UN General Assembly
1964

220. My statement would be incomplete if I were to make no mention of positive neutrality, which is the line followed by my Government in its foreign policy. At the Second Conference of Non-Aligned Countries held at Cairo from 5 to 10 October 1964, Mr. Albin Nyamoya, Prime Minister of my country, declared: "... the idea which Burundi has of non-alignment is a positive and constructive one. It is aimed at the promotion of peace, security and prosperity in the world. It is bound up with the familiar notions of co-operation, peaceful coexistence—which implies fair play—tolerance and courtesy; it is exclusive of all exclusives and of all ideologies, recognizing that in the case of legitimate defence this principle is a difficult one to apply to the letter."