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“Its independence has the same quality as the independence of India, Pakistan and other countries of South-East Asia. Ceylon is an important peace factor in international affairs in our area of the world. It may be remembered that at Colombo, in Ceylon, was born the Colombo Plan, thanks to the original initiative of the Australian Government. It was in Ceylon, again, that the Colombo Conference met and took some initiative in setting in motion the processes of settlement and peace in Indo-China. It was in Colombo, also, that the five countries of South-East Asia met again, on the initiative of the Ceylon Government, for the pursuit of those purposes.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“Our own view in this matter is rather coloured by the fact that it is necessary to secure agreement in the Security Council, and afterwards in the General Assembly, and the Indian delegation, therefore, would support any move that would speed up the process of the admission of the largest number of applicants. And we shall be prepared to approach this matter on a practical basis and to support any proposition that will assist in the admission of the largest number of new Members. 42. In this connexion, we have an obligation — not only a pleasant obligation, but also a compelling one to draw attention particularly to the exclusion from this Organization of our near neighbours, and we should like to refer more especially to the case of Ceylon. 43. Ceylon became independent at the same time as we did.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“In this particular connexion, there are large numbers of countries which have made application for membership over long periods, and I should like to draw the attention of the main participants to the reaching of a decision on this matter — namely, the members of the Security Council — the fact that in the course of the eight or ten years during which this matter has been before us each of the countries concerned has voted on different occasions for each of these applicants against whom objection is now raised. If we were to make a list and to say that if any country had voted for an applicant at any one time the application in question should be considered as approved, then we would probably find that practically all these applications were covered. 41.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“If we were to include in this Organization only those States of which we approved, and if admission were to require the approval of each of the Governments represented here, most of us would not be here at all. Therefore it is a question not of approval or disapproval, but of securing as broad a basis as possible. In other words, the United Nations ought to represent the world as it is, and try to make the world what it ought to be. If we are to make the world what it ought to be, then it is necessary for us to take into account the world as it is. 40.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“Our ideas in this matter at that time could easily have been less liberal than they were because, after all, those were the war years. The United Nations was conceived before the enemy coalition had been defeated, but even at that time there was no idea that it should be a league of victors or a league of select people, or anything of that kind. 39. Thus the idea of universality has been at the basis of our Organization from the beginning. In principle, my country and my Government support the principle of universality, and the inclusion of any State that is a State — and we say “that is a State” because it is a question not of whether we like it but of the fact that it exists and is capable of performing its obligations under the Charter.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“If it is a hardy annual, it reflects the situation in the world, and here my Government desires me to stress its deep concern about the fact that, after ten years of the Organization’s existence, nearly one-third of the world is kept out of it. 38. I think that it is important for us sometimes to throw our minds back to the time when the United Nations was conceived and its foundations laid; to the United Nations Declaration signed in Washington on 1 January 1942; to the Moscow Declaration of 30 October 1943; or even earlier, to the Atlantic Charter, signed on 14 August 1941; and to the various meetings that took place in the year 1944. It was never the idea of the founders of the United Nations or the Governments which participated that we should, in any form, become an exclusive club or a Holy Alliance.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“We shall therefore support any move that does not seek to throw out the baby with the bath water, that does not seek to raise unnecessary controversy, that does not add more difficulty to the many difficulties which we have to solve. We have no objection to subscribing to any move that arises as a matter of general agreement and compromise, but my Government is definitely opposed to the establishment of any elaborate machinery or to the taking of any overt step which demands from us a full-scale review of the Charter. 37. The next problem that faces us is that of the admission of new Members. This, again, has been called a hardy annual.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“That is to say, we should take a pragmatic view of this and seek to make such alteration as is made in the case of all written constitutions, by amendments from time to time. We do not subscribe to the view that it is a healthy process periodically, at the end of every ten years, to throw the whole of the basis of our Organization into the melting pot and to convene what may be something like another San Francisco Conference in the present conditions of the world. 35. In any case, our view is that this is not the appropriate time; there are more pressing matters and, without being cynical, one could say that it is not the Charter that is wrong, it is we ourselves, and therefore we could very well devote our endeavours in the coming year to improving our loyalties in regard to the spirit and the purposes of the Charter. 36.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“So there is nothing in this Charter which need give us any concern that this matter, if it is not attended to today, will go somewhere else. This, however, is clearly the more superficial aspect of the matter. 33. The position of my Government was stated by me in San Francisco. We think that the Charter can be reviewed only if there is unanimity, and if there is unanimity the main reasons for amending the Charter will disappear. In other words, without unanimity we cannot revise the Charter, and if there is unanimity the reasons for revising it will be very small. 