S/PV.280 Security Council

This morning we dealt with the application of Italy for membership in the United Nations. The Security Council will now consider the application of Transjordan. Mr. MUNOZ (Argentina): 1 am going to take the advice whioh the President gave to the members of the Security Council before the adjournment of the meeting this morning; 1 a~ going to speak very briefiy. If the President will allow me, 1 shaH speak not only on the question of the admission of Transjordan, but also on the other applications. In view of the result of the voting this morning, it is the opinion of my delegation that no purpose will be served by continuing the discussion and the voting on the other applications. Because of these considerations, 1 shall abstain from voting on aIl the applications with which we are going to deal this afternoon.

I am sorry I did not make my point sufficientJ.y c1ear. My suggrstion was made without any prejudice to the rights of all the memb~rs of the Security Council to l'aise whatever points they wish. I very respectfully submitted the suggestion that if the members of the Security Council had no objections to l'aise, or no new points to bring up, the applications should simply be voted on. Ml'. LAWFORD (United Kingdom): I thank the President for his explanation. As I have nothing new to say about Transjordan, I do not propose ta make any remarks. Ml'. EL-KHOURI (Syria): AU these applications have been discussed before, and all our attitudes have been e~pressed in the pasto I believe that no member of ùe Council has changed bis attitude, and it seems from the result of the voting this morning, that the Security Council is not ready to accept any new applications besides the one which it has already accepted, that is, the Union of Burma. It seems that the Security Council adheres ta the theory of accepting one application at a time. Today we have succeeded in accepting one applicant, the Union of Burma, and I do not think that further discussions would result in the admission of any other of these applicants. For this reason, I prefer that the matter should be postponed, and that the discussion should not be continued along the sa~e lines which are known to aU of us.

According to our rules, the position being as stated by the representative of Syria, we might postpone the discussion of the question to a certain day or indefinite1y, unless there are any objections. However, I have one doubt in my mind. Should we not thereby be accepting the position that because one application has not been accepted, the others should not be considered or accepted? It Jnight appear that because Italy has not been accepted, we are postponing the consideration of the other applications. Ml'. AUSTIN (United States of America): My recollection is that at a previous meeting of the Security Council when a similar situation arose, the President of the Security Council at that time asked a question which set a precedent for the Security Council, namely: "Has anyone changed the position that he formerly took at the last vote on this issue?" A record was thereby made that no change had occurred in the attitude of àny member of the Security Council and the matter was thereupon adjourned. .Président

l thank the representative of the United States for his very useful reminder of what was done before, and accordingly l shaH ask the representatives on the Security Council if any of them have changed their position from that which now stands on the record. No response was indicated.

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