S/PV.1330 Security Council

I should like first of a11 to pay a heartfelt tribute to the retiring President, Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg, whose exemplary exercise of the functions of bis high office deserves to be singled outwith sincere praise. 1. Le PRESIDENT (traduit de l’espagnol): Je tiens tout Conseil exprimer dont il a exercb ses fonctions, laquelle merite les éloges les plus sincéres. 2. In presiding over this Council, Mr. Goldberg, a 2. Juriste Conseil en mettant son intelligence au service de la Charte et du reglement sans jamais plier la Charte ou le règlement 5 des intérêts ou 5 des objectifs de la communaut8 internationale, man of law, a great jurist and a great judge, placed his intelligence and wisdom at the service of the Charter and the rules of procedure, and at no time placed the Charter or the rules of procedure at the service of any interests or aims unrelated to the purposes and principles of the international community, 3. Il a su &tre juste et impartial sans jamais, pour autant, perdre son sens de l’humour, m&me lorsqu’il a dfi faire usage du marteau pr&identiel ner l’ordre toujours les signes distinctifs de cette personnalite marquante. 3. Ne was upright, he was impartial, and never lost his good humour when he had to rap the gave1 in the midst of bitter debates. He always had the smile and the air of goodwill which are SO charaoteristic of him and which are unmistakably his. 4. VOUS savez tous que, le 30 novembre, un éminent président dire que je conserve le souvenir de chacun de mes coll&ues chacun se caractgrisait mais tous avaient en commun des dons remarquables. Je tiens donc également 5 rendre hommage 5 mes coll&ues en particulier, 4. Al1 the members of this Council know that on 30 November a great President stepped down. In addition, I well recall the activity of each and every one of my colleagues who held the Chair before me and who each displayed their own distinctive characteristics and qualities while possessing the same common denominator of outstanding aptitude and ability. 1 pay a tribute, therefose, to Ambassador Goldberg and to my other colleagues who have preceded me during the time that 1 have been a member of this important and complex body. 6, I am sure that 1 cari Count on the co-operation of a11 members to make my task less onerous.

I thank you, Mr. President, for your more than kind and gracious remarks, which reflect SO much your personality as a, distinguished colleague whose company and advice and counsel we have SO greatly enjoyed since you joined our ranks. 8. It was a great privilege to preside over the Security Council during the last month, and if 1 had any success in that post it was due largely to your co-operation, Mr. President, and that of my colleagues on the Council. 9. Although this is the first public meeting that we have held since you assumed your post, Mr. Pisesident, it is an open secret that in the private meetings which we held under your leadership you demonstrated qualities which assure a most successful month for you as President of the Security Council. It is indeed a happy omen that as you took office you led us to a most important decision, namely the reelection of our distinguished Secretary-General to a new term of office. You demonstrated in the handling of this very important issue-probably the most important issue during this session of the General Assembly-those qualities of objectivity, fairness and leadership which your outstanding record as a jurist and a statesman commends to a11 of us. 10. You have been more than kind to me, Mr. President, 1 thank you and I pledge you my complete cooperation as you assume your post. Adoption of the agenda T%e agenda was adopted. Admission of new Members ta the United Nations Letter dated 30 November 1966 from the Prime Minister of Barbados addressed to the Secretary- General (S/7607)

