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C. Malik

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  1. “Finally, he desired to bring into greater prominence and sharper relief two of the most important enterprises in that field. At the San Francisco Conference representatives of many Governments had been quick to grasp the double importance of the Dumbarton Oaks proposals for an Economic and Social Council; namely, economic and social justice both as a necessary prerequisite for enduring peace and as an end in itself. It was true that the architects of the Dumbarton Oaks working paper had been, in 1944, primarily preoccupied with questions of security, adjudication and trusteeship, and had given only a secondary place to the proposed innovation in international co-operation.”

    1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)

  2. “Malik wished to make a general review of the origins, structure and achievements, such as they were, of the Economic and Social Council, the organ of the United Nations charged with the promotion of international collaboration towards the great positive human goals suggested in Article 55 of the Charter, « higher standards of living, full employment, and conditions of economic and social progress and development ...fundamental freedoms for all». He wished further to make a few critical observations concerning the essential and accidental limitations of the world Organization in social, economic and cultural international co-operation, and in the light of that criticism, to turn to certain proposals which either could be given effect within the framework of the Charter or required fundamental Charter revision.”

    1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)

  3. “They tended, therefore, for the most part, to send to the General Assembly politicians to whom political issues were clear and decisive, rather than economists, sociologists and thinkers, who saw everything ultimately as a function of the spirit and mind of man, and of basic social and material conditions. Many Governments and their representatives still thought only in terms of position, security and balance of power; they still lived in the age of the League of Nations. Doubtless, all those factors had contributed to the exaggeration of the political at the expense of the economic, social and spiritual in the deliberations of the United Nations. That exaggeration, however, must be corrected. In order that the Assembly might better see the full scope of its economic and social tasks, Mr.”

    1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)

  4. “In such a political and psychological atmosphere, how could genuine international co-operation in the economic and social field really occur? Thirdly, the political issues on which United Nations leadership had concentrated were admittedly of decisive importance. The veto, warmongering, Palestine, atomic energy; those and like matters certainly deserved the attention which they had aroused. Finally, it had to be confessed that the Member Governments in many cases still thought in terms of the concepts of the League of Nations rather than of the United Nations. They had not yet sufficiently understood that international economic, social and cultural co-operation was of the very essence of the new world Organization.”

    1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)

  5. “Four reasons had doubtless conspired to bring that situation about. First, the public fed on the sensational and the negative. There was less interest in or patience with the quiet, the unobtrusive, the positive. As the public was intrigued to the utmost by political controversy, rather than by social and economic construction, the open disagreements in the Security Council and in the First Committee suited its predilection perfectly. Secondly, a pre-condition of the real flowering of the social and economic activity of the United Nations had from the very beginning been the existence of genuine peace and confidence among nations. But everyone knew that peace was not yet established; that there was a fundamental, pervasive political uncertainty.”

    1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)

  6. “It was especially gratifying and encouraging to hear the representative of the United States of America., Mr. Marshall (139th meeting,), the representative of the United Kingdom, Mr. Bevin (144th meeting), and the representative of New Zealand, Mr. Thorn (144th meeting) and others stress the importance of the work of the Council. But, in the past, speakers had been almost wholly absorbed in political issues. If it was not the veto, it was the «Little Assembly». If it was not the «Little Assembly», it was warmongering. If it was not warmongering, it was Korea. If it was not Korea, it was certainly Greece or Palestine. The result had been that the United Nations had come to be identified in the public eye with the sort of problem and atmosphere prevailing in the Security Council and in the First Committee of the Assembly.”

    1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)

  7. “Malik said he would concentrate his attention exclusively on the economic, social and cultural activity of the United Nations, partly on account of his association with the Economic and Social Council, partly on account of his country’s dominant interest in that field, but partly also on account of his conviction that the economic, social, cultural and spiritual concerns of man were supreme. It was at once interesting and disturbing that, in the initial general debates of the two preceding sessions of the General Assembly, most of the speakers had paid relatively little attention to economic and social matters. That had not been true to the same extent of the present session, for so far there had been persistent reference to the positive achievements and promise of the Economic and Social Council.”

    1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)

  8. “In some of those other items the Lebanese delegation was deeply and critically interested. That was especially the case with regard to the problem of Palestine, to which there could be no abiding solution without justice, equity and agreement. An imposed solution would never work, it would sooner or later prove illusory in the extreme. But the Prime Minister of Lebanon, the head of the delegation, would adequately express the attitude of his Government on that question in the appropriate Committee. For the present, Mr.”

    1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)

  9. “Thus, while no judgment of their importance was necessarily implied, it would be seen that 57 per cent of the substantive items of the agenda dealt with economic, social and cultural matters; that practically half of the Main Committees would devote their time to the examination of these questions, and that one of the principal organs of the United Nations, namely, the Economic and Social Council, worked all the year round on the concerns of that general field. Mr. Malik stated that he would therefore review in his present speech the achievements and challenges of the United Nations in the economic and social realm. The delegation of Lebanon would have ample opportunity to express its views on the other important items on the agenda in the appropriate Committees to which they would be referred.”

    1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)

  10. “Two Main Committees of the Assembly, namely the Second Committee dealing with economic matters and the Third Committee with social, humanitarian and cultural matters, as well as the Joint Committee of the two, were set apart exclusively for reviewing and recommending decisions on the topics in that important domain. Furthermore, some of the aspects of the economic and social responsibilities of the United Nations were also referred to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Committees of the Assembly for consideration.”

    1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)

  11. “Mr. C. MALIK pointed out that, of the thirty-eight substantive items on the provisional agenda (A/585) and supplementary fist (A/629) of the third session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, twenty-one and a half were concerned with international economic, social, health and related problems, or with international cultural and educational co-operation. According to Article 60 of the Charter, responsibility for advancing the work in that wide field was vested in the General Assembly and, under its authority, in the Economic and Social Council.”

    1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)