IVORY COAST: FOREIGN MINISTER ARSENE USHER ADDRESSES AMBASSADORS ON "THE THIRD WORLD"
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IVORY COAST: FOREIGN MINISTER ARSENE USHER ADDRESSES AMBASSADORS ON "THE THIRD WORLD"
- Title: IVORY COAST: FOREIGN MINISTER ARSENE USHER ADDRESSES AMBASSADORS ON "THE THIRD WORLD"
- Date: 5th December 1970
- Summary: 1. SV Usher enters hall 0.11 2. SV Usher speaks 2.34 TRANSCRIPT: SEQ. 2: USHER: "The two super-powers think they have the most to lose. The Soviet Union wants to preserve its gains from revolution, while the United States want to protect their enormous economic and industrial riches. Also the super-powers have taken to leading their blocs. They try to maintain the cohesion of their won camps, and to reinforce their influence, which is contested from time to time. The struggle is continuous. The world has become a vast chess-board; each of the great nations places its pawns. Each error by the one is exploited by the other. The struggle is ceaseless. It is carried on at second-hand, with the two great powers eyeing each other warily. The Third World must convince itself that colonialism, after a splendid imperial agony, is really dead, and that there is no sign that the former metropolitan powers still want to take possession of our countries. The phenomenon which we have denounced and which we still do denounce, springs from a normal law of economics, which, in the balance of power now prevailing, ought to become humanised. Accordingly, the riches of the world, under the influence of a just law of commerce, will be equitably shared. The massive force of an exploding world population will be met by a proportional expansion in world food production. Paraphrasing President Houphouet-Boigny, I conclude to the industrialised and rich nations: 'Your clear interest is to give aid to the poor nations'". Initials CM/AS/SGM/0127 CM/AS/SGM/0149 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: Abidjan, I. Coast
- Country: Ivory Coast
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