The Council Will now consider the application for the admission of Barbados as a Member of the United Nations submitted on 30 November 1966 by the Prime Minister of Barbados [S/7607]. In this connexion, 1 mtght mention that the Council has before it a draft resolution [SP76091 sponsored by Argentina, New Zealand, Nigeria, Uganda, the United Kingdom and Uruguay. 12. Lord CARADON (United Kingdom): 1 am very happy to be one of the sponsors of the draft resolution before ns. In sponsoring it 1 am in the company of 13. For a decade or SO, from the sister island of Jamaica, I was able to watch the progress of the island of Barbados, and 1 learned then greatly to admire the sturdy qualities of the Barbadian people. From the early years of the seventeenth Century there has been a close and continuous association between Barbados and my own country, and we like to think that WC and the Barbadians have some characteristics, some instincts and some convictions in common. But whatever Barbados has taken from English systems and institutions, it has added to them the imprint of its own strong Barbadian per- 13. Pendant une décennie environ, la Jamafque, j’ai pu observer les progres de la Barbade et j’ai alors appris B admirer profondement les qualités solides de son peuple. Des le début du XVIIBme siècle, il a existé une association &roite et continue entre la Barbade et mon propre et nous aimons a penser que nous avons, avec les habitants de la Barbade, certaines caractériStiWeS, certains instincts et certaines convictions en communs Mais, quels que soient les 6léments que la Barbade a pu emprunter au système et aux institutions tanniques, elle leur a ajout& l’empreinte personnalité. au monde plus s0r de lui et plus indépendant, sonality. Indeed, 1 know of no people in the world more sure of themselves and more independent in spirit. 14. The first outstanding characteristic of Barbados arises from the fact that there is no country which has better demonstrated a devotion to the Stern discipline of education, and far beyond the beautiul shores of Barbados, the exacting strictness and the high standards of Barbadian teaching are well known and greatly respected. 1.4. La Premiere caractéristique Barbade vient du fait qu’il n’y a pas de pays qui Soit plus attache a une discipline sév&re en mati?zze d’enseignement et, bien au-delà des rivages merveilleux de la Barbade, le niveau, la rigueur élevge de l’enseignement dans cette connus et hautement respect&. 15. Barbados has also established a reputation for sportsmanship which is world-wide. This may mean little to many members of this Council who have the misfortune not to understand cricket; but let me assure them that in every Commonwealth country in the world Barbadian batsmen and bowlers are admired, envied and feared for their ski11 and power and for the effortless ease of their superiority. 15. La Barbade a aussi acquis une excellente tation en matiere sportive Cela signifiera peut-être peu de chose pour de nombreux membres de ce conseil qui n’ont Pas le bonheur de comprendre le cricket, mais, qu’il me soit permis de leur assurer que, dans chaque pays du Commonwealth, les batsmen et bowlers de la Barbade admires, envies et redout6s pour leur habileté et leur puissance de m@me que pour leur sup6riorité d’aisance. 16. A côté de ce culte de l’enseignement et de hautes traditions de sportivité, caract8ristique de la démocratie parlementaire autre pays au monde ou presque, a l’exception 16. Combined with a depotion to sound education and the highest traditions of sportsmanship, Barbados has another outstanding characteristic: a greater experience of parliamentary democracy than almost any country in the world except my own. 17. In these days when SO many countries are making hesitating experiments in new systems of government, and where true democracy is SO rare, Barbados takes a well-justified pride in the fact that its Parliament has been established for more than 300 years. 17. A une Epoque oh tant de pays font, a tatons, Itexpérience de nouveaux systémes de gouvernement où. la vraie être fiere, a BtB établi il y a plus de 300 ans. 18. Not long after the Pilgrim Fathers arrived at Plymouth Rock to start their infant colony on the savage toast of Massachusetts, the duly elected representatives of the people of Barbados were gravely legislating in their parliamentary assembly; and while we in England, more than 300 years ago, were fighting a bloody civil war to establish the rights of Parliament, the Barbadian Legislative Assembly was already in continuous and uninterrupted session. 18. Peu apr&s l’arrivde des pèlerins à Plymouth Rock, a 1’Bpoque oh sur les côtes sauvages du Massachusetts, sentants dtlment élus de la population de la Barba& légiféraient parlementaire, nous nous livrions, en Angleterre, sanglante aux fins d’établir les droits du Parlement, l’Assembl&e Iggislative de façon r6guliére et ininterrompue. 18. So we welcome today a comparatively small island with a comparatively small population but with 19. C’est pourquoi nous sommes heureux d’accueillir aujourd’hui cette ne relativement petite, de population

