a country which occupied so high a place in the history of civilization through the far-reaching influence of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Archimedes, Aeschylus and Anacreon, and the incomparable marble beauty of the mutilated Venus of Melos or the headless Victory of Samothr

osals which infringe its interests or those of other friendly or allied States. It is desired, at least, to give this dissent a form so innocuous, so platonic, that it will no longer be able to prevent a certain group of States from making themselves masters of the United Nations. Since we are on the sub