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Mohammad ZAFRULLA KHAN

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first: 1949-09-24
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“Much stress has been sought to be laid on whether that government is peace-loving or not, and whether it is able and willing to discharge the obligations contained in the Charter. This is the language of Article 4 of the Charter itself, but those who have sought to base themselves upon it appear to forget that Article 4 relates to the admission of new Members and not to the validity of representation, with which alone we are here concerned. China is not applying for admission to the United Nations. It is a Member State, a permanent member of the Security Council, one of the Big Five. 176.”
1950-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 5 (1950)
“I had the honour of being selected, in the middle of the war, as India’s first diplomatic representative to China. In that capacity. I was the recipient of many gracious kindnesses from Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Mayor K. C. Wu, now Governor of Formosa, and many other dignitaries of the Nationalist Government. I have known Mr. T. F. Tsiang all these years and have always held him in the highest esteem on account of his sterling qualities and lofty character. The dignity with which he has continued to sustain his very difficult role during these last few months compels my admiration. But these are not considerations on the basis of which the issue with which we are faced has to be resolved. 175. Equally irrelevant are considerations bearing upon the character and composition of the Peking Government.”
1950-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 5 (1950)
“There was noticeable much oratory and great vehemence but in most cases the height of the oratory and the degree of the vehemence served merely to emphasize the absence of relevance. There was throughout a sustained appeal to sentiment, but this is exactly the type of question that needs to be dispassionately _ examined and impartially determined. The issues arising out of it must not be permitted to be obscured by sentiment. 174. First, let me attempt to clear the ground by stating that the determination of the question has no reference to personalities, and even ideologies. Were that not soothe question would present little difficulty from our point of view. Our own contacts and relations have, until lately, been all with the Kuomintang.”
1950-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 5 (1950)
“I shall now proceed to comment on two or three specific matters by way of illustration to show where, in our view, the United Nations action or approach has not been calculated to promote understanding and stimulate co-operation. 173. The first of these, namely, the question of China’s representation, has already been the subject of debate during this session. That debate caused us deep disappointment, not because we found ourselves in the minority, for that is a situation in which each of us may in turn find himself — and indeed, a minority may as often be in the wrong as it may be in the right but because in the course of the debate we could discern little inclination to face the question at issue, and even less to reason it out.”
1950-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 5 (1950)
“The Interim Committee was also set up with the same object. We are constrained to observe that that experiment has failed to justify itself. These proposals, however, are of a much more far-reaching character. It is obvious if the United Nations is to achieve the objects and purposes for which it has been set up, it must be enabled to function effectively. In far too many instances has its action been impeded, obstructed or rendered ineffective by recourse to procedural devices and tactics. Anything that is designed to enable the Organization to function more speedily and effectively deserves and will receive our earnest and sympathetic consideration. 172.”
1950-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 5 (1950)
“Colonialism has already been one of the major factors leading to the two world wars. It is now imperative that the people of these territories should become convinced that in each case the colonial Power concerned is keen, eager and anxious to speed them on towards complete independence. This conviction alone can create that sense of confidence which would guarantee the peace and security of these territories. 171. The frustration that the Security Council and the United Nations have experienced in the handling by the Council of the Korean and other problems has induced Secretary of State Acheson to sponsor a set of proposals designed to strengthen the General Assembly in dealing with problems of security. The Assembly will recall that this is not the first step that has been proposed in that direction.”
1950-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 5 (1950)
“What is called for is active effort and sustained action both on the part of the Organization and what are called colonial Powers to push forward the setting up of all these peoples and territories as independent sovereign States. No doubt the preparatory period will differ in each case, but what is needed is decision and determination on the part of the governing authority voluntarily to speed up the process of equipment and preparation and, where necessary, even of persuasion, prompting and incitement towards independence. The subordination of one people to another is an illness afflicting both the dominant and the servient peoples of which both must cure themselves as speedily as possible. It is also a temptation, almost an invitation, towards aggression, which must be eliminated as fast as conditions make it possible. 170.”