We are addressing ourselves today to the letter directed to the Secretary- General by the Prime Minister of the independent State of Barbados in which the Prime Minister applies for membership for his country in the UnitedNations. 21. Accompanying the letter is a solemn declaration made on behalf of the Government of Barbados that Barbados accepts the obligations contained in the Charter and undertakes to fulfil them. 22. The requirements of the Charter and of rule 58 of this Council’s provisional rules of procedure having been met, my delegation supports the admission of Barbados to membership of the Organization. 23. We do SO, however, and with great warmth, because there are reasons beyond the fact that the minimum requirements set out in the documents which guide our deliberations have been met. 1 do SO in pasticular because, as current Chairman of the Commonwealth Group in the United Nations, 1 am proud to welcome here yet another independent State which has progressed through orderly constitutional processes into the ranks of that free association of States sharing a similar heritage. We do SO also because we recognize the honour which the very distinguished Prime Minister of this ancient island has done the United Nations in SO unhesitatingly seeking to undertake the duties and the rights of membership. 24. The long saga of Barbados is a composite of wealth and influence built upon suffering, of revolt in pursuit of liberty, of economic hardship and readjustment, and of the search for identity in a world of nation-States. 25. In the first two centuries of the island’s modern history, sugar was king and Barbados the sugar bowl of Europe. In the mid-seventeenth Century, a British colonial officia1 could Write that Barbados was the “fair jewellt’ of His Majesty’s Crown, a little Pearl more precious and rare than any possessed by the kings of Europe. This island and its fellows of the Caribbean had a profound influence on the economic history of Europe and the United States. Xndeed, during the eighteenth Century, the mainland colonies -the thirteen States which were to become the United States, plus Canada-ran a poor second to Barbados and the other islands of the West Indies in the estimation of the British Parliament. Writing to afriend in New York, a wealthy English merchant could say: “It was laid down as a fundamentall that the Islands 26. It is probably not too great an historical fancy to suggest that the great Barbadian slave revoit of 1816 and the passage seventeen years later, by a more enlightened British Parliament, of the Emancipation Act mark two of the great milestones along the xoad which has led to the attainment of independence a short week ago by the proud sons of the defiant slaves, The debates in Britain which this question provoked a Century and a half ago, and the changes in the intellectual and moral climate which these debates produced, are an essential part of the background to the contemporary climax of decolonization which has brought such powerful new influences into the word and into this Organization. 27. Sugar is still king in Barbados, but in the manner of modern constitutional monarchs its omnipotence is reduced and the benefits of its patronage more widely shared. Indeed, it has been one of the chief Preoccupations of the Barbados Government in recent years to diversify both production and exports. Although they face the formidable problems posed by a population density of more than 1,400 people to the square mile-extreme even by Caribbean standardsa rapid population growth and small territorial size, the people of Barbados, through hard work and enterprise, have succeeded in achieving an impressive rate of development. That they have done this without acquiring an excessive dependence on external subsidy is even more to their credit. 28. With a sound economy, a stable political system and above a11 a dynamic and enterprising people, this new State has achieved its sovereignty in auspicious circumstances indeed. 29. We welcome Barbados here as another member of the growing group of Caribbean States with ethnie roots in Africa which draw their cultural inspiration fsom Africa and Europe as well as from the Americas. We are convinced that Barbados Will make as constructive a contribution to the work of this Organization as its sister States have already done.

As a felIow member of the Commonwealth, Nigeria had great pleasure in joining the list of CO-sponsors of draft resolution S/7609, dealing with the admission of Barbados to the United Nations. But Nigeria has another source of pleasure in this connexion, resulting from the ethnie ties between the Caribbean countries, on the one hand, and Africa, on the other. 1 hope, therefore, that their fellow countries around the Americas Will pardon us if we take this exceptionai interest in the developments in the Caribbean area. 32. A few days ago, when Barbados happily joined the ranks of independent countries, of independent Commonwealth countries, my country was glad to have the opportunity of having a representative on the spot, That representative came back with a glowing report of the events connected with the celebration of the independence of Barbados. 33. Barbados is a country which is small in area and small in population, but Barbados is also a country which ranks very high in the quality of its people and in the quality of its political leadership. 1 think that, with such assets, the people of Barbados cari look forward to a very promising era of independent existence. 34. From the bottom of our hearts weof the Nigerian delegation congratulate the people of Barbados. We congratulate their Governor General, who happily is present with us today. We wish them a11 the best in the world, and we wish to assure them, in the name of our country, that they cari always Count upon Nigeria for co-operation in every way within the Commonwealth and within this greater community of nations called the United Nations.

