S/PV.439 Security Council

The draft agenda is before the Council. Unless I hear' any objection or comment, I shall take it that it is approved. , Mr. TSARAPKIN (Union of Soviet So~ialist Republics) (translated from Russian) : The second item on the provisiomil agenda for todais meeting of the Security Council· is the report to the Council [5/1382] by the Committee on the Admission of New Members concerning the application of Nepal for membership in the United Nations, and the third item aeals with the applications for admission to membership in the United Nations of other States, which have been pending since January 1946. The question dealt with in item 3 was already , discussed by us in June and July, and we are about to proceed with the discussion of that same question. I think, therefore, that it might be more .appropriate to take it up as item 2, and make the 2. Allocution dn Pr~sident Le PRESIDENT (traduit de l'anglais):. Je suis sur que tous les autres representants au Conseil de securite voudront qu'avant d'aborder nos travaux jeremerde, en leur nom, le representant de l'Union des Republiques socialistes sovietiques de la maniere dont il a dirige nos debats, en quaIite de President du Conseil de securite, pendant le mois d'aout. La tache a ete, en fait, relativement legere, et j'espere que son successeur aura la meme bonne fortune. Je suis certain d'interpreter le sentiment de tous les representants en exprimant notre gratitude a. M. Tsarapkine pour rha~ bilete et le tacta\rec leequels il s'est acquitte de ses fonctions. M. TSARAPKINE (Union des Republiques socialistes sovietiques) Ctraduit du russe) : Je remercie le President des paroles aimables qu'il a yl:Ot;u:Jn;cees a mon endroit 3•. Adoption de l'ordre du jour . Le PRESIDENT (tradttii de J,.a,nglais) :. Le Conseil est en possession de r ordre du jour provi- .saire. S'iI n'y a ni objection ni observation, je le considererai comme adoptee M. TSARAPKINE (Union des Republiques socialistes sovietiques) (traduit du russe) : L'ordre du jour provisoirede la presente seance du Conseil de secutite comporte,comme point 2. l'examen du rapport [5/1382] adresse au Conseil par le Comited'admission de nouveaux Membres . air sujet de la, demande d'admission du Nepal a l'Organisation des Nations Unies, et, comme point 3, l'examen des: autres demandes d'admission a rOrganisation des Nations Unies, c'est-~­ dire des demandes qui ont ete deposees depUls le mois de janvier 1946. Corrmle on le sait, nous avons discute, aux mois de juin et de juillet, la question qui fait l'objet du point 3; nous aUons poursuivre maintenant l'examen de cette meme question. I1 me semb!erait done logique que ICe point deVienne_~POl::' I see no objec.tion to accepting the proposal just made by the representative of the Soviet Union, for the Council will ha:ve ~o take a definite decision on all these apphcatlOns; on those referred back by the General Assembly because it would be discourteous to the Assembly to do otherwise; on that of Nepal, because. it !S esse~­ tial to decide on that; and on those md1cated tU sub-paragraphs (b), (c), (d), (e) apd (f), because fresh applications have been received from the respective countries for admission to the United Nations. I should like to hear what the President has to say on the subject of item 3 (a) of the provisional agenda. The PRESIDENT; In reply to the representative of Argentina, I can confirm that he is correct in assuming that the draft resolutions [S/1331 to SI133?] which he submitted, together with the resolution submitted by the delegation or the USSR [S11340] will be discussed in connexion with item 3 (a) of the agel!da. ~ PRESIDENT <traduit de l'anglais) : En repon- <:it au representant de l'Argentine, je puis confirmer qu'il a raison de penser que les resolutions [S/1331d S11337] qu'il a soumises ainsi que celles qui ont ete presentees par la delegation de l'URSS [S/1340] seront discutees 10rs de l'examen de l'alinea a) du point 3 de l'ordre du jour. Le representant de I'Union sovietique a suggere precedemment d'intervertir 1'0rdre des points 2 et 3, en faisant valoir que la discussion du point 3 fera simplement suite aux debats qui ont deja. eu lieu a un certain nombre de seances anterieures, tandisqur; le point 2 n'a pas encore ete examine par le Conseil de ~ecurite. Cet argument parait etre raisonnable et, s'il n'y a pas d'objec-, tion, je proposerai au Conseil de decider d'inter-. vertir l'ordre des points 2 et 3. The suggestion made earlier by the representative of the Soviet Union was that we should reverse the order of items 2 and 3 on the ground that item 3 would open a discussion which would be only a sequel to one which took place at some of our earlier meetings, whereas