1950-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 5 (1950)
“I have no doubt, however, that the Security Council will take up the question at an early date and pursue its consideration with speed and vigour so as to determine and prescribe the method by which the parties can be brought and, if necessary, constrained to carry out what they have agreed to do, namely, to accept and bring about the conditions which will ensure the holding of a free and impartial plebiscite to enable the people of Kashmir to determine whether the State shall accede to Pakistan or to India. 169. But there are other danger spots, though most of them are not yet in eruption. The fatality is that effective action is delayed till an eruption takes place. I have in mind all Non-Self-Governing Territories.”
1950-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 5 (1950)
“But the fact that Security Council action in other cases has not been so speedy, so vigorous or so forceful makes us not less but more appreciative of the assumption by the Security Council of its proper role in the case of Korea, and strengthens the hope that this welcome recognition and acceptance of its responsibilities by the Council will prove an earnest of its resolve to discharge its responsibilities more vigorously and effectively in respect of other problems on its agenda also. 168. I have referred to other danger spots. Some of them are prominently present to our minds. Kashmir is an instance. Sir Owen Dixon, United Nations representative, has just submitted his report to the Security Council. Unfortunately, it records the failure of his mission.”
1950-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 5 (1950)
“The Assembly will recall that the Government of Pakistan was among the very first to announce its support of the Security Council action, through the mouth of the Prime Minister of Pakistan, who was then recovering from a serious operation in a hospital in Boston. 167. The attitude of the Security Council vis-a-vis the Korean conflict has been contrasted with its dilatory and ineffective handling of other situations of a more or less similar character. We too have noted that contrast.”
1950-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 5 (1950)
“The Commission had certified the withdrawal of occupation forces. A second election had been held and the government formed thereafter was busy putting its economic and political affairs in order when North Korea embarked upon its campaign of aggression against South Korea. What has since transpired is clear proof of the fact that this campaign must have been preceded by long and careful preparation and was not the outcome of a chance or casual collision or conflict. 166. In these circumstances the duty of the Security Council was clear, and for the first time in its history the Council gave an immediate and a bold reply to the challenge, so grave and impudent, to the authority, nay, to the very existence of the United Nations.”
1950-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 5 (1950)
“In the political sphere there are many danger spots, each threatening the maintenance of international peace, but the gravest of these threats proceeds at the moment from Korea. The elements of the Korean conflict appear to us to be clear and to admit of no controversy. Resolutions 112(II), 195(III) and 293(IV) of the General Assembly dealing with Korea were directed towards the establishment of a united, sovereign, independent Korea. The Assembly set up a Commission for the achievement of that purpose. It was North Korea that withstood and obstructed every effort in that direction. The Commission was thus compelled to confine its activities to South Korea. A sovereign government based on the freely expressed wishes of the people was there set up which was recognized as such by the United Nations.”
1950-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 5 (1950)
“But what I desire to stress is that the economic crisis is as clamant and urgent as the political crisis; indeed the former lies at the root of the latter. What is needed and can alone prove adequate is action on a generous — I might almost say — on an extravagant, a prodigal, scale. Nothing short of this will avail. If properly applied, assistance of this kind will prove a blessing both to him who gives and to him who receives. Every one of us can in some respect or the other be both a giver and a receiver. The greater number of our projects have, however, not yet proceeded beyond the stage of programmes and planning. These are, of course, essential, but the pace must be speeded up lest the patient expire while the diagnosis is in progress and the remedy is still undetermined. 165.”