As the representative of my country, 1 join my colleagues who have already spoken in expressing great pleasure at this opportunity to vote to recommend the admission of the newly independent State of Barbados to membership in the United Nations. 36. Barbados last month became the hventy-sixth independent nation in this hemisphere, We oongratulate both Barbados and the United Kingdom on the peaceful and friendly manner in which the transition to independence was accomplished. These congratulations I am very glad to extend in person to the distinguished Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, my old friend, George Brown, who graces us with his presence here today. 37 I At the ceremonies in Bridgetown on 30 November Barbados became the twenty-eighth British dependent territory to be granted independence since the Second 38. We believe that Barbados enters the family of nations with a proud heritage which Will serve it well as it faces the challenges of independence. Lord Caradon has made reference to the great democratic tradition of Barbados. Indeed, it is well to remind ourselves that the Barbados House of Assembly, established in 1639, is the third oldest parliament in the Commonwealth of Nations and also the third oldest in the Western Hemisphere. The Barbados Declaration of Rights of 1651 was well known to the framers of our Declaration of Independence and to the framers of our Constitution. Indeed, many of the rights which were proclaimed in the Barbados Declaration of Rights were later echoed in these great AmePcan documents of independence and equality. 39. The people of Barbados have enjoyedfull interna1 self-government since 1961, and their Government was chosen in free democratic elections under universa1 suffrage, SO that country is well prepared to take its place in the family of nations as a sovereign State. 40. Reference has already been made-and 1 shall not repeat what has been said-to the commendable advances that the people of Barbados have made in the economic and social spheres. 41. In conclusion, 1 wish to convey, on behalf of the United States, our sincere congratulations to the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mr. Errol Walton Barrow, and his Excellency, the Governor General of Barbados, Sir John Stow, who have played such an important part in this peaceful transition to independence. 42. The United States welcomes the application of Barbados and looks forward to close association with its representatives here. We gladly support the draft resolutlon submitted here today by its co-sponsors.

It is always a very great pleasure to participate in the consideration of applications for membership of the United Nations, Imight add that we have a particular interest in the application now before us because Barbados, notwithstanding Lord CaradonIs statement that it has a small population, is, like Japan, a densely populated island country. That simple fact alone is enough to engender a close feeling of kinship between our two peoples. 45. The independence of a country is, of course, a very great achievement which must be gxeeted with universal satisfaction and rejoicing. We fully share the happiness of the people and Government of Barbados on the occasion of their independence and offer them our warmest congratulations. 46. Independence also carries with it increased responsibilities and obligations, interna1 and external, to the people of the newly independent country, to its near neighbours and to its more distant neighbours. We are confident that Barbados Will know how to carry its responsibilities well and faithfully to fulfil its obligations. 47. The Japanese delegation looks forward to welcoming the representatives of Barbados to the United Nations. They Will find here many challenging opportunities to contribute to our co-operative efforts for freedom, for peace and for the economic and social advancement of peoples, and we are quite sure that they Will respond with energy and wisdom to those opportunities. 48. In anticipation of the early admission of Barbados to the United Nations, 1 should like to offer to its representatives in advance our best wishes for the peace and prosperity of their country and our pledge of close and harmonious co-operation.

With special pleasure my delegation welcomes today the application of the new State of Barbados for membership of the United Nations. Barbados is located in the same geographical area as two of the three autonomous parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The people of these Overseas parts of the Kingdom rejoice particularly at the fact that Barbados is willing to enter our community of nations. 50. The new State has in its progress towards independence followed a different course from many others, and even in more recent times it took initiatives towards a close relationship with other islands in the region. The efforts io reach a federation of several entities in the Caribbean did not, unfortunately, lead to success. Such a development, we believe, might have opened a brighter future for the 52. Finally, my delegation has no doubt about the willingness of the people of Barbados to live UP to the obligations under the Charter. Let the people of Barbados be convinced of the warm and friendly feelings with which a11 parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands greet the independence of this new Caribbean nation. 53, My delegation Will be happy to support the recommendation for admission of Barbados to the United Nations. 54. Mr, LIU (China): My delegation welcomes the admission of Barbados to our Organization. The people of that Caribbean nation are well known for their peaceful way of life and, as we have heard from several xepresontatives this morning, have had a long and proud history of democratic traditions. 55, In declaring its policy of close association with Che Commonwealth nations as well as the American States, Barbados is destined to play a constructive role as a Member of the United Nations. We are confident that under the leadership of Prime Minister Barrow the new State Will march forward to greater prosperity and make further contributions to the advancement of mankind. 56. In the independence ceremonies at Bridgetown a week ago,. my country was represented by a special envoy, who- -already conveyed the good will and best wiËhes of the Chinese people. 1 needonly say on behalf of my delegation that we shall look forward to amitable co-operation with the delegation of Barbados in furthering the work and purposes of the United Nations.