item 2 has not, yet been discussed in the Security Council. That seems a reasonable argument, and unless I hear any objection, I propose that the COllncil should decide to reverse the order of items 2 and 3. General McNAUGHTON (Canada) ; It seems to the Canadian delegation that it would be better to leave the order as it stands. In support of that view I would point out that the application of Nepal for membership in the United Nations has never yet been discussed in this Council. The matter came befQre us ~some time ago [423rd meeting] and 'vas immediately referred to the Committee on the Admission of New Members, Le general McNAUGHTON (Canada) (traduit de l'anglais) : La delegation du Canada croit qu'il serait preferable de ne pas modifier l'ordre des points a examiner. A l'appui de cette maniere de voir, je tiens a faire observer que la demande d'admission du Nepal a l'Organisanon des Nations Unies n'a pas encore ete examinee par le Conseil de securite. La question a ete portee devant le Conseil il y a quelque temps [423eme seance], mais e11e a ete renvoyeei1l1mediatement au Comite d'admission des nouveaux Membres, ou elle aete traitee a fond au cours de deux seances. J'estime qu'il y a grand interet a ce que le Conseil prenne maintenant connaissance du 'rapport de ce Comite et qu'il ait la possibilite d'en faire etat. De plus, chacune des questions figurant au point 3 a deja ete entierement discutee auCoilseil de securite; le Conseil et le public de tous les pays du motide ont pu etu.dier toute la documentation qui s'y rapporte et en tirer.leuts conclusions. Je pense done qu'il s~rait tres sage et ~here it was dealt with exhaustively on two occa- SIons. I think it very important that the report of that Committee should come before the Security Council at this time, and that we should have an opportunity to take note of it. Furthermore, each of the questions under item ~ has been very comprehensively debated already In the Security Coancil, aud both the Council and world public opinion have had an opportunity to study the pertinent information and to draw conclusions therefrom. I think, therefore,. that it ....._ .................__~__~__o__....-........__~ This rule is quite clear, and that is why the third question on the agenda should be considered before the new question concerning the admission of Nepal; in other words, the proposal of the USSR representative is in conformity with the provisional rules of procedure. ThePREsID:ENT: If there are no other comments, I would say to the representative of the - Ukrainian SSR that it seems to me that we have strictly complied with rule 10, which states : "Any item of the agenda ofa meeting of the Security Council, consideration of which has not been completed at that meeting, shall, unless the Security Council otherwise decides, automatically be included in the agenda of the next meeting." We are proposing to irtc!nde the item·in today's agenda,. Rule 10 does not assign·any particular .priority to the question. It is for the Security Council, of course, to decide in what order these items should be taken. Unless any other representative has any observations to make, I therefore suggest that we v.:te upon the question at issue. The provisional agenda is before the Security Council. The representative of the Soviet Union has proposed an amendment to it, and I think it is my duty to put that amendment to the vote first. The amendment proposed by the USSR seeks to reverse the order of items·2 and 3 on the provisional agenda. Mr. TSARAPKIN (Union of Soviet ~ocialist Republics) (translated from Russian) : I should like to draw the Council's attention once again to the fact that the question which is now listed as item 3 on our agenda was discussed by the Council at its meetings of 16 June,- 21 June, 24 19ge, 11 July and also, I believe, towards the endof July. Thus we have already devoted five meetings to this question. ·The question is now once again on the agenda for today's meeting, but for some reason it has been relegated in the third place. There is absolutely no reason why.an entirely new question of a similar nature, not previously examined by the Security Council, should be put . first on the agenda, and that the consi&~ration of Le PRESIDENT (traduit de l'anglai!J): S'il n'y a pas d'autres observations, je dirai au representant de la RSS cl'Ukraine que nous nous sommes strictement conformes a l'article 10 qui dispose que: "Toute question figurant a l'ordre du jour d'une seance du Conseil de securite et dont l'examen n'est pas 'acheve au ~,ours de ladite seance est portee automatiquement a l'ordre du jour de la sean.ce suivante, a moins qu~ le Conseil de securite n'en decide autrement." Nous proposons