Before going into the substance of the item on the agenda of this plenary meeting, my delegation would like to recall that it opposed the inclusion of agenda item 122 when the General Committee of our Assembly held its 1stmeeting on 23 September. It is contrary to the Charterto bring before .this fo…
The delegation of France ha uked to beallowed
to speak in order to make a clarifICation in reprd to the statement madethis afternoon by the Minister for Foreip Affairs of the Comoros.
166. My delegation has already had a opportunity, here and elsewhere, to state itsposition dearly on this question…
In such circumstances the Koberg power station cotl'ld no longer function. So, to sum up the conditions under which the Koberg power station v.:ould become operative, in five years at the earliest, my delegation can confirm that there is no risk of the station's being diverted from its function of p…
After the statement made yesterday before the Assembly by the Commissioner for External Affairs of Nigeria [16th meeting} , my delegatjon would like to allay the concern which has been expressed and would like to add some clarifications regarding the contract concluded between the FRAMATOME French g…
Madam President, I ask for the floor for a brief
clarifi,;;e~i~n concerning the intervention made last night {10th meetingl by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Comoros. As it was late, I am afraid that it was not properly realized that the French delegation had im- mediately asked for the fl…
I wonder whether the best solution would not be to leave the question open and to set the date of the Council's next meeting after 1 October, in agreement with the members of the Council and the parties.
91. Mr. Krishna MENON (India): May I be allowed to say that the observations I made did not con…
Mr. President, your interpretation of the rules of procedure has be;;:on challenged. 1should 11ke ta say that 1 and my delegation agree with your interpretation. In the present case, as Cuba is not a member of the Council, another State, which is a member of the Couneil, bas submitted Cubais draft r…
Between 15 and 26 November 1960. during the fifteenth session of the General Assembly. the FirstCommittee .held a leilgthy debate on the subject of Mauritania. Y SUbsequently, at the 91lth meeting on 3-4 December, the Security Council for the first time examined the application of the Islamic Republ…
In accordance with your recommendation, Mr. Presi- dent, l should like to state my ctelegation's views on both of the candidatures before us.
43. As regards Mauritania, l shall be very brief, since France, together with Liberia, is a co-sponsor draft resolution before the Council and the
38. Les E…
1 should just like to say a few words concerning a com- ment made a little while ago by the representative of the Soviet Union. He said that the positiontaken by the Western Powers on the adoption of the agenda will show whether those Powers are for or against a dis- criminatory poUcy with respect t…
Our colleague from the United Kingdom has given us an account of the circumstances in which the State of Leone attained independence.
23. M. ZORINE (Union des Républiques socialistes soviétiques) [traduit du russe]: La demande d'admis- sion à l'ONU d'un autre jeune Etatd'Afrique, le Sierra Leone, m…
The French delegation regrets the proposaI made by the representative of Ceylon. Not that it questions the considerations which prompted our colleague, whichit fully appreciates, and not that it has the slightest hesitation with respect to the admission of Sierra Leone-it wishes to state here andnow…
1 should like to give the Council sorne particulars on the points raised by the representative of Tunisia in the statement he made earlier this afternoon and in the statement he has just made.
198. First of aH, 1 should like to deny once more, absolutely categorically, that the French authorities o…
l merely wanted ta say that l do not intend to oppose the inclusion in the agenda of the question raised by the Tunisian Government, notwithstanding the fact that the complaint of the Government of Tunisia against France, together with the commuiùcation attached ta it, present what has occurred in a…
l should like briefly to explain why my delegation abstained in the vote on the text proposedby the dele- gations of the United Kingdom and the United states of America. This text is in line with the preoccupations of my Government. My Government has always re- quested a cease-fire and the restorati…
l have asked for the floor merely in order to transmit the following information to the Conncil:
3. In accordance with the decision taken this morning by the Council. AdmiraI Amman. who is in command of the Bizerta base. immediately received instructions to contact the Tunisian authorities at once.…
1 shaH be extremely brief because, after the state- ments which we have heard from the two parties con- cerned and from the representative of the United Kingdom, the question under discussion seems ta me to be perfectly clear.
17. Pursuant ta the request addressed ta you, Mr. President, on 1 July b…
At a time when the tension prevailing in so many countries of the world gives us daily cause for con- cern, when by turns the situation in some part of Asia, Africa, America· or Europe, with its potential complications, moves into the limelight of current world events, and particularly when this Cou…
The Council is aware oftheattitudeofreserve adopted by my delegation since the beginning of the Congo crisis and of how we have accordingly voted. French public opinion reacted with feeling and indignation at the news of the disappearance of Mr. Lumumba and his companions and, more recently, ofsix o…
1 in my turn should like to tell our new United States colleague, Mr. Adlai Stevenson, how pleased we are ta have him among us.
9. In appointfng so outstan,Ung a personality as its permanent representative in the Security Council, the United States Government h~s done our delegations, and our Organ…
