S/PV.1102 Security Council

As reprerentatlve of CHINA, I have the right of reply to the oonoluding remarb made by the representative of the Soviet Union. But being mindful of the urgent buainorr that 111% ahead of the Counoil, I have no intention of being provoked into any wordy disouarion of the so-oalled question of rep6erentaiion. That quertion, aa members of the Counoil must have noted, WBI disposed of only a few months a t$ by the Qonaral Aerombiy,2/ whioh-upheld the righ ul rtatur of my delegation in ihe United Nationr. My oapeoity aa representative of China in thin Counoil under the provieionr of the Charter tr not open to question, and 81 preriding officer for thir month I would like to Bay to the representative of Be loviot Union that. even 8.1 I extend to him every oonridotation that 10 -duo to a repreeentativo on thii Qounoil, I rhall expeot of him a rearonablo moaaura of 00-y ration with the Chrir in the oonduot ai the uaun011 I burineur de 1VJnion soviltique a faiter on tnrminant ron intervention. Mais, oonroient de l~urgencm der afflriresdont doit o%oouper lo Conseil, Jo nLc veux paa me lairrer ontrafnor dans une longue dirousslon aur la quo&ion dite db la ‘%pr6rentationa. Cette quortion, OOmme lee membror du Conaoil le mavent, a 6% rAf@ voioi quelquor moir Mulemeat par 1’ AsromblC gdn6ralo.V, qui a rdaffirm6 lea droitr l$gitlmer de ma d6l@atioa A l’organiration do6 Nation0 Unier. Ma qualit & r#prbrontant do la Chino au Conroil, on oonformitb de8 dirpoaitionr de la Chart& ne prdta nullomont A dirouarion rt, on ma qualit de PrbriLnt pour 00 molr-oi, je tiennr A dire au rapr(rontant de l’tlnion rovi&iaur an lui rooordant touti la oonrld6rrtion &nor, oomme 11 convient.

I huve consulted with the other co-sponsors of the draft resolution, and we fully understand Wle spirit in which the sepnrnte vote on parngraph 4 was requested by the delegntion of the Soviet Union. ln spite of the fact tint the draft reeolutlon IA the result, ae I stnted on Monday [ 1100th meeting], of n number of consultfltlons and lengthy negotiations which took plnce during the last few 17. M. BERNARDES (Brf%ll) [tradult de l’anglals]: J’nl consult6 les autres auteurs du pt’ojet de r&solution et noun comprenons parfaitement ITesprit dane loquol la d616gatlon de 1’Unlon sovl&lque a demand6 un vote &par6 sur le paragruphe 4 du cIlsposltif, Blen que ce projet de r&olutlon, comme je l’ni dlt lundl [llOOBme &ance], r6sulte de consultatlone etdo longues n6goclatione qul ont eu lieu tee dernibres semnines entre lee a~lteurs, les uutres membros du Conseil et lee parties intbres&es, et bion que chacun weeks nmong its oo-sponsors, the other members of the Council nnd the interested pnrtles, nnd that each

Slnoe the draft reeolutlon under oonslderation by thle Counoll, pertioulerly in its operative paragraphs 4, 6, 7 and 8 would call upon ‘the Seoretary-General to undertake oertaln rosponelbllltl6e, I thought that it would be quite appropriate and no doubt helpful to the Counoll lf I rhould briefly lndloate my own thinking about the nature end exeroiee of these reeponelb~lltlsa, 21. As I observed in my previous statement (1097th meeting], the oreatlon of a United Nations peaoekeeping foroe for Cyprus could only oome about by poaltlve eo#on of this Counoll. Thle aotlon. es the draft resolution epealflee, obviously muat be predloetecl upon the oonsent of the Qovernment of Cyprus, on whose