34. Further, my Government is of the opinion that, in any changes which we make in the Charter, we should pay more attention to Article 108 than to Article 109.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“It has arisen because in Chapter XVIII there are two articles which refer to the review of the Charter and, if I may say so, there appears to be considerable misunderstanding in this matter. All the Charter says, in paragraph 1 of Article 109, is that “a general conference of the Members of the United Nations for the purpose of reviewing the present Charter may be held at a date and place to be fixed by a two-thirds vote...” under certain conditions, one of which being the agreement of seven members of the Security Council. Then it goes on to say, in paragraph 3 of the same Article, that “if such a conference has not been held before the tenth annual session of the General Assembly, the proposal to call such a conference shall be placed on the agenda of that session…”.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“That is probably the reason why we do not vote unanimously on every issue — as we voted on the President’s election. Since most of the items are covered by the agenda, I do not propose to go into great detail about it, but there are some of these which are of importance on which my Government desires me to express its views. The first of these is the review of the Charter. 32. May I say here, with great respect, since this question seems to have loomed large in our discussions, that the idea of a review of the Charter has not come into our consciousness, and been placed on our agenda, because in this particular year any developments, either in the Organization or in the Charter, or in the inadequacy of the Charter, have called for it. If there are inadequacies, they have been there all these years.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“Some twenty-two Governments have already responded, and we hope that this year the Committee will take this further, so that that part of the Charter may be realized which focuses our attention on the “succeeding generations”, and so that the citizens of tomorrow, who are brought up in the ideals of the United Nations, may be more peace-minded, more world-minded, more tolerant and, what is more, live in accordance with the ideals of the Charter. 31. There are a number of problems facing this Assembly and, as usual, we have the regular crop of items on our agenda. But, of course, each year, while the titles or the agenda may be the same, their importance varies and, if I may say so, the importance of each item may vary even in relation to each delegation and to each part of the world.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“There is one specific matter to which I should like to refer. My delegation, along with the delegation of Uruguay, last year sponsored in the Third Committee a draft resolution to establish a Universal Children’s Day. I am happy to say that the draft resolution passed the Committee unanimously, and was subsequently adopted by the General Assembly [resolution 836 (IX)]. While the progress made upon it has not been as fast or as productive of results as we had hoped it would be, it has made progress.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“I should also like to take this opportunity of saying that perhaps the greatest feature of the United Nations, as possibly distinct from its predecessor, is the great psychological impact which it makes upon the masses of the people. There is not a country in the world, so far as we know, where the ideals of the United Nations, its existence, its organization and its work are not regarded by the masses of people — wherever there is expression of opinion — as part of their own life and their own obligations. It is not as though its contributions were something of a forced levy, on the Governments, or as if it were something exclusively concerned with government departments, blue books, files and papers; for the first time, we have the beginnings of what might be a world public opinion behind a great world organization. 30.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“More particularly, we should, at these moments when the General Assembly meets in New York, think of those men and women who are out in the periphery of this Organization; some of them in the field, some of them in the various sectors of the Organization, many of them engaged in activities that are not nearly so colourful as some others, but that are certainly ameliorating the conditions of mankind, whether it be the spraying of DDT or the promotion of the anti-tuberculosis campaign, or in the various activities of the International Labour Organisation; I do not want to mention any more for fear of leaving some out. So to the Secretary-General, and to his colleagues, my delegation wishes to pay its tribute and to say that we feel that they are engaged in tasks in the common service of our world and humanity. 29.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“Therefore I hope the Secretary-General will pardon me if I say that we have to bear this with patience and, by our endeavours, see if we cannot, without too much organizational insistence, try to bridge this gulf — that today is less than it was two years ago — between the endeavours to attain the purposes of the Charter and the place of the Organization itself within it. 28. It now falls to me to pay the tribute, of our Government and our delegation to the various agencies and organs of the United Nations for the work which they have been doing during the past year. I shall not take the time of the Assembly by covering the ground already covered by representatives who have spoken before me from this rostrum, but I should like to pay our special tribute to the Secretary-General and his organization.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“That is to say, we are still engaged in this game of trial and error in an effort to find, out how far we can move towards our goal of universality. Our dreams lead us in that direction. Our fears and our schemes lead us — as indeed did those of the Tsar Alexander I in his day — in the direction of the balance of power and of trying to organise our forces for particular and specific ends. As in the nineteenth century, we are still in the grip of this conflict between the idea of universality — the idea of a human community — and the idea of the balance of power. Therefore these problems, which are the Objective factors of the world, do to a certain extent bedevil the United Nations and introduce an element of viciousness. 