WEBVTT 00:00:01.280 --> 00:00:03.760 New York. In its glass palace, 00:00:03.920 --> 00:00:07.000 the 28th United Nation's General Assembly starts 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:10.280 with an act that is celebrated as an historic event: 00:00:10.440 --> 00:00:12.160 The entry of new states. 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:15.000 28 years after the end of the Second World War, 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:17.120 Germany received two places 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:21.000 between Gambia and Ghana as new members of the global association. 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:23.560 Otto Winzer, the GDR's Foreign Minister, 00:00:23.720 --> 00:00:26.000 his FRG colleague Walter Scheel 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:27.640 and their delegations 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:30.760 were welcomed by the general assembly by acclamation. 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:37.600 The avowal to peace, solidarity and abstinence from violence 00:00:37.760 --> 00:00:41.640 were focal points in the speech Willy Brandt held before the UN. 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:44.320 Dear colleagues and friends, 00:00:44.480 --> 00:00:47.680 I speak to you as a German and as a European. 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:50.440 To be more precise, 00:00:51.800 --> 00:00:53.920 my people live in two states 00:00:54.080 --> 00:00:58.360 and yet continue to consider themselves one nation. 00:00:59.480 --> 00:01:01.760 At the same time, our part of Europe 00:01:02.440 --> 00:01:06.400 is as yet not much more than an economic community, 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:09.200 but it wishes to grow together, in this decade, 00:01:09.880 --> 00:01:13.200 as the European Union. 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:16.920 The satisfaction felt 00:01:17.720 --> 00:01:20.640 with regard to being received amicably here 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:24.600 is decreased by the division of Europe. 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:29.720 On German soil it finds particularly severe expression, 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:33.840 and after almost three decades since the war, 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:36.080 claims lives again and again. 00:01:36.760 --> 00:01:38.240 Admittedly, 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:41.760 in that part of Europe 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:47.400 from where so many tensions have risen, 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:52.320 we have started with a policy of mutual understanding. 00:01:52.880 --> 00:01:55.240 As the Federal Republic of Germany, 00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:59.480 we will work towards a state of peace in Europe, 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:01.600 where the German people, 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:04.360 in free self-determination, can once again 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:06.400 achieve unification. 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:08.320 We have come here 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:12.520 to share responsibility in the global political sphere, 00:02:13.320 --> 00:02:15.840 based on our convictions, 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:21.320 and within our capabilities. 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:24.200 And may I ask the following: 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:26.840 If the world does not manage 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:30.200 to fend off violence 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:33.320 and, finally, to ostracise it efficiently, 00:02:34.440 --> 00:02:38.560 how does it then hope to solve issues of peace? 00:02:39.480 --> 00:02:42.880 As these issues, free and far from violence, 00:02:43.040 --> 00:02:45.960 demand all our energies. 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:48.600 And please allow me 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:51.760 to say the following with necessary clarity: 00:02:51.920 --> 00:02:54.320 Hardship is conflict. 00:02:55.880 --> 00:02:57.840 Where there is hunger, 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:00.200 there cannot be long-term peace. 00:03:01.320 --> 00:03:03.520 Where there is bitter poverty, 00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:06.000 there is no justice. 00:03:06.160 --> 00:03:11.040 Where the existence of basic needs is threatened on a daily basis, 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:14.760 one cannot talk of security. 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:17.040 When faced with hardship, 00:03:17.200 --> 00:03:20.280 there must not be resignation. 00:03:20.600 --> 00:03:24.960 Copyright © 2012 TITELBILD, Berlin Subtitles: L. Corper et al.