territory Lhe foroe would be deployed. The draft rerolutlon, in ita operative paragraph 4, aaka the Secretary-Generel to ertabllsh the oonmorltlon and elee of Uie foroe in oonsultatlon with the dovernments of Cyprus, Greeoe, Turkey and the United Kingdom c -thlaregard, it would be my intention, ln aooorctanoe with well-ertnbllshetl @raotloe oonoernlng prevloua Unllecl Netlona peaoe-koeplngforoee, to keep the Seourlty Council, whloh would authorise lk eetabllahment, promptly end fully informed about the organlratlon and operation of the foroe, lnoludlng itr oompodtion, sire and oommand. 0n the baa16 of prellmlnery ooundinge that I have taken, without, of ofname. having made any oommltmente, I may inform the Co&oil tliat althou& the problem of oon&ltlon in delloate and dlffloult beoaure of the lndloated llmltrtlonr on the range of oholoe, I very muoh hope th@t a foroe ruoh aa lr envisaged b and of adequate slaa, oan be ao 3; thlr draft resolution, eved. Ii;, 22. I might pclnt cut nlsc that in recruiting troops for this force, I would cmphnslze on Lhu bnsls of cperntlve pnragrnph 6 that the force, unlike the pencekeeplng forces in Gnzn and the Cocgc, wculcl hnve n fixed nntl firm durutlon of three months. The force thus could be extended beyond three months only by n new nctlcn by this Council. I wculcl nlso drnw RLtentIon to the provIsIon In pnrngrnph 6 for meeting the cost of the iurcc which is not to be chnrgotl ngnlnat United Nutloos revcnuos. In this context I woultl I:artlcultLrly llkc to call iltlontlon to the Inet sentence of opurntlvc paragraph 6 which .&tee thnt: “The Secrelnry-Gencrnl mny nlso nccept voluntrrry con- 19. Le PRESIDENT (tredult de l’anglale): Le Seor& talre gC6ral a une d6olaratlon B fatre avant que nova passions au vote. ao. Le SECRSTAIRE GENERAL (tredult de l%nglalr): Pulrque le projel de rbsolutlon eoumle au Conroll tend II oharger le SeorOtalre g&&al de oertalner responeeblllt4e, notamment en vertu de8 paragraphea 4, 6, 7 et 6 du dleposltlf, jle.1 pened qu’ll oonvenelt et qu’ll pourralt &re utile pour le Conreil que j’lndlqse brihment oomment J’envleage la nature de oea reaponsablllt6s et la manlbre dont je pourrelr m’en eoqultter. 21. Comme Je l’el fait observer dnnr me d6olaretlon pr(o8dente (1091BmP 86anoe], la ordatlon d’une force de8 Netlonr Unles oharg8e du malntien de la palx R Chypre ne pourralt rbsulter quo d’une d6olslon posltlve du Conrell. Cette d8olelon, a?nel que le prbvolt le projet de r&rrolutlon, suppose nboeeeairement le ooneentement du aouvernement de Chypre, pay6 oh la force serelt etatlonnbe. Le paragraphe 4 du dlrpw sltlf du projst de rbsolution demande eu Seor8telre g&&al de fixer la composition et lleffeotlf de aette tome en oonnultatlon eveo lea Qouvernemente de Chypre, de la QrBoe, du Royaume-Unl et de la Turqule. A get Bgard, !e me proporereir, oonform6ment B la pratlque qul s’est dteblle k l~oooeslon de la formetlon par lea Nations Unler dea Roroes de maintlen de la palx pr6o6dentee. de tanlr le Consell de e&urlt4, qul attorlsvralt la or6atlon de la form, blen inform6 A tow moments au eujet de Porganloatlon et der aotlvlt4a de la foroe, notnmment eli oe qul oonoerne aa oomposltion, don effeotlf et uon oommandement. D’aprBr lea rondeges pr6llmlnalres au+ quelr j%i proo(ld&, sane, birn entendu, avolr prlr auoun engagement, fe puir informer 16 Con~ell que, bien o lr problbme de la oomporltion solt dUoat et