At its 663rd plenary meeting, during the eleventh session, the General Assembly adopted reso- lution 1017 B (XI) reaffirming its determination that Viet-Nam was fully qualified for membership in the United Nations. This resolution also requested the Security Council to reconsider Viet-Nam's applicat…
I have asked for the floor merely to exercise my right of reply.
73. 'The representative of Iraq has just stated that my general remarks apply to the case of Algeria. I agree with him completely and am glad to note that we concur on this point.
74. There seems, however, to be some confusion in the…
I have listened with the closest attention to the account just given by the United States represen- tative of the negotiations which his Government has undertaken in Cairo. We have been follow:ing the nego- tiations with great interest, and I should like to make the following preliminary comments on…
Sir, I thank you for your kind words of wel- come. I am very pleased, as permanent representative of France, to be able to resume today with the United Nations the contacts I hro.d the honour and pleasure of having and the co-operation which I was able to give during three and a half years as Assist…
The French dele,?:ation has listened with the greatest attention to the statements during the past few weeks of the divergent views of Pakistan and India.
29. The Kashmir question is a subject of grave con- cern to all Governments who are anxious to safeguard the maintenance of peace and to bring a…
:\Iy delegation, too, abstained in the vote just taken. 1 must say, as other members of the Couneil have said before me, that the time does not appear to us to he propitious for voting in favour of admitting l\Iongolia 10 our Organization.
108. Last year we voted in favour of its admission; our act…
The French delegation will regard it as its dutY to vote in favour of the draft resolution proposed by our esteemed President. It will perform this dutY with added conviction and eargerness in that Japan is in every respect qualified to join our ranks.
45. 1 am afraid that history will be very seve…
1 voted in the same way as most of the
member~l of the Council for the same reason as Sir Pierson Dixon. 1 think it is better to decide on the time and date of the meeting now than to leave the time open. Nevertheless, 1 should like to reserve my right to ask the President to caU a meeting of the C…
In the Security Cauncil yesterday after- noon [752nd meeting], the French delegation explained the reasons wmch had 100 it, in conjunction with the delegations of the United Kingdom and the United States, to calI for an urgent meeting of the Securi~' Council. 1 shall briefly recount those reasons: F…
There must he sorne misunderstanding. As .the .President pointed out at the beginning of this meet- ing, the question now under discussion is whether or not we will adopt the provisional agenda; it is not whether we should or should not discuss the substance of the problem. The Iranian representativ…
La déI~g'3.tionfrançaise French) : The French delegation requests the Security demande au Conseil de sécurité de ne pas inscrire à Council not to incl1-1de in its agenda the thirteen-delega- SOli ordre du jour la plainte des 13 délégations contenue tion çomplaint contained in the letter of 13 June 1…
The French deiegation asks that the proposaI for adjoumment sine die of the problem before us he put to the vote, and we shaH oppose such adjoum-
Président: M. E. R. WALKER (Australie).
Présents: Les représentants des pays suivants: Aus- traite, Belgique, Chine, Cuba, France, Iran, Pérou, Union de…
The French deIegation will vote for the United Kingdom drafl resolulion as just amended. We trust that the passion, or, as Mr. Abdoh called it, the polemics, of this debate have not jeopardized the results of lhe Secretary-General's mission and the prospects it opened up.
15. Every paragraph of the…
1 shaH be very brief in these explanatory remarks. We have heard many doubts and many fears expressed around our Council table. We must certainly take these doubts and these fears into account, because they are entertained by some of the States most deeply concerned with the solution of the problem …
Nearly two months ago, during our meetings at the beginning of April, 1 mentioned the fears that appeared to he justified by an appreciable worsening of the situation in the Middle East. At that time it seemed to aU of us that, in an atmosphere that was becoming wone day by day and in the midst of r…
On the first day of this discussion, the French dele- gation made a statement setting forth the basic reasons impcIIing it to vote for the draft resolution before us [S/3562 and Carro 1]. We have listened with the greatest interest and attention to the speeches made since, both by the members of the…
ln a statement which, it seemed to me, as it did to the President, went beyond. the scope of this discussion, the Soviet Union representative chose to refer to the actions of my Govemment. 1 should not like my silence to he interpreted as acceptance oi what he said. AlI States Members of the United …
Now that we have heard the partif's, and the members of the Council have given their views, 1 feel that the time has come to make a clear and definite statement of the attitude of the three Powers which, some time ago, submitted the draft resolution before the Council.
75. 1 have listened with grea…
If 1 undentood the French interpretation of the USSR representative's statément correctly, Mr. Sobolev said that the Assembly had unanimous1y urged us to admit eighteen countries. That is not quite accurate; the recommendation concerning the admission of the eighteen candidates was not unanimous. A …
The French delegation stated yesterday that it favoured the immediate admission of Japan to the United Nations. 1 myself said so here. 1 expressed my delegation's regret that, for reasons known to everyone here, the Assembly was unable, yesterday, to reconsider the question of Japan's admission.
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