S/PV.226 Security Council

Gentl....l7lan, we. have before us the Secretary- General's reports on the credeJ1.tials of the Argentine represen,tative, Ambassador José Arce, and of bis altemate, Dr. Rodolfo Munoz (document S/635), and those of the eanàdian representative, des sur l'Argentine, son S/635), rUé, pages 3. Welcome to the three new members of the Seeurity CouneR

It is my pleasant prhd1ege; as President of the Security Council at the beginning of this year, to welcome, on the Council's behalf, the ~presen­ tatives of the new members elected duriug the last session of the General Assembly. They come, according to our established rule, to rclieve the departing members who bade us farewell at our last meeting. The three newly-elected countries have already played an important part hl the work of the various organs of the United Nations. They will undoubtedly play a no less important part in the work of the Security Council. 1 thèrefore welcome Ambassador Arce, representaâve of Argentina, and Mt. Pearson,Canadian representative and Under--Secretary of $tate for External Affairs. We welcome their partieipation in our work. Mt. AnCE (Argentina) (translated jram Spanish): 1 wish to. thank the President, my distinguished friend Ambassador van Langenhove, fot ms kiad words of welcome, and 1 snouId like to. assure both him and the fuL~e Presidents ,of the Council of the loyal c0-6peration of the Argentine GôverIimènt in ttiaking the work ofthis illustilous body as fruitfuI ~. circumstances may pen:o.it. 1 have been specially.instructed by my Govemment to repeat here what 1·have said previously : namely, that in sigDingthe San Francisco Charter, oUr country pledged. iUjeIf to giv~ the firmest support to the United Nations. It believes that it.. bas fulfill(ld tha:t pledge so far, and it will continue to> m;:tke. specialéfIorts to do so in the Security Copncil. 1 take tbis opportunity of reaftirming bere· that the statement 1 have just made is completely borne out by the facts. In îts137 Ye~.·of.mdependenêe, our country has•...never •• swervedfrom •its pàcific. course. The principles whîch havegoverned ourconduct during thatperiod show our deterdlination toiespectthe free~Y-eJtpressedwill of ~. poeples, and the solidaritYandééon0rnicc~operatioIi thatare essential if man is tè):1lèsparedthe hardShips of .wantand mjustice'Vierespectthe càU8e ofpeace and devotè aIl our energies· te it. r~ ~iguel de· TucUl"Uan, birthplace, of the ~1al'a- ~ tion of Independen~e of the Umt~d Provmce.~ of ? the South. Such ;!re the principles which will ~ , guide .the Argenti.ne delegation in the Security il Co~cil. ~i 1 1 s~Guld ~e f~!IDg t~ expt~ss au my fe~Jjngs 1 ~ on this OCCRSICU fi 1 onutted to say how preud 1 ~ am to .oc.cupy. the seat vacated by Brazil ~n ~i completion of Its terro. of office ~n the Co~?il. ï, 1 aIi1 happy to h.li.ve the opportunity d testifymg ~ to. the emment 9u.alities of m~ pre:fecessor, ~ Ambassador Mumz, "and of paymg ~bu~e on l behalf of the. Arg~mll1e people ta theIr fnends, J the people of Erazil. ' • ~ Mt. PEARSON' (Canada): 1 wish te thank the ~ President t'or hi, •s welcome. It is a great honour 1 Monsieur for a country to be elected as a ;member of the Security Council of the United Nations. It is an even greater responsibility. My country, Canada, hopes by its record on the. Security Council t~ deserve the honour and to dis~harge the respollSi-1 ,bi!ity in a way which will commend itseli not oruy to the Members of the United Nations but ta our own people. . . It is a special soUrce of satisfaction to us, Mr. President, that we take our place at this Council table under yom presidency, not cnly because we have for you personallya great esteem and regard as a wise and experienced statesman, but because you represent a'country, Belgium,. which has been our tried and true friend over many years of war and peace. .. 4. Adoption of the agenda S. Discussion of the situation~ in Jammu and Kashmir