fr d ioile I r4roudre du fait cl81 indtoationr limltant lo &4x, jto8p&a hmrrmont quW eara porribla dr iWeir une foror Qdmme oolie rnvirydr par 11 projet de rbrolution, et d’un effeotff ad6qurt. 22. Je puls nfcuter qu’en demundant des troupes pour la force je scullgnerala, &ant dcnn6 le parngmphe 6 du dlsposltlf, que In force, A la difference des forces de mnlntlen de la pnlx de Gazn et clu Congo, soralt ocnstltu6e pour une pbrlode blen nrr&Oe de trcls mcls. La force ne pcurralt dcnc &re mnlntcnue en existence pour plus de trols rnols que par une ncuvelle decision du Consell. Je sculignernls Bgalement In ,dispositicn du paragraph0 6, selcn lnquelle le coot de lu force ne seralt pas A la charge do 1VNU. A ce prcpos, Je tlens A attirer l’attentlco aur In dernlbre phrnse du purngrnphe 6 du dlspcsltlf, qul tilt clue le SecrBtnirP gBn6rnl “pcurrn uussi acceptcr des 23. I am, of oourae, also gWcq thought to the question of the mediator whloh the draft lesulution would aall upon me to designate in agreement with the four Covernr,:ente, and I would expeot to be pkepared to aot qulokly on thle, in aooordanoe with operative paragraph 7 of the draft resolution, onoe the resolutlon la adopted 24. In sum, although the responsibllltles for the Seoretary-General faresen by the draft reeolutlon are serious, they do not differ substantially from pnst I sxperlenoe and I have no hesitation In undertaking them. I oould heavily, of oourae, on ‘fe oo-operation of the Government of Cyprus and G. the other Covernments mentlaned in the draft reeolutlon, for their wholehearted cc-operation and aeeietanoe are vltnl 23. Blen entendu, Je me pr6oooupe ausrl de la question du mbdlateur que, d’aprbe le projet de rbso:utlon, Je serale oharg6 de dbglgner en aocord aver ler quatre gouvernements; je oompterale pouvolr aglr rapldement B oe eujet, oonform6ment au paragraphe 7 du dlsposltlf, une fois le projet de rdsolutlorl adopt& 24. En un mot, blen que le projet de r6rolutlon oharge le SeorBtal.re g6ndral de lourdes responsablllt6a, oee responsablllt6u ne dlffkent pae grandament de cellee qui lul ont btb oonfl(les pnr le pass& et Je n’al auoune h6sltatlon B les aooepter. Je oompte beauooup, blen entendu, sur la ooop&ation du Qouvernement de Chypre et dee autres gouvernuments menttonnh dam le projet de r&olution, oar leur 00op0- ration et leur assistance plelnes et cntl&es eont indispensables pour la bonne ex6outlsn de la rSsolutlon. 25, G&e l’on me permette de f6llolter lee reprbeentants de la Bollvle, du BrBrll, de la C&e-d’Ivo!re, du Maroo et de la Norvbge paur l’habilet8 aveo lr\puelle lle ont men6 les entretlenr pour 1Waboratlon Wne r6solutlon sur la question soumise au Consell. 26. Le PRESIDENT (tradult de l’anglals): Se penes que le Coneell peut maintenant passer au vote sur le projet de rdsolutlon oommun prbsentb par la Bollvle, le BrWl, la C&e-d’lvolre, le Maroo et la Nnrvbge W66711. 27. Le reprdsentant de 1Wnion aovl&ique a demand6 un vote &par8 sur le paragraphe 4 du dlrpoeltlf. En OOna6quenoB, Je demande au Conrell de se prononoer d’abord sur oe paragraphe. to the effeotive implementation of the resolution. 26. May I alto plaoe on reoord my gratifloatlon at the most skilful manner In whloh the representativea of Bolivia, Brazil, Ivory Coast, Moroooo and Norway oonduoted discussions wlth a view to arriving at a resolution on the matter before thla Counoll. 