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UND
DRAFT SPEECH
SECRETARY OF STATE'S SPEECH TO UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY:
29 SEPTEMBER 1982
[Opening passage with complimentary remarks to be
drafted later]
DSR 11C
1. The maintenance of peace; the development of good
relations between states; the promotion of social and
economic progress through international cooperation:-
those are the purposes for which the UN exists. And
once more we are gathered together to assess the extent
to which those purposes have been achieved, to discuss
the problems that face us as a world community, and to
suggest means whereby the conflicts and disputes
between us can be alleviated or resolved.
2. This year we have little cause to feel pleased with
ourselves or to congratulate each other. The world is
no more peaceful than it was twelve months ago. Most
of the problems that were with us then are with us now.
New tensions and conflicts have arisen, old ones have
got worse. Since this time last year thousands of
innocent lives have been lost. Hundreds of thousands
have been forced from their homes to swell the growing
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