1950-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 5 (1950)
“In this connexion we must not forget that each of us, individuals as well as nations, is a trustee in respect of every gift that has been bestowed upon us, whether that gift be of the spirit, of the intellect, of physical prowess, material resources or other talents, treasures and possessions. The only beneficent exploitation of these gifts is to spend them in and devote them to the service of mankind. 164. I am not, of course, forgetful of all that this great Organization has undertaken and is projecting to that end; nor am I unmindful of the generous efforts and offers made by this great country in various spheres and regions. I fully appreciate all this and gratefully acknowledge it. I endorse every word said in that connexion by Secretary of State Acheson in his speech here the other day.”
1950-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 5 (1950)
“I shall not here enter upon a comparison of competing economic “isms” and ideologies. For my present purpose it is needless to institute any such comparison. The result is well expressed in the homely aphorism, “the proof of the pudding is in the eating”. Call a system what you will, give it any name you please, mankind is bound ultimately to adopt that which fulfils its needs and is beneficent in its operation. Let us, therefore, make all speed towards fulfilling those needs as beneficently as we may be capable of, lest ambition flicker out, hope die and man in his desperation seek release from suffering in ruin and annihilation, 163.”
1950-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 5 (1950)
“Everything that calls that fundamental in question or is in conflict with it is based on falsehood and must be speedily set right and brought into accord with it. This applies to all spheres, spiritual, moral, social, economic, political. So long as any such conflict remains unresolved, all beneficent effort will be obstructed and end in frustration. 161. With regard to our economic conflicts, the basic reality here is that we must eliminate want, exposure and sickness. A man who is hungry, ill-clad, exposed or disease-ridden will not long cherish ambition or sustain hope and will soon become desperate. He will fall an easy prey to disorders and diseases of the mind, intellect and spirit that destroy more widely and effectively than hunger and disease of the body. 162.”
1950-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 5 (1950)
“If the answers are in the affirmative, then let us cast out all fear and step out boldly and with courage along the paths of high endeavour and beneficial achievement, ready and willing cheerfully and joyously to render in the fullest measure all that may be required from each of us to make man’s existence upon earth progressively fuller, healthier and happier than in each preceding stage. Surely that is the task that confronts us, and that in plain language is the object that we have been organized together to achieve. All the rest is but the means to this end; even the preservation and maintenance of international peace is but a means towards this end. 160. The first realization that is needed — and it will bear reiteration — is that mankind is one.”
1950-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 5 (1950)
“Passion or prejudice may, on the other hand, push us, and with us all those whose hopes are fixed on us, over the brink of disaster. 158. It behooves us, therefore — every one of us — to think, if not along lines of loftiness and serenity, at least along those of sanity; and to tread, if not paths of wisdom, at least those of circumspection. If we cannot at once soar to the sunlit heights, let us at least safeguard ourselves against being hurled into the dark abysses. 159. Mankind is on the march; it may be guided but it will not be stayed. Are we competent to furnish the guidance? A new order is struggling to be born. Can we provide the skill that is needed to ensure its safe and healthy birth? A new heaven and a new earth have been decreed. Are we ready to assume the responsibilities of becoming their architects and builders?”
1950-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 5 (1950)
“What we say and what we do here may turn out to have been pregnant with destiny. 157. Humanity has during our generation been astir with strange yearnings: mankind has felt itself uplifted through glimpses of heavenly visions; it has seen its hopes dashed in nightmares of despair. Which shall be ushered in, become a reality and prevail — the visions or the nightmares? We and those whom we represent are the instruments through which the consummation will be achieved or the ruin compassed. We carry heavy responsibilities; we have been called upon to pronounce on momentous issues. It is true that the decisions here rest mainly with the big Powers, but not altogether. On occasion a solitary voice charged with truth and sincerity may serve to avert a calamity.”
1950-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 5 (1950)
“May I be permitted to congratulate the General Assembly on its choice of a President for the fifth session. It is a matter of gratification to my delegation that the deliberations of this crucial session will be controlled and guided by so distinguished a representative of a country with which we have long-standing and intimate ties of culture, faith and friendship. You are aware, Mr. President, in what high esteem and affection I have always held you, and I repeat the prayer that I uttered to you when the choice of the Assembly became known: that God, of His grace, continue to bless you with the strength needed for the discharge of your high responsibilities and rightly guide your judgment at every step. 156. We are met at a time of crisis. Grave events wait upon our words, upon our deeds.”