28. The PRESIDENT: I think the Counoll should nav prooeed to ,vote on tlld joint draft reeolutlon submitted by Bolivia, Brazil, Ivory Coast, Moroooo and Norway IW66711. 27. The representative of the Soviet Union has requeated a separate vote on paragraph 4. I shall therefore, aooordingly, put that paragraph to the vote first. A vote wa8 taken by show of hands. II uSt pruodd4 au vote ii mafn Ievde. In favour: Bolivia, Dracll, China, Ivory Coa&, Moroooo, Norway, United Kingdom of Grsat Britain and Northern Ireknd, United States of Amerloa. Votent pauc Bollvie, BrErll, Chine, C&e-d’Ivolre, Et&e-Unls dVAtr.6rique, MaroO, NorvBpe, Royaume- Uni de arande-Bretagne et d’lrlande du Nord. Votent oontre: N8nnt. Apfnet: None. A&t&in& Caeohorlovakia, Franoe, Union of Soviet SOOlallrt Republlor. Sabatiennent: FranOB, ToMoorlovaqule, Union der Rdpubllquer rooialfrter sovi8tlquer. Par 8 trolx ooatre r&m, eve0 3 akhntfons, 10 peragraph3 ert adopt& ltba pareprnph wae adopted by 8 votes in favour, none agafnrt, with 3 aQtentionr. 28. The PRERIDENTI We shall naw vote on the draft Naolution 81 a wbotr. 18. IA PRESIDENT (tradult de l%ngltir)c Nour rllonr maintanant prrrrr au vota &. fWWMbl@ du projet d6 s!wwio& A vote was taken by show of hands. fin, favour; Bolivia, Brnzll, Chlnn, Czeohoslovnltin, Vrance, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Norwny. IJnion of Soviet. Soclnlist Ikq~ublics, Unlted I<lngdom of Greul BrltRin and Northern Ireland, United Stntes of Amorloa. ll est proc4d-5 au vote $ mafn fevt?e. Votent pour: Bollvle, Br6611, Chine, COWd’lvoire, Etats-Unis d’AmbrIque, I’ranoe, Maroo, Norvbge, Hoyaume-Uni de Grancle-Bretagne et dWande du Nerd, ‘TohBcoslovaquie, Union des HBpuubllques soclnlistes sovl6tiyues. Against: None. Vote& centre: Nbant. Alu’tainfng* None. S’abstienncnt: N6ant. A I’unanfmftt?, le projrt de r&olufion est adopt& The draft resolution was &opted unrmimously. 29. The YIXESII)ENT: I now give the floor to the 29. Le PIlESIDISNT (traduit de l’anglois): Je donlIe maintenant lu pnrole uu rq&t;entcint de lu I*‘rance. 32. Our reservatlons, moreover, are made even greater by the diffioulties 3f implementation because of whioh, as is apparbnt from. the text of the reaolution. oartloularlv heavy rer~pcnsibilities nre lalcl on the beoretary&eneril. The !;eourity Counoil is thus divesting lteelf of respons~bllities whioh belong to it hut whio6 would olearly be dlffioult to disohargr‘. Thie oan only oonfirm our reservations of prinoiple. While, of oourse, not questioning In the slightest the Seoretc?ry-Qeneral’e wisdom and prudenoe in these mattere, the Frenoh delegation oonsidera that this is really going very far in the direotion of delegating powers to one man, We wish in any event to streae that this deoision must not be regarded as a preoedent. 33. The immediate objeotlve is, of oourae, to endthe armed oonfliot between the two oommunitiee. But that will not resolve the fundamental problems whioh the Republic of Cyprus is faoing today and whioh result preoisely from the ooexistenoe of these oommunitiee -the Greeks, who are the majority, and the Turks, who are the minority. It will be a long and hard task to find the neoeasary solutions, whioh must be both just and senrible, requiring of oourae, ohsnger in the ryrtem now in foroe. 