27.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“It is the world that is divided, and the expression of this division happens to lie in that unfortunate and unhappy country. Similarly, in the Far East, there is a point of potential explosion, to which I shall refer later on. 25. These great problems are outside the Assembly, partly because of the conditions and the contacts created by the war, partly because peace has not been concluded, and partly because of the absence of many people who should be here among us. Naturally, these problems which concern them can only be discussed with them. The peace treaties make certain provisions and contain certain prohibitions in this matter. 26. Over and above that are what may be called the internal feuds in our Organization. The representative of Syria referred [532nd meeting] to the presence of too many blocs and too many groups.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“So that if within the limits and the purposes of the Charter, and for its promotion, there are other meetings which are conducted in a spirit of co-operation, with the necessary care to maintain contacts, or in such a way that the course of their proceedings and the development of thought, ideas and decisions does not contravene the Charter, then, if in present circumstances nothing more is possible, this is a great .advance. 24. It appears to us inevitable, given the objective situation that exists in the world, that the great problems of the world today — and I make no apology for saying this — should be the problems that centre around the division of the world, the crucial points of which are in Germany and the Far East. It is wrong to say that Germany is divided.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“The Secretary-General quite rightly is concerned, as many of us are concerned, about the inadequate amplitude of our Organization. If one must put it in plainer terms, he appears to express concern here, as he has expressed it elsewhere, that so many things which ought to be done within the United Nations have perforce to be done outside the United Nations. 23. My delegation shares part of this regret. But, at the same time, we should like to say that the ambit of the United Nations is not merely the Organization, but the, limits and the purposes of the Charter.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“I how come to the report that has been submitted to this Assembly by the Secretary-General [A/2911]. I think it is only fit and proper that my delegation should address itself in the general debate to the report made by the Secretary-General, who is not the chief officer of this Assembly but the head of one of the main organs set up by the Charter. I am happy to say that the Secretary-General, in the introduction to his report, has submitted a survey of world affairs which covers some of the more far-reaching and important issues that must engage our attention and our minds. I will not now deal with each of the items to which he has referred, because that will come in the course of the observations I am going to make. 22.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“San Francisco did one thing if it did not do anything else: that was to proclaim to the world that behind the four statesmen, the heads of the four great countries, who were to meet at Geneva shortly thereafter, was the goodwill of the nations of the world and the expectation of these nations that the statesmen, in spite of all the difficulties that faced them, would make a beginning and open a road towards co-operation. It was also the hope of San Francisco that in that other, and perhaps more proximate, centre of difficulty in the Far East, a similar road would be opened. We proclaimed these hopes at San Francisco. I am happy to think that we are still on that course. And while the pace of our travels may not be satisfactory to some, it is a matter of congratulation that there are no roadblocks on the way yet. 21.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“In them are vested the great economic, military, political and other resources of the world. Happily, in each of these countries today, there are statesmen at the head of governments and of States who realize their great responsibilities. While at times, and perhaps too often, they may express their differing points of view with a degree of acrimony which, though it is being reduced, is not desirable, there is no doubt that today we have a situation where there is an attempt at a common exploration of the path towards coexistence and world co-operation. The keynote at Geneva was to attempt to find ways and means of resolving difficulties. 20.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“I think I am showing no disrespect to anyone, nor committing any inroad on the integrity of any fact, when I say that when, at the beginning, the idea of San Francisco was mooted, it must have been in the minds of large numbers of people that it would be largely in the way of a ceremonial celebration to mark the tenth anniversary of this Organization, so that at least we might whistle to keep up our courage, and equally that San Francisco, instead of being a celebration, might turn itself into an inquest. It became neither of these. Much to our good fortune, instead of being either an inquest or merely a formal meeting, it heralded a new era. 19. The great Powers of the world, whether we approve of this position or not, are really the great factors which can make for prosperity, for peace and for war.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“This standard, compared to European or American standards, is very low. But then, standards are comparative, 16. The main features of this economic planning are that it is based upon democratic conceptions, upon the enthusiasms of the people, and very largely upon our own resources. We are people who believe that we are a wealthy country. We are wealthy because we have nearly 400 million people. They are our wealth and we are not afraid of our population. 17. I hope you will forgive me for the intrusion of what may be called domestic affairs into this international gathering. I have done so only for the reasons that I set out at the beginning, and I leave it at that. 18. We are now meeting in this Assembly in New York. We meet as a General Assembly for the second time this year. Our first meeting was in San Francisco.