d'inscrire cette question it I'ordre du jour de la presente seance. L'article 10 ne prescrit pasd'ordre de priorite.. C'est sans nul doute au Conseilde securite qu'il appa:.tient de determiner 1'0rdre dans leque1 it C()l1vient d'examiner les points figurant a l'ordre du jour. A moins qu'un autre representant n'ait des observations a formuler, je propose de mettre aux voix la question qui no?s divise. L'ordre du'jour provisoire est soumis au Conseil de securite. Etant donne que le r;.;presentant de l'Union sovietique a propose un amendement a l'ordre du jour, j'estime qu'ilest de mon devoir de meJ:tre d'abord cet amendement aux voix. L'amendement propose par l'URSS tend a intervertir les points 2 et 3 de l'ordre du jour provi- SOlre. M. TSARAPKINE (Union des .Republiqes 50- cialistes sovietiques) (traduit du russe) : Je'voUdrais, une £ois de plus, attirer l'attention du Con- . seil sur le fait que le Conseil de securite a deja, au cours de ses seances des 16 juin, 21 juin, 24 juip., 11 juillet, et aussi, me semble-t-il, dans, la troisieme decade de juillet, discute la questIOn qui figure a)'ordre du jour sous le point 3. Nous avons'do'uc deja consacre dnq seances a cette question. Aujourd'hui, celle-ci se trouve ?e nouveau a njrdre du jour de notreseance, matS, on ne sait pour quelle raison, ellea et~ deplacee et figure ma-intenant en troisieme lieu. Il n'y a aucune r~ison pour qu'une question analogue, entierement nouvelle, que nous n'avo~s pas ,encoreA d.isculee an Co":'eil de securite•• "'.:J.. placee en tete de l'ordre du Jour, alors que I exa- • I do not think that there is any need to vote on this question. It seems to me that the President can make a ruling that we should ccntinue to consider the que!'tion of the admission of the twelve .States whose applications are before us, starting with those made in 1946., That would be the normal procedure. In my opinion there is no need for a vote; the President himself has the power to decide the question. '

I do not think that this matter, is one on which it would be appropriate for the President to make a ruling. Rule 9 of the provisional rules of procedure says: "The first item of the provisional agenda for each meeting of the SeC).1rity Council shall be the adoption of the agenda." This implies that the Security Council has to take a decision on it. I repeat that the proposal before the Council is the adoption of the provisional agenda, to which an amendment has been proposed by the representative of the USSR to the effect that the order of items 2 and 3 should be reversed. I shall ask the Security Council to vote on that amendment.

I should like to make a few brief remarks in my capacity as representative of the UNITED KINGDOM. In the first place, I may say that 1 think it unnecessary for me to repeat here the views of my Government, which have already been put forward in the Committee on the Admission of New Members, and 1 shall not do so at length. I shall merely say that, in the view of my Government Nepal should be admitted to the United Nati~ns, and that my Government believes that if Nepal were admitted to tr.e United Nations it would make a valuable contribution to our labours. I shall make one or two comments on certain things that have been said here by the representatives of the USSR and the Ukrainian SSR. The report from the Committee on the Admission of New Members [S/1382l states: Je voudrais faire quelques remarques au sujet de certaines declarations des representants de I'URSS et de la RSS d'Ukraine. Void ce que nous lisons dans le rapport du Comite d'admission de nouveaux Membres: "Le representant de I'URSS a declare que rUnion sovietique n'etait pas opposee a l'admission du Nepal au sein de l'Organisation des Nations Dnies, mais qU'eIle ne pouvait voter en faveur de cette admission, car il serait injuste d'admettre ce pays alors que 1'0n refuse systematiquement d'admettre comme Membres des Nations Unies l'Albanie, la Bulgarie. la Roumanie, la Hongrie et la Republique populaire de Mongolie. Le reprtsentant de l'Ukraine a appuye l'opinion du representant de l'URSSS!' Ce1a signifie que ces deux Gouvernements n'accepteront l'admission d'un candidat que si tous les autres Etats qui ont presente leur candidature sont egalement admis. C'est la politique du tout ou rien. Cette politique, je l'ai dejaentendu expc,er il y a un an environ par le representant de l'Union sovietique et eUe peut parfaitement se comprendre, mais on peut aussi .la desapprouver. M:m Gouvernement et ma delegation desapprouvent cette politique, et il apparait que la Cour internationale de Justice la desapprouve egalement; mais, je le repete, on peut comprendre cette politique. "The representative of the USSR stated that the