1950-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 5 (1950)
“One effort that would help to clear the atmosphere would be to foster knowledge in all spheres, to provide accurate information and to facilitate and promote free intercourse and interchanges across national and international frontiers. The activities of the United Nations directed towards the lowering and removal of barriers restricting the free movement of ideas, information and individuals should be intensified, since those barriers hindered better understanding and deeper friendship between the nations. 126. Pakistan could be relied upon to give its fullest co-operation towards the achievement of the ideals and purposes of the United Nations as set forth in the Charter.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“What must be insisted upon was that no force, violence or coercion, organized or unorganized, should be permitted to be employed, either inside a nation or from outside, to force a people to give up that which they desired to retain or to adopt that which they were reluctant to accept. Whatever was attempted must be undertaken openly and carried out by peaceful means. If that could be accepted and put into effect on a worldwide scale, the suspicions of sinister motives and the fears of secret and violent designs, which were poisoning international relations and constituted so grave a threat to the maintenance of peace and security, would soon be dispelled, making beneficent co-operation possible between groups of States which were divided from each other by those suspicions and fears. 125.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“The complexity of the human problems involved required that they should be approached from various angles; indeed, diverse points of view and differences of approach and method were essential conditions of advancement and progress and should, therefore, be encouraged. What was needed, however, was tolerance, which should provide full scope for ideas to act and react beneficently upon each other. 124. Pakistan’s view was that every nation must be free to develop its social, economic and political systems and institutions along the lines best suited to its own needs and expressive of its genius.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“One result of that had been that important questions, which could well have been referred to the Committee and should normally have been so referred, had been allotted to special committees, so that they could be dealt with by all the. Member States, or by such of them as had been nominated to those committees. Pakistan still hoped that it might be possible to persuade the group of States which had declined to participate in the work of the Interim Committed to change their attitude, but if that should unfortunately not be found possible, it would appear that the experiment should no longer be continued. 123. The ideological conflict continued not only to divide the World but also to harass its peoples and to threaten peace and security.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“It would be an object lesson to the world and, indeed, might be a crucial test of the very justification of the continuation of the United Nations, for the Organization successfully and effectively to meet that challenge. 122. There were many other important matters on the agenda of the session on which he would not comment. An observation, however, was called for in connexion with the Interim Committee. That Committee had been set up with a legitimate purpose as an experimental measure. Unfortunately the experiment had not justified itself, mainly owing to the fact that a group of Member States had refused to participate in the activities of the Committee.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“121. One of the specific questions that would come under discussion was the effective internationalization of Jerusalem. To that Pakistan would give wholehearted support. It might be said that that aspect of the larger problem of Palestine would be a test of the consistency and effectiveness of the United Nations. In seeking to carry into effect the internationalization of Jerusalem, the United Nations was seeking merely to give effect to an important provision of the resolution which had culminated in the setting up of the State of Israel. The internationalization of Jerusalem had been one of the prior conditions of the creation of that State. Israel had thrown a challenge to the United Nations in respect of that condition.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“That applied not only to Indonesia, but also to Malaya, to Viet-Nam and, indeed, to all the other countries, nations and peoples that were still struggling to attain to the fullness of independence, both in the political and in the economic spheres. 120. With regard to Palestine, Pakistan’s stand had throughout been clear and unequivocal. Pakistan did not depart in any way from the views which had been expressed on its behalf on that question. In the meantime certain calamities, of which Pakistan had given due and timely warning, had unfortunately overtaken an unfortunate section of the people of that unhappy land. Without prejudice to its main stand on the question, Pakistan would be prepared to take note of the exigencies of the situation and to make a contribution towards securing their redress on a fair, just and humanitarian basis.