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“I am happy to say that in doing so it is taking into account its position and its obligations to the international community. No country in the world today can, from the point of view of its international obligations, afford to neglect its economy, because it then becomes the weak I link in the chain of economic progress in the world. We are making our contribution. Our heavy industry plays a primary part in this, and so do the industries in our villages. 15. So far, it is our good fortune that no target set in our planning has been unattained. We have set modest targets, it is true, but we have attained them. At the end of the next five-year period, we will bring into employment 12 million people. It is true that our population will rise, but our national income will have increased by 25 per cent, at a very conservative estimate.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“I mention this because it is all very well to talk about democracy and the emergence of people to independence, but when a country has large populations, as we have, who have political power, and when that political power cannot be harnessed and channelled in such a way that the people concerned can express themselves and their aspirations can be satisfied, and when the democratic processes are not real in terms of the individual, then there is a danger that a situation may arise such as has arisen in many other parts of the world. So far as we are concerned, we intend to keep the liberty we have attained and to cultivate the fraternities we have established. 14. Secondly, in this particular field, India enters this year on what is called the second five-year plan.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“What is more, the whole of this will be based on the life of the community. 13. This experiment, as it was at one time, but which is now part of our national planning and which absorbs a considerable part of our resources, has become the centre of attention in great parts of South-East Asia. We are happy to say that our administrators in this region have been in demand in other countries, and only recently we were able to send the head of our project organization to Indonesia, where a study was being made of this particular system.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“As the majority of our people live in these villages, many of which are not only far away from a railway station but even from a road- head, one of the first efforts made by our own central and state governments and our organizations and public opinion was to introduce the system of community projects. 12. I am happy to say that today in India, between the community projects and what are called the national extension blocs — the first stage of this development — we have covered 120,000 villages, which is nearly one- fifth of the number of villages in India. At the end of the second five-year plan, all India will be covered by this scheme, which means there will be an administrative system drawn from the villages, there will be an organization democratically controlled for economic, judicial and administrative purposes.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“One is the great and revolutionary development in India of what are called community projects. 11. Ours is a country of 600,000 villages. Eighty per cent of our population lives in villages. To these 600,000 villages, political democracy has come in the sense that any man or woman above the age of twenty-one is qualified to exercise the franchise. But our people have been early to realize that no democracy has any significance unless it has some meaning for the stomachs, for the leisure, for the education, for the sanitation and for the self-expression of people.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“We have not only bridged this gap of 7 million tons, but we have also found additional food for the 30 million more people who have been born in India in the past eight years. Therefore it is not merely that we are happier because our people are less hungry, or not hungry, but we are also happy to be able to communicate to the world that the organized efforts of communities, the confidence of people in their governments, and the increasing realization that hungry people in any part of any country are a source of disaster for the whole country — it is these three things, that this development proclaims, that are of international importance. 10. There are only two other items of internal development to which I shall refer, because we believe they are of international significance.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“In India we have made progress in many ways which are of interest to this Organization, Here we have a part of the world recently emerged into national independence, where the political tasks of democracy are being tried out very thoroughly, where there is an area of so-called under-development, which has always been below the margin of subsistence, where the efforts of the people by voluntary organization and under democratic systems have to meet these great tasks. 9. I am happy to say that, while in 1947, in the year of Indian independence, our country, was short by 7 million tons of food, and we had either to tighten our belts or spend the greater part of our foreign earnings in buying food abroad, last year India for the first time in its recent history passed the starvation or below- subsistence level.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“My delegation wishes to express the hope that the United Nations will, at the opportune moment and without much delay, undertake the study of floods in the world and their proper control. We can no longer regard these as calamities, but as part of the processes of nature, which the wisdom of our people, our hard thinking and our organization and scientific development must seek to control. It is impossible to do this on a national basis alone, and we hope that, among the many activities that we are Undertaking in this world for the relief of human suffering and for raising standards of living and bringing about stability in communities, the study of floods, which afflict not one continent but many, will be undertaken. 8. This is but one aspect.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“We are also happy that from many countries, too numerous to mention, sympathy and assistance have come which, though they will not come up to the enormous dimensions of the requirements, express the concern of the peoples of the world for the suffering that has been visited upon our people. The International Red Cross and the Governments of countries have come to our aid, and I am happy to say that for the first time it is not merely in the way of aid, but in the way of flood control, that international cooperation has occurred. The Government of China for the first time is co-operating with the Government of India through its administration in Tibet in assessing the rise of water in the great river Brahmaputra, and this close co-operation is expected to assist in the control of the annual floods. 