In co-sponsoring in this Council the draft resolution recommending to the General Assembly that Barbados should be admitted to membership in the United Nations, the delegation of Argentina bas expressed its support for that countryls application for admission, 59. In this connexion, 1 should like to congratulate the United Kingdom on the contribution it is making towards the fulfilment of the aims of the historic Declaration contained in General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV). 60. The admission of Barbados to the United Nations is now a matter of days. I trust that the Security Council Will adopt the draft resolution we have submitted and that the General Assembly Will unanimously accept the recommendation contained in it in time for Barbados to be able to take its seat in the Assembly during the present session. 61. The admission of this new State, which is small in size and limited in resources, is evidence of the confidence that the United Nations has in the people of Barbados and in its leaders. The procedure which the Security Council has followed once again, considering it unnecessary to have the application examined by a committee of the Council, as provided for in rule 69 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure, represents a vote of confidence and an affirmation that Barbados fulfils a11 the requirements laid down in Article 4 of the United Nations Charter. The Argentine delegation has endorsed that view in this case and is co-sponsoring the draft resolution which contains a favourable recommendation. In the future, however, we think that the Security Council should apply the regulations for the admission of new Members in full, although naturally we are always ready to make exceptions where justified, as in the present case. 62. My delegation would like to express its best wishes for the prosperity of Barbados and is confident that the participation of this new State in our work Will result in a valuable contribution of the ideaS of one more American country for the benefit of a11 mankind. i

The delegation of France, lilte the other delegations, wishes to acclaim today the accession to independence of the new State of Barbados and Will most glaclly vote for its admission to the United Nations. 64. This future Member of our Organization which we are welcoming to our midst is by no means a stranger to international relations. Lord Caradon reminded us just now how old are the institutions and traditions of this island. The early part of the seventeenth Century was indeed a heroic epoch, when English, French and Dutch seamen, among others, sailed the Caribbean Sea for purposes which, it must 66. We are familiar with the graciousness and hospitality of the Barbadian people, which contribute SO much to the well-known charm of that islancl. We hope that its singular assets Will enable the new State gradually to overcome its economic difficulties. 67, Confident as we are of the high level of competente and integrity of its leaders, in particular its Prime Minister, Mr. Errol Barrow, we trust that Barbados, like a11 other Member States, Will play its rightful role in the community of nations.

The Security Council is considering an application from the Prime Minister of a new State in the Western Hemisphere, Barbados, for admission to membership in the United Nations. 69. In accordance with rule 58 of the Security Council% provisional rules of procedure, a declaration on behalf of the Government of Barbados is attached to this application stating that Barbados accepts the obligations contained in the Charter of the United Nations and solemnly undertakes to fulfil them. 70. Barbados is the fifth territory of the former British colonial possessions in the West Indies to obtain independence since the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, 71. For almost thrke and a half centusies, Barbados has borne the chains of colonialism which have stifled its desire for freedom and its Will for independence. The prolonged and rapacious exploitation of the island has left its mark on the social and economic life of Barbados and the granting of political independence cannot, of course, automatically remove the acute social and economic problems which need to be SOlved. At the same time, political independence creates conditions in which Barbados should be able to determine independently the future course of its development. 72. On the day of Barbados’s accession to independence, the Soviet Union sent greetings to the people and Government of Barbados. In a table addressed to Mr. Barrow, the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mr. Kosygin, the Chairman of the Council of Mini&ers of the USSR, said, inter alia: “On the occasion of the proclamation of the independence of Barbados, please accept our sincere congratulations and good wishes for the welfare and progress of the people of Barbados as they 73. NOW, in congratulating the people and Government of Barbados on their attainment of independence, the USSR delegation considers it an honour to state that it supports the application by Barbados for membership in the United Nations and Will vote in favour of the draft resolution submitted in document S/7609 by Argentina, Nigeria, New Zealand, Uganda, the United Kingdom and Uruguay, which recommends to the General Assembly that Barbados should be admitted to membership in the United Nations.