Soviet Union was not against the acceptance of Nepal into the United Nations, but could not vote for admission of Nepal because it would be unjust to admit that country while Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and the Mongolian People's Republic were systematically refused admission... The representative of the Ukrainian SSR supported this view of the representative of the USSR." ' , That means that these two Governments will admit one candidate only if all the other candidates which have applied for admittance are likewise to be admitted. That is a policy of all or none. Just about a year ago I heard that policy enuncia' 1 by the representative of the Soviet Union. it is a perfectly understandable policy, although one may disagree with it. My delegation and my Gov~rnment do disagree with it, and it appears that the International Court of Justice also disagrees with it.1 Still, as I say, it is understandable. What I do not understand is how, within a few weeks after enunciating that policy, we find the Toutefois, je ne comprends pas que le representant de l'URSS. quelques semaines apres qu'il eut expose cette politique, ait vote en favenr de l'admission d'IsraeI [414eme seance], sans poser alors de condition relative aux autres candidatures. Le representant de la RSS d'Ukraine a la hantise toute particuliere de ce qu'il appelle le "bloc anglo-americain". association chimerique qui pr<"tiquerait; selon lui, le favoritisme et la discrimination. Je voudrais signaler que, parmi les Etats candidats contre lesquels ce "bloc angloamericain" exercerait, dit-on, une discrimination, r~presentative ot the USSR voting for the admis- SlO~ of Israel J~14th meeting] without stipulatmg any condItIons about the other applicants. The representative of the Ukrainian SSR is particula~ly haunted by what he calls "the Anglo- Amencan bloc", and the favouritism and the discrimination exercised by that chimerical body. I w~:lUld point out that a number of the applicants agamst whom this "Anglo-American bloc" is alleged to hav~ discriminated obtained only· two v~tes.• That Was not the fault of the Gnited Kingaom; so far as I know it was not the fault of the Unit~d .Stat~s; but it certainly was not the fault of thIS Imaglllary "Anglo-American bloc." ~rtains n'ont obtenu que deux voix favorables. Ce n'est pas la faute du Royaume-Uni. ce n'est pas non plUS, me semble-t-il, la faute des Etats- Unis, et ce n'est certainement pas la faute de cc e..~ercised in the past by another delegation. Israel was admitted to the United Natiotl'3, but if we had chosen to exercise our right, Israel would not be to this day a Member of the United Nations. Therefore, I do not think that my Government can be accused of any undue discrimination, nor do I think that the proceedings on the occasion to which I am referring provide very strong proof of the existence of "the Anglo- American bloc." Mr. AUSTIN (United States of America) : My Government has found the qualifications of Nepal for membership in the United Nations satisfactory. Its sovereign and independent status, its relations with other States, including a number of Members of the United Nations, its undertaking to accept without reservation the obliga-:- tions of the Charter, and its effective control of its internal affairs and external relations lead to the inevitable concl11sion that Nepal is a Sta.te, that it is sovereign, that it is peace-loving, that it accepts the obligations of the Charter and is able and willing to carry out those obligations. The- . United States therefore supports the application of Nepal and hopes that the Security Council will see its way clear to making a favourable recommendation on that application to the forthcoming session of the Gener~l Assembly. I note that the representative of the Soviet Je remarque que le representant de l'Union Union, in the Committee on the Admission of sovietique .a declare au Comite d'admission de New Members and here again in the Security nouveaux Membres et au Conseil de securite que Council, has declared that his delegation is not sa delegation n'est pas opposee a l'admission du opposed to the acceptance of Nepal into the.United Nepal au se1n de l'Organisation. Le representant Nations. The representative of the Ukrainian de la RSS d'Ukraine a indique qu'il etait ·du SSR has indicated that he shares that view. Tile meme avis. Les neuf autres membres du· Comite other nine Members on the Committee on the d'admission de nouveaux Membres ont vote en Admission of New Members voted for a favourfaveur de la recommandation de cette candidature able recommendation to the General Assembly. a. l'Assemblee generale. Lorsque les membres du Normally and logically, when there is unanimous