7.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“The amount of property destroyed and the damage to our crops has not been calculated. Our Air Force and our Army and the whole of our administration in those areas are concentrated on the work of relief. Yet we have not been able to assess the damage to more than 25 per cent of the area. Several thousands of square miles are still under water. But our people are of good heart, and I think that it is right for me to express here the sympathy of our Government and people to our neighbours and friends in Pakistan, whose suffering is even greater than ours. 6. But all calamities have their good side, and we are happy to feel that the fortitude and endurance of our people have resulted in there being no panic and there being ordered evacuations and a proper functioning of relief organizations.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“It is also important, in our view, to make some reference to, and to give some picture, however brief and however incomplete, of the important items of progress or of difficulty in our own countries. Therefore I hope that my fellow representatives will pardon me if I refer to the conditions that obtain in my own land where, as usual each year, some great natural calamity afflicts our people. 5. During the last few months, a great part of India and of Pakistan has suffered from floods of dimensions unprecedented in recent history. In all the natural calamities which have been visited upon us since 1871, there has been nothing like this. Tens of thousands of villages have disappeared? 15 to 20 million people in India, and a larger number in Pakistan, have been rendered homeless.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“I feel sure that I express the sentiments of my Government and people in saying that the people of India and our Government have been deeply moved by the news of the illness of the President of the United States. I must refrain from saying anything which might strain the margin of propriety by appearing to appraise the life and work of the head of a State, but I think I shall not be in error in saying here that our people look to President Eisenhower as a man of goodness and compassion and a lover of peace. We would therefore like to express these sentiments on behalf of India, and to wish him a speedy and full recovery. 4. It is usual on these occasions to survey the field of international affairs from the point of view of each country.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“1. My delegation would like to join with the many that have preceded it in discharging its first and pleasant duty of paying a tribute to Mr. Maza and congratulating him on his election to this high office. My country is bound to his by ties of friendship and the desire for greater understanding. I myself had the happy privilege of being the guest of his Government last year in the Chilean capital. We are very happy that his election to this high office has met with the unanimous approval of all the sixty delegations present here. 2. My delegation would also like to take the opportunity of paying a tribute to our previous President, Mr. van Kleffens, who carried out the duties of his office with great impartiality and dignity. 3.”
1955-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 10 (1955)
“It is possible to find a solution for each individual proposition provided we approach it with integrity and in a spirit of common exploration. Therefore, let us think of the words attributed to the spirit of a shipwrecked sailor: “A shipwrecked sailor buried on these coasts bids you set sail. Full many a gallant barque, when we were lost, weathered the gale.” I think the latter should be our guide more than the former.”
1954-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 9 (1954)
“.” And, according to Article 1, paragraph 4, one of the purposes of the United Nations is to be “a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations . ..”. There is nothing new in this idea; it is only a question of our carrying out the principles. 129. I have come to the end of my observations; the remainder I must leave for the moment and take up in committee. The problems which I have put before the Assembly may perhaps give the feeling that there are no easy solutions to them, but our attitude is all important. Some people may be inclined to say, in the words of Voltaire: “This world, this theatre of pride and wrong Swarms of sick fools who talk of happiness.” They may say that happiness is not possible for this world of ours! We are not thinking of idyllic and romantic happiness for nations.”
1954-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 9 (1954)
“If there had been time I would have referred to the main problem of the view my Government holds in regard to its own foreign policy. We believe that each of these issues on which there are differences should be matters on which each country ought to make up its own mind; in that way it would be possible for different systems to live together. I do not want to use the word “coexistence” for the simple reason that it has been much jeered at. But what is coexistence? It is simply the working out of the Charter; that is all. The Charter says: “. . . to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war ... to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person ... to promote social progress ... to ensure . . . that armed force shall not be used ... to employ international machinery . .”
1954-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 9 (1954)
“In regard to Korea, my delegation will, if circumstances permit, make such suggestions as we may consider at the time to be possible. In the matter of disarmament, it is our intention to examine the possibility of introducing into the delegations of the Assembly consideration of what, may be called a stand-still arrangement pending the conclusion of a disarmament agreement. I have referred to our position in regard to the Security Council and to the problem of membership. I have also referred to the fact that my delegation proposes to suggest establishing a Children’s Day all over the world under the authority of the United Nations, in order to further the work of UNICEF and to give the rising generation an appreciation of the new epoch in our civilization. 128.”
