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difficulty explaining military action, open or secret, against a fellow member of the Security Council.
the election.
This VOTe an ternational community of of the Sandinista It's a recognition that its vocation is peace. It's a rejection or inc administration's campaign to succi al the Jevoration and a rejection of the violence of the Reagan ad. ministration Central America. The vote says they don't believe what the US saying about the For the first time the US has been defeated in blocking Third campaigning for the Since the victorious Sandinista revolution economic blockade on of emergency While this election does not remove this threat entirely the US would have considerable Many involvement Toni Gorton spoke to the Nicaraguan Ambassador to Britain, Francisco d'Escoto about aspirations particularly where they are revolutionary.
If you remember Cuba years ago went through 150 ballots before it was finally defeated in its attempt to get onto the OCCUILLY Council. won ENC third ballot.
The attitude General Assembly will force the US -10 start dialogue with us as we ve been asking for two years We also hope that Britain will now change its posi tion of blocking assistance to People should now be asking the British government - WI in hell's name do you stand against Nicaragua? Up until now the British government has accepted Washington's charges our election implies a complete rejection of what the us has beer It's time the world actually listened to what -Is saying and doing The General Assembly of the United Nations has recognised that the revolution stands against hunger and 003873099 Lome esses an ool war nor for *exporting revolution - as the US says We are accused of be ing a military threat to the region. Yet the biggest war weapon that we have dialogue. We want to be gIven the chance to do what is right in our own country — the right to sel determination, We didn' sufter the oss of 50.00 ai our brothers and sisters to LOSS HUES We think our election will make a definite IT OLIO L Well use our position to de nounce agression, oppres sion, hunger as well as in the Lebano we hope our presence w defuse the situation