It gives my delegation and myself great pleasure to welcome the admission of the newly independent State of Barbados to the United Nations. The people of Barbados have made great progress in many fiel& and, as a newly independent State, Barbados Will face another challenge of social and economic development,. This is indeed a great ta&, but we feel certain that, in a spirit of international co-operation and with the assistance of the United Nations, Barbados, like many newly independent States of Latin America, Asia and Africa, Will attain its goal, 75. We are aware that the many obstacles confronting a newly emerged State are often difficult to overcorne. However, my delegation is confident that the spirit in which this independence was achieved is a manifestation of the true spirit and wisdom with which Barbados Will continue to meet its challenges and obligations in the future. 76. We wish the people of the State of Barbados, who have a proud heritage and democratic traditions, continued progress and success. 7’7. My delegation Will vote in faveur of draft resolution S/7609, and we are grateful to the co-sponsors for having taken this initiative.

The delegation of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria Will vote in favour of draft resolution submitted by Argentina, Nigeria, New Zealand, Uganda, the United Kingdom and Uruguay-your country, Mr. President-concerning the admission of Barbados to the United Nations, Our pleasure in doing so is a11 the greater when we consider the many remarkable qualities of that countsy and its people, which have been dwelt on by SO many speakers during this discussion that there is no need for us to say more. 79. In voting, we shall be mindful also of the fact that Barbados is a country which has just regained its freedom and independence, after many years of colonial domination. 80. My delegation Will have special satisfaction in voting for this draft resolution because it is one of the delegations which, in the Special Committee on 81. We should like to take this opportunity to cong’ratUkite Barbados on its newly acquired indepen&nce and to wish the new State every success, particularly in economic and social matters, SO that it cari consolidate its independence. We hope that Barbados Will thus be able to work together with a11 the other Caribbean States to contribute to the strengthening of peace in the region and hence throughoutthe world.

The delegation of Mali is happy to extend a warm welcome to Barbados as the one hundred and twentysecond Member of our Organization. Mali has a special interest in a11 that relates to decolonization, which remains one of the fundamental objectives of its policy, and we therefore greet with pleasure any development which leads to the independence of a State which has suffered from colonization. 83. We shall therefore vote in favour of the draft resolution contained in document S/7609, dated 5 December 1966. 84. We assure the Barbadian delegation of our whole-hearted wish to co-operate with it and hope that the new Member Will be able, aspart of its newly acquired privileges and obligations under the Charter, to make a valuable contribution to the growth of our Organization, One again, we welcome Barbados to our midst.

The African viewpoint has already been adequately put by my two African colleagues. 1 merely wish to associate myself with the sentiments which have been expressed and to add that as one who four Years ago had the privilege of visiting the island in search of skilled personnel, for which Barbados has been renowned and of which it has a surplus of it, I cari testify to the point which has been made-that Rarbados has indeed reached dizzy heights in the fields of education and sports. A country which, though small in Size, bas such a background of education is, in my view, destined to succeed. It is true that, like a11 other newly independent countries, Barbados is bound to have economic, social and political difficulties. What COuntrY cari say that it does not have such problems? 86. MY own view, as one who represents a newlY independent country, is that there cari be no substitute for independence; good gOVernment cari neVer be a substitute for independence. It is the duty ofBarbados and the dutY of a11 of us newly independent countries to do the best we cari in our political, economic and social development.

