Statement By His Excellency President R.g.mugabe

[rebelAfrika]

STATEMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY PRESIDENT R.G.MUGABE
Permanent Mission of the Republic of Zimbabwe
to the United Nations
STATEMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY PRESIDENT R.G.MUGABE AT THE 60th SESSION
OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UNITED NATIONS
18 SEPTEMBER, 2005
NEW YORK


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Your Excellency the President of the 60th Session of the United
Nations General Assembly,
Mr. Jan Elliasson,
Your Majesties,
Your Excellencies Heads of State and Government,
Your Excellency the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Kofi
Annan ,Distinguished
Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen.

Mn President,

Allow me to extend to you our since re congratulations on your
assumption of the Presidency of the 60th Session of the General
Assembly, and to express our confidence in your ability to
guide our work throughout the Session. In the same breath, let me also
express our appreciation to your predecessor, Mr. Je an Ping, for
managing successfully the very difficult business of the 59th Session.
Mr. President, Although we began our last Session with a weighty
agenda, we were able to reach general agreement on a number of
important issues in the area of development. We are yet to agree on
other pressing issues, such as the reform of the Security Council and
the composition of a new Human Rights Council.

Mr. President,

For many years, we have spoken in favour of an approach to
international peace and security that is firmly rooted on the
principle of multilateralism and the provisions of the Charter of
the United Nations. We maintain that any diversion from this approach
is unacceptable, undesirable and devoid of legal justification. We are
pleased to note that the majority of views expressed during the last
Session reinforced this principle. Our expectation is that the
Security Council, in its current form, or in whatever character and
composition it will eventually take, will, like all other bodies of
the United Nations, limit itself to what is contained in its mandate.
We do not subscribe to the suggestion that all problems, social,
cultural, economic, and health, among others, are necessarily threats
to international peace and security and that they should therefore be
referred to the Security Council.

Recently, we witnessed the United Kingdom abusing its privilege and
acting dishonestly as a member of the Council by seeking to score
cheap political points in its bilateral dispute with us. We were
dragged on to the Council's agenda over an issue that has no relevance
to the maintenance of international peace and security. Let me pay
tribute, Mr. President, to those members of the Security Council who
saw through this cheap politicking and manipulation of procedures,
which the same country, by the way, has vowed to resume as soon as the
Council is appropriately chaired. It is my hope that Member countries
will join us in rejecting this neocolonialist attempt and blatant
interference in the internal affairs of Zimbabwe. But, then, is it
not obvious that Britain, under the regime of Tony Blair, bas ceased
to respect the Charter of the United Nations? Witness its being a
principal member of the anti-Iraq illegal Coalition that went on a
devastating campaign of the country in complete defiance of the United
Nations Charter! Any state or group of States that commits such an act
of aggression on another, justifying it on blatant falsehoods, surely
becomes guilty of state terrorism.

Mr. President,

Zimbabwe is a country at peace with itself and with its neighbours and
offers absolutely no threat to international peace and security. Is it
not, therefore, surprising that Britain and its Anglo-Saxon allies
have embarked on a vicious campaign of first peddling blatant lies
intended to tarnish it and secondly appealing to Europe and America
for sanctions against it? These imperialist countries have unashamedly
abused the power of the media by hypocritically portraying themselves
as philanthropists and international saviours of victims of various
calamities. And yet, Mr. President, they have remained silent about
the shocking circumstances of obvious State neglect surrounding the
tragic Gulf Coast disaster, where a whole community of mainly
non-whites was deliberately abandoned to the ravages of Hurricane
Katrina as sacrificial lambs; and sacrificed to which god, one
cannot tell. Most of the victims were Blacks, and we are bound to ask
what transgressions we, the blacks of this world, have committed? Was
it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were
uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts
but also domestically, that is also at home through a vicious system
of colonialism? Must we again, in this day of humanitarian ethics,
this day of the sacred principles of equality of mankind and the
rights of man and woman, this day that has seen us assemble here to
save, enhance and prolong life, become victims of callous racial
neglect? We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should
continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races. We
reiterate our deep sympathies and condolences over the massive loss of
lives that occurred in the Katrina Hurricane disaster!

If, as we are told, many who survived the wrath of Hurricane Katrina
are still on dispersal, the question we ask in our minds is where they
are and for how long will they remain dispersed? We ask further
whether they will ever get back, truly rehabilitated, to their
original homes, at present mere wreckages? Where is the
Zimbabwe-famous Habitat, I ask? Why should it maintain ominous
silence? For here is real work of the homeless for it! This, indeed,
is where it rightly belongs and not anywhere in Zimbabwe!

Mr. President,

With reference to the vexatious issue of the reform of the Security
Council, we have made our views known through the African Union. We
seek fair and equal treatment as partners in this community of
nations, and pledge our commitment to working with others in pursuit
of that objective.