34. The appointment of a mediator may faoilltats the firrt rteps in that direotion, The likelihood ir that a drawn-out prooers will be inevitnble whloh will be bra t ‘t%” to a olore only 8fter the neoeesery underrtan lng lr rraohd between Qreeoe and Turkey. @, There are the f8w oonuiderations whloh mydelo- @tlon WiUhed to put before you to a&in our vot6 at tho eonolurlon of the dobato. 36. The PRESIDENT: I now oallonthe representative of Czecboulovnltln. 37. Mr, HAJIX (Czeohoslovnkin) (trnnslntetl from French): As n pnrticlpnnt in the informnl exohnnges of viowv which preceded the drnfling of the resolution just adouted. the Czechoslovnk delegntlon hns never concenleti itY nttitude or the rensons~whlch provented it from nssoclntln~ Itself fully with tho spons~re of thnt resolution in ti;e drnftlng bf their text. 38. Enrlior In the dobnte bore 111 the Council, we exprcswtl lhc view-nntl It remnlns our profm\nd con- 33. L’objeotif imm6diat eat, blen entendu, la fin du oonflit arm6 qul oppose les deux oommunaut60. Mnis oela ne r4eoudra pas les probl&mes de fond auxquels fait face aotuellement la Rdpublique de Chypre et qui r4sultent pr6ois6ment de la ooexistenoe de ces oommunautis, dont l’une, oelle qui eet majoritoire, ost le peuple greo, et ltautre, oelle qui est minorltaire, est le peuple two. Ce sera une Q)uvre de longue haleine sue de trouver 19s aolution8 nboesrairer, CM doivent itre des solutions (quitabler et pe bon aeio, n&ssitant, blen entendu, le ohangemec\t du rysMme prbsentement en vigueur. 34. La dbslgnation du m(ldiateur peut faolliter ler premiers pas danr une klle dlreotion, I1 eet probable quQn long prooerarr 6era fnhitable, dont le terms dovra n6aerralrsment 6tre pr&&i( d’une entente entr6 la Ctrha et la Turqule, 80, ,Toller rant Irr quolquea oonrid4rationr quo ma 131 r t&ion totuit k rxpowr pour oxpll uer k3 v& I&O le viol dc4mettro on oonolurion du d 4bbrt. 36. L8e PRESIDENT (traduit de l’anglals): Je donne mnintennnt 10. pnrole nu reprbsentant de In TchBcoslovnquie. 37. M. HAJILX (l’ch6coslovnq~~le): Aynnt pris pnrt aux dchnngos de vu08 offlcieux qui ont pr6c6d6 la r6dnctIon de In r6solutIon qui vlont d’btre aclo@e, la dbl0gution tchdcoslovnque n’s jnrnnis cnch6 88 position ni les rnisons qui ne lui ont pa9 permie de 8’assocler pleinement nux autourn du projet pour In r6dnction de ce dernler. 30. D(ljh au tours clu tl6but au seln tlu Consoil, nous nvions oxprim l~oplnion -- et oeln rente notre pro- 39. our delegation fully agrees with those of our oolleaguee who have emphaeieed the Seoretary-Qeneral’~ ability, talent and merit and his devotion to the oause of peaoe and the United Nntione. But we have serious doubt8 regarding the olauee whioh tranefere to the Seoretary-General a responsibility that, under the striot letter of the Charter, belong6 exelusively to the Seourity Council itself. That ie why we nbetained In the vote on operative paragraph 4. 39. Notre d616gation est pleinsment d’aooord awo ceux de nos oollbgues ~1 ont soulign6 lea oapaoiflr, le talent et les merites du SeorOtalre gbneral, ainal que Bon d6vouement A la oauae de la p&ix et des Nation6 Uniea, Mais noue avons dee doutee earieux en oe qui oonoerne la dieposition qui transfbre au Seordtaire gdn6ral une responeabilit8 qul, t;n vertu de la etrlote application de la Charte, n’appartient qurau Conseil de s8ouritb lui-mame. Cleat pourquoi no118 noua Bommee abstenurr dana 18 vote our le paragraphe 4. 