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“Pakistan’s contribution to the discussion would be based upon the principles of the Charter, the outstanding one1 in that case being respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples. 119. The feelings of the people of Pakistan and the attitude of its Government in respect of that matter were charged with a deep poignancy. They would not be able either to enjoy or to appreciate to the fullest extent their own recently achieved freedom and sovereignty until all the other nations of South West Asia which had not yet attained to full freedom found themselves in similar case.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“support to any proposal which maintained and gave effect to the principles of the Charter and would oppose any proposed solution that ran contrary to them. 118. As representatives were aware, a conference of representatives of Indonesia and the Netherlands, engaged in formulating a settlement of the Indonesian question, was sitting at The Hague. It was to be hoped that such a settlement, honourable and satisfactory to all concerned, would emerge from the discussions and deliberations of the conference in time for the fourth session of the General Assembly to take note of it and to give it its blessing. If by misfortune, that should not prove to be the case, the matter would come up for discussion, since it was on the Assembly’s agenda.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“The problem of Greece was happily on the way towards a solution. 117. On the question of the former Italian colonies, Pakistan had made its point of view perfectly clear during the previous session, and to that point of view it continued to adhere. Pakistan maintained that a solution of that question must be found, as stated in annex XI to the peace treaty with Italy, in the light of the wishes and welfare of the inhabitants of those territories and the interests of peace and security, taking into consideration the views of other interested Governments. Of all those considerations, the wishes and welfare of the inhabitants were paramount. Human beings, whether as individuals or in groups, could not be herded about as so many head of cattle. The Pakistan delegation would be prepared to lend its.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“Pakistan’s attitude in respect of both those vital and urgent matters was the clearest possible proof of its determination to seek a solution of all international disputes and problems through peaceful means, first by negotiation and, if that should fail, through recourse to the appropriate organs of the United Nations. If the purposes of the United Nations were to be achieved through peaceful methods, not only India, but all States, whether Members of the United Nations or not, would have to give similar proof of their anxiety that their disputes and problems should be resolved through such means. 116. The most outstanding problems in the political field with which the Assembly would have to deal during the course of the session were those relating to the former Italian colonies, Indonesia and Palestine.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“Pakistan was continuing its efforts to seek a solution by mutual agreement in the earnest hope that such a solution, acceptable to both sides, might be reached at an early date, but the matter was urgent and could not be delayed longer. If a settlement by negotiation should prove to be beyond the reach of the parties, Pakistan would be willing to submit the dispute to the adjudication of the International Court of Justice, as required by the Charter. Indeed, it had already submitted that proposal to India as an alternative in the event of a failure to reach settlement by agreement. 115.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“India had claimed that, as an upper riparian State, it was entitled to divert every drop of the water of those common international rivers to its own uses and to dry up altogether those areas which had hitherto depended upon them for irrigation. It should be noted that Pakistan had already invested millions of dollars in the development of the irrigation systems of those areas. 114. The continued interference, or threat of interference, with the flow of those waters was so disquieting and pregnant with danger to the maintenance of peaceful conditions as to make it imperative that a speedy solution should be sought by negotiation or adjudication.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“A year of negotiation had failed to accomplish the restoration of the flow into Pakistan of one of those systems. In connexion with the restoration of the flow of the others, the Government of India had asserted the right to impose certain onerous conditions. Pakistan had reserved its rights, and the two Governments had agreed that further meetings between their representatives should take place, in the hope that a friendly solution would be reached. 113. Those meetings had taken place, but a solution had not been reached. In fact, the meetings had failed to bring the views of the parties closer together. Instead, the Government of India had put forward contentions that struck at the very root of Pakistan’s right to its historic, legal and equitable share in the common waters.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“It would be readily recognized that, owing to the dependence of millions of people upon the rivers and irrigation systems across which the political boundary had been drawn, the distribution of those common waters was a matter of vital concern. An interruption, such as had occurred over a year previously, in the flow of waters upon which essential food-growing areas of Pakistan depended, or a diminution in that flow, or even a threat of interruption or diminution. which would have the effect of converting millions of acres of fertile land into arid wastes, created a situation likely to endanger the maintenance of international peace and security and was inconsistent with the obligations of membership in the United Nations. 