The agenda iucludes the exainination of the letter, ' men q~t~.J..,IID).~'l..~:9LJ9.4~" on the situation in the adressée State of Jammu and Kashmir,addressed by the le Indian, representative to the President of the dàns Security Council. The Secmity Council was convened following the receipt of the communication referred' to in QUI agenda as~enLS..ÂQZ.~Jince the notices were sent 6ut~ the Secretary-General has received a telegram from the Govemment of Pakistan, dated 3 January, as~g for the considération of fuis question to be adjourned; ,this telegram and also the Secretary-General's reply, referring the de jour, cette télégramme, du men du 1 The text of documlmt S/62f' follows : Karachi, 3 January 1948. Secretary-General United Nations Organization Lake Success, ~ew York The Pakistan Ambassador to the United States of America has informed us that India's case against Pakistan regarding Kashmir has been fixed for the fust hearing on January 6th and you have asked himfor eabled credentials of our representatives. We have not y~t seen India's -referenee to the Security Couneil as it was telegraphed cn January Ist in :il cypher which we eould not dccipher and wc had to ask for repetition twice. The ten has not yet been deciphered and India has promi~ed to send us a eopy by air tcmorrow afternoon. In the circumstances it is impossible for us to prepare our case and place it befor~ the Security Council by me 6th. We are also proposing to send /Jill" Foreign Minister as our chicf delegate to present our ease before the Security Couneil. The Foreign Minister has gone to Burma to rept'esent Pakistan in Rurma Independence celebrations and ret'lrns ta Karachi on the 7th of January. We request stay of proceedings to give us .reasonable time to prepare our case and tCl dispatch ourdelegation. This is clearly neeessary for a proper consideration of the case. Meanwhile, we are directing Mr. Hasan Ispahani, our Ambassador i'1 U.S.A., to proceed ta New York aed to remain in touch \Vith you. Prime Ministcr, Pakistan Karachi In reply ta Your Excellency's cable of 3 January, have the h.onour to il1form you that in accordance with the rules of procellure and a specifie request by the Indian Government, the S~urity Couneil 1S meeting on 6 January. Your communication will he put before the Conneil and your repres~ntative, Ambassador Ispahani, roay request the necessary delay for preparing your case. Only the Seeurity Council may grant this request. Trygve Lm, Secretary·General. paraissent points ct ticle portée vernement au sollicité pour mettre sivement mentionner. l'Inde sans de devant le Conseil soient t-il le Conseil estîme-t-il sentants l'examen cipation demander la et, l'Inde vernement tants prendre Conseil ? Conseil "Sujet représentant " " In the tirst place, are there any objections to India and Pakistan being allowed, under Article 31 of the Charter, to take part without voting in the discussion of the question brought before the COUDcil by the Government of India ? If there is no objection 1 shaIl assume that the Council agrees to invite these two States to participate in the discussion. 1 DOW come ta the second point: should the Conncil approve the postponement requested by the Fakistan Govemment ? This raises a preliminary question: does the Conncil consider it necessary to invite the Indian .and Pakistani representatives to participate in the .consideration of this request for a postponemen~ ? 1 think 1 am justified in saying that the presence of these two representatives would enable us to ask the Pakistan representative to specify the extent of the postponement requested by bis Govemment and would, morecver, give the Indian representative an opportunity to state the views of bis Govemment ou this subject. Are there any objections to the representatives (lf India and Pakistan being asked to take their places at the Council tableat once? As there is.no objection, 1 assume the COUDcil agrees. The Secretary-General has prepared a report conceming the credentials of Mr. M. C. Setalvad, representative of the Govemment of India, and, in event of bis being absent, of MI. P. P. Pillai. The Secretary-General has aIso prepared a report on the credentials of Sir Mohammed Za- frullah Khan, the Minister for Foreign Afiairs of Pakistan, and, in t.he event of bis being absent, of Mr. M. A. Hasan Ispahani. These two' reports (documents S/631 and S/633) have been circulated. 1 presume that they evoke no objections. 1 shall now ask the representatives of Indiaand Pakistan to take their places at the Council table. At the invitation of the President, Mr. Pillai, representative of lndia, an~ Mr. lspahani, repre- sentative of Pakistan, took their places at the Council table. The Council will realize that it has not yet been possible for my Government to study the case in order to send me the necessary brief even for this in\tial hearing. My Government is sending its Foreign Minister, Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan, to present its case before the Security Couneil. At the moment, there- fore, 1 can do little more than to say a few words from which the representatives of the countries here assembled may judge for themselves the background of the complaint of the Govemment of India. My Govemment has repeatedly urged on the Government of India the necessity of peaceful settlement by negotiation of the 1ispute in Kash- mir. 1 can do no betterthan to quote from a speech broadcast from JJahore . . .