Mr. President,

The promotion of human rights is one of the major aims of the United
Nations as enshrined in its Charter. As such, the subject rightly
occupies space on the agenda of each Session of the General Assembly,
including this one. We believe that the United Nations should make
every effort to promote and protect the full enjoyment of human
rights, including the right to development. Regrettably, we have seen
over the years, a deliberate tendency to create a distorted hierarchy
of rights with the sole mischievous purpose of overplaying civil and
political rights, while down-playing economic, social and cultural
rights. This explains why the whole human rights agenda, instead of
being a cooperative exercise, bas degenerated into a Western-managed
kangaroo court, always looking out for `criminals' among developing
countries. Hence we continue to argue that the human rights discourse
needs to be rid of selectivity and double standards and to be
approached without hidden political agendas.

Mr. President,

The African Union has indicated its support for the establishment of a
Human Rights Council that will be subordinated to the General
Assembly. Zimbabwe subscribes fully to that position. We believe,
however, that a correctly-sized and properly structured Council,
with equitable geographical representation, will be a major step in
addressing the deficiencies of the current Commission on Human Rights.
Mr. President, At the beginning of the last Session, I informed this
august Assembly that, despite the recurrent droughts that we had
experienced, Zimbabwe had a capacity to cope with its situation of
hunger and was thus not appealing for humanitarian intervention. In
spite of that message, our detractors and ill-wishers have been
projecting a false picture of mass starvation. There has been none of
that. Recently, particularly in the aftermath of our urban clean-up
operation, popularly known as Operation Muramb atsvina or Restore
Order, the familiar noises re-echoed from the same malicious prophets
of doom, claiming that there was a humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe.
Those unfounded alarms are aimed at deliberately tarnishing the image
of Zimbabwe and projecting it as a failed state. We find it strange
and obviously anomalous that the Government of Zimbabwe should be
maligned and condemned for restoring order and the rule of law in its
municipal areas. Our detractors fail to acknowledge that Operation
Restore Order soon gave way to a wellplanned vast reconstruction
programme through which properly planned accommodation, factory shells
and vending stalls are being constructed in many areas of the count ry
for our people. We have rejected the scandalous demand, as expressed
in the Special Envoy's Anna Tibaijuka's Report, that we lower our
urban housing standards to allow for mud huts, bush latrines and pit
toilets as suitable for the urban people of Zimbabwe and for Africans
generally. Nothing can be more insulting and degrading of a people
than that! Surely, we do not need development in reverse.

Let me conclude, Mr. President, by making my message to our detractors
very simple and clear. The people of Zimbabwe came through a
protracted guerilla struggle to establish themselves as a free and
sovereign Nation. We indeed went through long and bitter times to
get our freedom and Independence and to be where we are today. We
cherish that hard-won freedom and Independence, and no amount of
coercion, political, economic, or otherwise, will make us a colony
again. But we also cherish peace and development, and good regional
and international relations. Together with all nations of goodwill, we
will continue to work tirelessly for a just, peaceful and prosperous
world.

I thank you.
RGM/jm

[XXPANTHAXX]

Let me conclude, Mr. President, by making my message to our detractors
very simple and clear. The people of Zimbabwe came through a
protracted guerilla struggle to establish themselves as a free and
sovereign Nation. We indeed went through long and bitter times to
get our freedom and Independence and to be where we are today. We
cherish that hard-won freedom and Independence, and no amount of
coercion, political, economic, or otherwise, will make us a colony
again. But we also cherish peace and development, and good regional
and international relations. Together with all nations of goodwill, we
will continue to work tirelessly for a just, peaceful and prosperous
world.

Uhuru RA for this speech... Im looking for the audio now.. if you run across it holla atcha boy..

[Jahness]

Greetings rebelafrika!

Again another nation is stating to the world the trick and
manipulative games amerikkka and britian is playing with
peoples lives.

President mugabe should continue to advocate for the
changes similar to what Chavez is asking for.

One thing I hope is that both Mugabe and Chavez as well
as all nations who believe in equal rights and justice for
the worlds citizens will come together and put and end to
that mad house called the united nations.

The united nations is totally controlled by the united snakkes.
If justice and freedom has to prevail, then that current UN
has to be destroyed. I don't believe it can be fixed, since
amerikkka has too much schemes running and plots of deception.

I think if it is moved elsewhere and given a real opportunity to
rebuild on it's intended values and principles then it might
stand a chance.

Great and excellent post rebelafrika. As usual you are on the
case for the race. I truly appreciate the information comrade.

Peace & Blessings!

[RecoveringAA]

Originally Posted by XXPanthaXX

Uhuru RA for this speech...

yo...these speechs are off the hook!!

I'd love to hear the audio's

and....



ditto what Jahness said



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