112.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“A large part of those waters was utilized for purposes of irrigation in West Pakistan and the States that had acceded to Pakistan, and upon the continuation of the supply of those waters depended not only the welfare and prosperity but even the livelihood and existence of large sections of the people of West Pakistan. The dispute had arisen over the action of India in cutting off, in 1948, and in the case of one channel in August 1947, the flow into Pakistan of the latter’s share of the waters of certain canal systems which, by the partition, had become international. Previously, as a Joint Expert Committee on Partition had reported, there had been no question of varying the authorized shares of water to which the two zones and the various canals had been entitled before partition. 111.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“If India were, as its representative claimed, a loyal Member of the United Nations, anxious for a peaceful and stable solution of the problem, it must, as early as possible, agree to some process which would speedily resolve the deadlock and enable the Plebiscite Administrator to organize and hold a fair and impartial plebiscite. 109. Sir Mohammad Zafrulla Khan proceeded to draw the attention of the Assembly to another dispute which had been pending between Pakistan and India for nearly eighteen months and which, if not peacefully settled, threatened to place the maintenance of international peace and security in grave danger. 110. The dispute in question related to the apportionment of the waters of the rivers which had been cut across by the drawing of the boundary line between India and West Pakistan.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“In the course of his distinguished career, the Indian representative had occupied a high judicial position, and had he been called upon to determine the question at issue judicially, it would surely hot have taken him more than a few minutes to come to the conclusion that India had advanced the excuse merely to obstruct a process which must go forward speedily and must culminate in the organization and holding of a fair and impartial plebiscite at a very early date, if peace were to be preserved and maintained. Pakistan had found no difficulty in accepting the proposal of the Commission that the questions in dispute, relating to the settlement of the truce, should be submitted to the arbitration of the officer whom it was proposed to appoint as arbitrator and who had already been nominated Plebiscite Administrator.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“Commission accepted by both parties anti the clarification of those resolutions furnished by the Commission to the parties, the issue must be determined at that stage or await determination at the next stage. If the arbitrator accepted the first view, he would proceed to determine it forthwith; if he were of the second opinion, he would so rule and the issue would be excluded from determination at the current stage. 108. In making that aspect of the matter an excuse for rejecting the proposal of the Commission, the Indian representative and the Indian Government appeared to be sheltering behind a position which they knew to be untenable.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“The Indian representative had contended that, though arbitration was one of the methods of peaceful settlement enjoined by the Charter, India was unable to accept the Commission’s proposal for arbitration in that case, since the issues to be decided had not been clearly defined. The fallacy underlying that statement was that one of the questions to be determined by the arbitrator was whether the issue that the Indian representative had in mint! was to be determined at that stage or whether it came within the category of those to be determined at the next stage. That being the case, it was obviously for the arbitrator to determine whether, on the basis of the terms of the resolutions of the.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“The Commission had proposed that the parties should agree to accept the decision of Admiral Nimitz on the disputed matters relating to the truce. 107. One of the matters in dispute between the parties was whether a certain question was to be determined at the truce stage or whether, under the resolutions of the Commission accepted by the parties and under the clarifications given by the Commission, it could be dealt with only during the period of the organization of the plebiscite which was to follow the truce. India’s contention was that the matter must be determined as part of the truce agreement. Pakistan contended that it could be determined only during the plebiscite stage, when it would have to be synchronized with other related questions.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“It was to be hoped, however, that India would not withdraw from the position which it had consistently held for two years. 106. A cease-fire agreement had been brought about through the efforts of the United Nations Commission. The next task of the Commission had been to bring about a truce agreement, and there the Commission had been confronted with demands and contentions which it had found itself unable to resolve by its own efforts. The Commission had therefore proposed that all matters of dispute between the parties, relating to the settlement of the truce agreement, should be submitted to the arbitration of Admiral Nimitz, who had already been nominated by the parties as the Plebiscite Administrator.