1954-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 9 (1954)
“It would also be a contribution to the greater universality of the United Nations itself. 126. I have a great deal more to say, but there is a limit to the patience even of this gathering. I have made no reference to Austria, but we believe that to Austria apply the same observations which we have made before. We hope that it will be possible for us to see Germany and Japan represented here. 127. Before I leave the rostrum I would like to summarize the different suggestions which my delegation has made. We hope that there will be a peace treaty with Japan. We hope that those concerned will encourage and do whatever is possible to bring about direct negotiations between the Governments of East and of West Germany in order that a new approach may be made to the problem of German unity.”
1954-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 9 (1954)
“Therefore, we appeal to such countries as the Soviet Union to consider not withholding their support and their presence from the specialized agencies. The United Nations has made a gain this year in this respect in regard to the International Labour Organisation. 125. I am instructed by my Government, to refer to Japan. We hope that, very soon and with the utmost speed, a peace treaty between the Soviet Union and Japan will be concluded and that Japan will take its place in this Assembly. This is a matter of concern to us, as an Asian country, and we believe that Japan’s taking its place as a free and equal Member of the United Nations would contribute to the stability of Asia and would prevent certain problems that have already begun to rear their heads from coming up here.”
1954-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 9 (1954)
“It would, we think, be a wholesome thing if the Soviet Union and all those countries which agree with it — I am sorry to use the expression, the Soviet Union and the Eastern European States — would take their places in the specialized agencies, the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and other organizations of the United Nations, so that there might, be a reflection of the world as it is, at least in these organizations where there are no prohibitions. This proposition would be a contribution towards what we are trying to solve in the General Assembly and on which there is a considerable volume of agreement. I have no doubt at all that, with a degree of give and take, we should be able to find a solution.”
1954-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 9 (1954)
“We hope that it will be possible to make some progress in this matter, and my delegation does not desire to say anything that would make any conversations or discussions on this item more difficult. 124. Meanwhile, there are two or three other matters to which I must make brief reference. We think that in the matter of wider representation of countries, a very significant part of Europe, which for the last hundred years has been associated, in one way or another, with war, has been left out.”
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“If that is true, then the continuance of the United Nations may require it, but the point is that it is not the veto that maintains the exclusion of the Chinese Government. 122. For lack of time, I have omitted the whole of the section relating to the representation of Asia in Committees and Councils and in the other organs generally. We think that the Security Council and the powers placed upon it by Chapter V of the Charter should remain inviolate and, since representatives of Latin America have themselves made reference to this point, it is not my desire to refer to it. 123. There is an item on the agenda entitled “Admission of new Members to the United Nations”.”
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“I do not know very much about it, so I would like our experts to come forward and participate in the discussion. 120. The Secretary-General’s report refers again to the problem of the diminution of the status of the organs of the United Nations. The fact that that is even referred to indicates that this is a regrettable situation. 121. Much reference has been made to the use of the veto. My delegation would like to submit that the use of the veto is a symptom. The use of the veto is the index of a condition. I would submit that it would be profitable for delegations to peruse the observations made by the representative of Brazil [486th meeting], who referred to the emergence of the veto in San Francisco, and told us that the work of the United Nations would not have been possible if it had not been for this agreement.”
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“It arose from a speech made to us by President Eisenhower last year [470th meeting], with regard to the civilian use of atomic energy, and it was put on the agenda unanimously. 119. My Government desires to state that it yields to none in the desire for promotion of steps that will make atomic energy available for peaceful purposes. All atomic energy in India belongs to the Government. All atomic knowledge is controlled by the Government. Therefore, no private interest is attached to atomic development, so far as my Government is concerned. We desire to state — and we feel the United States delegation will understand — that we require time to see and study the proposal and to consider with our experts in this matter the pattern of the proposal put forward.”
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“With that point of view we are in the utmost sympathy and understanding, but with the idea that there may be conditional use of atomic weapons — that is, the idea that atomic weapons can be used in case of aggression, or in any other case, especially when there is no definition of the word “aggression” — we cannot agree. 117. We also submit that these weapons have ceased to have the kind of value that was formerly thought. We now have evidence and pronouncements, which I propose to read out in committee. We believe that the parties concerned already possess a quantity of weapons that can destroy the whole of this planet. I am sure they do not want to destroy other planets. 118. There is a proposal which has caught the imagination of this Assembly and the world, which was submitted by the United States delegation.”
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