40. In spite of the weaknesses of the reeolutlon, whioh we had oooahion to oritioize in the oourae of oonveraations with its sponaora, the Czeohoslovak delegation voted for it out of reepeot for the faot (hat the Cyprus delegation ooneiders it to be aooeptable and in the hope that ite implementation will speedily oreate conditions that will facilitate the Cyprus Qovernment’s effort@ to maintain and etrengthen the oountry’s independence and unity, By 80 doing, we have ehown-as we ehall never fail to do-our ruuuort for the just oau@e of the independenoe, eovereibty and territorial integrity of the Republio of Cyprur and the defenos and ooneiatent applioation of the prinoiplee of the Charter. 41. Before ooncludlng my explanation of vote, I rhould like on behalf of my delegation, to note with regret the abeenoe of the reprerentative of the Peonlet Republio of China, the only lawful reprsre&ti?e of China, to whom fall8 the offioe of President of the Counoil during thir month of Maroh, and to rrrffirm the Caeohoolovak Qovrrnmentts well-known porition with regard to thlr faot and itr oauae~, 40. Malgrb lea faibleeeee de la r6rolution, que naa avonn ou l’oooaelon de oritiquer au ooura de oonverratione aveo 6ee auteuro, respeotant le fait que la ddldgation ohypriote oonridbre oe texte oomme aooeptable et erp6rant que @on applioation ne tardera pne A order der oondltiona qui faolliteront len effort6 du Qouvernement ohypriote pour mainknir ot renforoer l’ind6pendanoe et 1’unitJ du payr, la dbldgatlon tch6oorlovaque a votb paur le projet. En agirrant atnri. elle n’a baa oera6. et ne oaaaerapaa. do donner ron itppul A le Jurte oaure de l~indbpbndjmoe, de la souverainet.4 et de lW&rritO terrltorlale de la R~uublique de Chypre, ainsi-qu% la d6fense et B Yap& oatlon oonrtante de8 prinolper de la Char& 41. Avant de oonolura mon sxplioation de vote, je tienm, au nom de ma dWgation, b noter avoo regret l’abrenoe du reptisentant de la R6publiqur populain de China, reul repr$rentant 16gal de la Chine, auquel appartient la prWdenoa du Conrell pcur 06 molr ds mar@, et A r6afflrmer la porition bion ooanue du Qouvernement toh(ooslovarque A Mgard do 01 fait et de 8ea oaum. 41, The PREEllDENT; 1 am sure that allthomombers of the Ceunoil for1 gratiflod that thr Maolutlon Jurt adopted, whloh redounds to the oredit ofthrflve rponsoring Powere, had the unanimoue support of the Counoil. This nugurs well for the future of the Repub- Ilc of Cyprus nntl for the stnblllty of the Motlltorruncnn nron. 4_R La PREfHDENT (tradutt b lW@tr I Je ruir s!& q;tr tour I&r membros du Oon@oii 18 0 ii @litcat Bs *air qu3 18 r4aolutton qui viot dWre a&@& Iaquoll8 fait honnlur aw oinq pufssanoer qui l’ont pr(lrentee, n b6ttbficiti de ltappui de tous 10s tnernbresdu Conseil. C’est ln uu bou nuguro pour l’nvenlr de la 103publiquc de Chypre et pour lo atnbllltd dms lu rdgiou tnbditerrant3otlno. 43. Mny I tnkc Ihitt opportuully on behalf of the Councll to thnuk the I~oroip;n Minleto~* of Cyprue nntl the representnllvctr of Greece nntl Turkey for tholr pnr- 4% Je no voudrais pm lnisaer paoeer cetto oocnelon aune remeroier, nu nom du Coneeil, lo Minielre dee nffuiros btrungh~~ de Chypre et lee re~m(faontants do In Grbce et de In ‘Ibrquie tl’nvolr pnrtici$ et npportb leur ooncoure ltux dBlIbBrntlona du Conaell. tlcIptttlotl rtnd co-cylutYttioll in tt1o dulIlmtYIllontl of ttw c0ut1c11.

Sin08 there is no further business, the meeting atande adjourned. The meeting rose at 11.40 a.m. ImuANo,IIum, ,,1,1ONl”” O,,lCl, OuWm. H OCCANlA/OCtANiC