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“The dispute, however, had dragged on through various phases for nearly two years, and Sir Mohammad Zafrulla Khan thought it would be appropriate, for the benefit and information of those States Members which were not represented on the Security Council, to explain briefly at what stage the efforts of the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan Which was seeking to bring about a settlement had been brought to a standstill. 105. Members were aware that Pakistan and India were agreed that the question of the accession of the State of Jammu and Kashmir to Pakistan or India should be determined on the basis of a free and impartial plebiscite of the people of the State. A campaign had recently been started in the Indian Press to persuade the Government of India to withdraw from that position.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“The group of questions included in item 8 of those notified by the Secretary-General, namely, the India-Pakistan question, was of the most direct and vital interest to Pakistan, the dispute relating to the accession of Kashmir being the most outstanding among them. A brief reference to that question had been made by the representative of India, in the course of his address to the Assembly at the 222nd meeting, but he had confined himself to generalities.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“The question was still on the agenda of the Security Council; it was listed as item 11 of matters relating to the maintenance of international peace and security which were being dealt with by the Security Council and which had been notified by the Secretary-General to the Assembly (A/9/9) under paragraph 2 of Article 12. It was regrettable that the Security Council had so far not found itself able to take any steps towards the suppression of what undoubtedly had been and still was an act of aggression. 104. Other questions involving threats to the peace were before the Security Council.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“The Pakistan delegation regretted that it cannot express the same degree of satisfaction with the work of the United Nations in respect of the maintenance of international peace and security through effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace and for the suppression of acts of aggression or breaches of the peace, as provided for in Article 1 of the Charter. 103. Addressing the Assembly during the general discussions at the first part of the third session, he himself had drawn attention to an instance of aggression committed by a powerful State against a weak and peaceful neighbour while the appeal of the latter against the threatened aggression had been pending and had been under discussion by the Security Council; he was referring to the case of Hyderabad.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“Indeed, that fact was expressly recognized in the Charter itself, which, in its Preamble, declared that the peoples of the United Nations were determined to practise tolerance and to live together in peace with one another as good neighbours, so as to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, and also that, to the same end, they were determined to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples, The project of economic aid to under-developed countries was only one practical expression of that determination. 102.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“The project betokened further recognition of the reality that not only peace and security but also the welfare and prosperity of mankind, in all their aspects, were interdependent and indivisible; that, in fact, mankind was fast becoming one family and must learn to live together in peace and beneficent co-operation, or parish.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“Both General Romulo and the Assembly were to be congratulated on the happy choice! 100. The year that had elapsed had marked a great advance in the achievements of the United Nations in the economic, social and humanitarian fields. 101. The project of economic aid to under-developed countries was of particular interest to Pakistan, which was glad to accord it its general approval and support. Pakistan looked forward, during the course of the current session, to making its due contribution to the shaping and formulation of the project, and later to its implementation.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)
“Sir Mohammad ZAFRULLA Khan stated that the Assembly was fortunate in having elected as its President an international personality who, through his courage, vision and lofty eloquence, had on all occasions emphasized and lent much needed support to the principles and the purposes of the Charter of the United Nations. The courtesy, skill and speed with which he had conducted the proceedings and guided the deliberations of the Ad Hoc Political Committee during the third session were guarantees that the work of the Assembly during the current session would proceed to its conclusion smoothly and speedily. General Romulo’s election to the high office of President of the Assembly was a matter of deep gratification to the Pakistan delegation, and to Sir Mohammad Zafrulla Khan personally.”
1949-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 4 (1949)