. 1 must remind you that we are discussing only the request for an adjournment. 1 think it would be better to postpone your statement on the substance of the matter untillater. Mr. ISPAHAN! (pakistan) : 1 accept the decision of the President. 1 submit that this meeting should be adjourned in order ta give the Foreign Minister of Pakistan sufficient time to reach New York. He should be here about the 14thor 15th of this month. fi the Sacurity Council sees its way to granting an adjouI'llDicnt until that d9.,'e, 1 shall be grateful. 1 can assure the members of the Council that the Foreign Minister will lose no time in arriving in New York, since he is as anxious aseveryone eIse ta have the matter placed before the Security Council as expeditiously as possible. The .PRESIDENT (translated /rom French): Would anybody like ·to speak on the adjoumment? Arethere any objections? Mr. PILLAI (India): This is a matter of extreme importance and urgency for India. Just as 1 was coming ta take my place at this table, 1 was handed a .telegram conceming the grave developments which have now taken place, developments which we have tried to convey to the Council in the letter which 1 submitted to il. This telegram says that on 6 January, 4,000 uniformed )1 '1 • fl But for aU that, my Govemment realizell that the request for adjoumment which has been made by the representative of Pakistan is a request t which it cannot properly objecte In aU fairness, wc feel that we shaU have to say yes to what has been asked for. Therefore, 1 shaH say for my Govemment that it has no objection to granting the ad~oumment requested by ilie representative of Pakistan. parole? ment

DoeS nobody want to speak? 1 note that there is no cbj~tion to the adjoumment. The Pakistan representative has just informed us that the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Pakistan could he here on 14 or 15 January. That being the r,ase we coald hold our next meeting on Thwsday, 15 Joo.uary, at 2.30 p.m.. dit étrangères le fixer à Mr. PILLAI (India): Mr. President, 1 am not quite certain that the adjournment asked for should be as long as you have just now indicated. 1 thought that perhaps a week's adjournment might be enough. Of course, it i8 none of my business to interpret .the wÎ'3bes of the representative of Pakistan, but 1 s.~e in the newspapers that bis Foreign Minister was in Rangoon on 3 January and would b'~ reaching Karachi on :5 January. So, sir, if you were to make it a week's adjournment from now. it would be possible for .hint to be here by at lea"t next Monday ? Président, l'ajournement aussi ner. pouvoir à . Pakistan, Ministre trouvait à le d'une sible pense-t-il de semaine

Does the Pakistan representative tbink that bis Minister of Foreign Affairs could he here by the beginning of next week ? Mr. ISPAHANI (Pakistan) : 1 do not know where the representativ~ of InQia bas obtained his information. 1 have not received such information frOID my Government. 1 have already submitted ta the 3ecurity Council that my Govemment is equaUy anxious to take up this matter and other matters before ·the Councll. As soon as Sir Zaftullah Khan is able to get away from Karachi, he will do sO. If he is able to arrive bere earller than Wednesday, 14 January, 1 shall, if the Security Council directs me, iDform the Secretariat ; the -security Council cau then, if it desires, change the tÎDle of the meeting. 1 do not wish to suggest a date now~ only to find that my Foreign Minister nas not been able to arrive bere on tÎDile. 1 am keeping a day or two margin in hand, taking lito consideration the bad :ftying conditions in Europe and across the Atlan.tic. 1 assure the Council"that 1 desire to be as helpful asJean. Je renseignements. de déclaré nementqésire question Sir fera. credi si Conseil de un.e Ministre sibilité d'un c""nditions "'. de possible.

1 suggest that ·the Council decide to meet again at der que notre the beginning of next week and not later than de TWOHUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVENTH MEETING Held at Lake Success, New York, on Thursday, 15 /amlary 1948, at 10.30 a.m. President .·Mr. F. VAN LANGENHOVE (Belgium). Present: The representatives of the following countries: Argentina, Belgium, Canada, China, Colombia, France, Syria, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Kingdom, United States of America. 6. Provisional agenda (document S/Agenda 227) 1. Adoption of the agenda. 2. Letter dated 1 January 1948 from the repre- sentative of India addressed to the President of the Security Council concerning the situation in Jammu and Kashmir (document S/628).t 7. Reports of the Secretary-General con· cerning the credentials of the represen· tatives of Canada, the United Kingdom and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Repllblic (documents S/643, S/637, S/638)

Members of the Council have before them reports by the Secretary-General on the credentials which have bp.en .preserited by the Governments of Canada (document S/643), of the United Kingdom (document S/637), and of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (document S/638), accrediting General A G. L. McNaughton for Canada, Mr. P. J. Noel Baker for the United Kingdom in connexion with the debate on Kashmir; Mr. Dmitri Z. Manuilsky, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, as representative of the Ukrainian SSR, and Mr. Vasili Tarasenko as bis altemate. These reports calI for no comments by the Council. Before dealing with the agenda, 1 should like briefiy to welcomeGeneral McNaughton, who to represent Canada on the Council for the first time. The members of the Council who have taken part in the work of the Atomie Energy Commission have been able to appreciate General