Since there are no more speakers on my list, 1 should now like to speak, not as the President, but as the representative of URUGUAY and as a co-sponsor of the draft resolution. 89. As a member of the Committee of Twenty-four, which is responsible for promoting the independence of colonial countries and peoples, 1 have had to concesn myself onmany occasions with the constitutional, political, cultural, economic and other affairs of Barbados, a colonial territory which has now attained its independence and has become a free and sovereign State. 90. In Sub-Committee III, diligently and efficiently presided over by the representative of Iran, Mr. Esfandiary, we studied every aspect 01 the evolution of this important island, whose population never faltered in its resolve to free itself from the colonial régime and become master of its own destiny through the exercise of the right of self-determination as set out in General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960. 91. 1 remember having stated during one of the several meetings we spent considering the British islands in the Caribbean that the besl prospect for the future of those Territories was some form of political federation or economic association, which would enable them to accede to independence through democratic processes, by means of universal suffrage, but that they must have a firm and secure economic base to guarantee their stability and effective development without the risk of possible dependence from which they might slide back to the kind of situation from which they have just emerged. 92. 1 deplosed the failure of the lengthy negootiations between Barbados and the Leeward and Windward Islands to worlc out a federative form of government which would bave given each and every one of the islands greater strength and power and a more promising future. Ilowever, that dit not prevent me from welcoming with great joy and profound hemispheric solidarity the decision of Barbados to become independent on its own, while leaving the door open to the possibility of association with other territories if the peoples concerned SO decided. 93. One of the things we have learnt as members of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples is the vast importance, over and above the strictly political aspect of independence, of the underlying question of economic status, which cari frustrate the 95. Tn any event, the truth is that whether their liberation is joint or individual is a secondary matter compared with the historic fact that they have passed beyond the colonial stage and become autonomous countries. 95. Quelle que soit la façon dont on envisage situation, territoires, ou d’un territoire secondaire par rapport à ce phenomene historique qui transforme autonomes, 96. L’accés a l’independance de cette belle Ele, a l’êconomie solide et d’esprit démocratique, constitue un pas nouveau et d&isif vers l’blimination nialisme qu’uruguayen, et participe 2 San Francisco 3 la création d’un monde nouveau, je salue la Barbade indépendante et jeforme des vœux pour qu’elle jouisse pleinement de sa lfbert8 et de l’exercice prosp&ité économique et du bien-être social. 96, The accession to independence of this beautiful island, which possesses a sound economy anda democratic philosophy, constitutes a further and decisive step towards the abolition of colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. As a Uruguayan, as an Americari, as a democrat, and as the representative of a State wbich helped to found the new world that was born at San Francisco, I greet independent Basbados and wish it full enjoyment of its freedom, due exercise of its democratic rights, economic prosperity and social well-being. 97. J’estime donc que le nouvel Etat remplit les conditions posées par la Charte pour son admission à l’organisation sera, par Con&que&, heureux de voter en faveur de l’admission de la Barbade au sein de la communaut6 internationale. 97. 1 oonsider, of course, that this new State fulfils a11 the requirements laid down in the Charter for admission to the United Nations. Accordingly, Uruguay Will be happy to vote in favour of the admission of Barbados to membership in the international communi ty . 98. Je voudrais ajouter, enfin, que la prdsence de la Barbade dans le forum des nations libres est une nouvelle contribution tannique à l’œuvre de dbcolonisation entreprise depuis 1945, qui transforme les idltes, les sentiments et les réalités politiques et Economiques du monde actuel. Le Royaume -Uni mérite les félicitations de ceux qui luttent pour I’Blimination Nous saisissons donc cette occasionpour rendrehommage a ce pays. 98. In conclusion, 1 should like to point out that Barbados now being part of the company of free nations is a further contribution of the former British Empire to the work of decolonization begun by modern man in 1945, a work which has transformed the ideas, feelings and political and economic realities of our world. The eonduct of the United Kingdom, on this occasion, deserves the esteem and praise of a11 of US who are striving to abolish colonialism, and 1 should therefore like to pay a tribute to it. 99. La liste des orateurs Btant épuisge, le Conseil de sécurité r8soIution dont il est saisi [S/7609]. 99.. Since 1 have no more speakers on my list, the Security Council Will now vote on the draft resolution before it [ S/7609].* Il est proc&dG au vote à main levt?e. d vote was taken by show of hands. The draft resolution was adopted unanimously. u Le projet 100. Le PRESIDENT (traduit de l’espagnol): Conformement & l’article soire du Conseil, je vais demander au Sec&taire g&nEral de transmettre texte de la recommandation du Conseil accompagné du compte rendu st8nographique des débats.

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