ConseiI de securite sont unanimement d'accord agreement among the members of the Security sur le fait· qu'un Etat possede les titres necessai- Council that a country is qualified for admission res pour devenir· Membre de l'Organisation des to the United Nations, one would expect a una- Nations Unies, on doit, normalement et logiquenimous vote recommending admission. However, ment, s'attimdre a ce que son admission soit rethe representative of the Soviet Union goes on commandee par un vote unanime. Or, le repreto say, both in the Committee OD the Admission sentant de I'Union sovietique est venu declarer, of New Members and here in the Security tant an Comite el'admission de nouveaux Membres Counci4 that his delegation cannot vote for the qu'au Conseil de securite, que sa delegation ne admission of Nepal so long as some other nations peut pas voter en faveur de l'admission du Ne~a! are not admitted. He also said, in both .discustant que certains autres pays n'auront pas ete sions of this matter, that it would be unjust to admis. Et le meme representant a ajoute,.aucours . M. AUSTIN (Etats-Unis d'Amerique) (traduit de ['anglais): Mon Gouvernement estime que le Nepal remplit les conditions requises pour devenil' Membre des Nations Unies. Le Nepal est souverain et independant; it entretient des relations avec d'autres Etats, notamment avec cer~ tains Etats Membres de I'Organisation des Nations Unies; it s'engage a accepter sans reserve les obligations enoncees par la Charte; H. a pleine autorite en ce qui concerne les affaires interieures et les relations exterieures. On doit donc en conelure que le Nepal est un Etat, un Etat souverain, un Etat pacifique, qui accepte les obligations de la Chatte, qui est capable de les remplir et dispuse a le faire. Les Etats-Unis appuient donc la candidature du Nepal et esperent que le Conseil de securite prendra la decision d'adresser, au sujet de cette candidature, une recommandation favorable a. l'Assemblee generale qui se reUnil'a prochainement. We have heard repeated here in the Security Council charges, made by both the USSR and the Ukrainian SSR, of discrimination by the United States and the United Kingdom against some States and of favouritism on their part toward other States. On the basis of the conditions set forth in the Charter, I think there is no ground at all for such a claim. The Charter leaves it to the judgment of the Organization to decide whether or not a country is able and willing to carry out the obligations contained in the Charter, but says nothing about considering these other whimsical matters·that have been suggested here today such as saying that, if twelve other applicants should be admitted, then "Yes, we would vote for this particular applicant, because we have no objection to this particular applicant, except possibly one, namely, that it is not pleasant for us to vote for any country that the United States favours." In the case of the countries 'named by the representative of the Soviet Union, both in the Committee on the Admission of New Members and here in the Security Council, we find that at no time did any of those applicants receive the seven votes necessary for approval by the Security Council. The General Assembly consistently held all five to be not qualified for admission. I was recently informed that the official newspaper of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union charged on 5 July last that the veto power is being used by "the Anglo-American bloc" in discriminating against what the Soviet Union considers truly democratic c0untries. Today, we have heard the same charge made by the representative of the Soviet Union agah<;t the United States and the United I0.ngdom. Cet article de la Pravda impose au lecteur l'idee que la d6tlaration que j'ai faite le 21 juin 1949 [428/hne seance] - a savoir, que les Etats-Unis ne voteraient pas au Conseil de securite pour . l'admission de l'Albanie, de la Bulgarie, de la Hongrie, de la Republique populaire de Mongolie et de la Rournanie - a pour effet "d'interdire a. ces Etats toute possibilite d'admission", du fait que les "Etats-Unis d'Amerique sont un membre permanent" du Conseil de securite. La Pravda oubIie de dire qu'a la merne date j'ai donne l'assurance au Conseil de securite que les Etats-Unis n'uf >raient jamais de leur droit de veto pour interdir.... "admission d'un Etat quelconque. Bien entendu, la Pravda ne pouvait pas reproduire cette partie de ma declaration, car le journal aurait alors demontre que sa propre argumentation etait entierement fausse. The reader of that article in Pravda is enjoined to consider the statement which I made on 21 'June 1949 [428th meeting], that the United States would not vote, in the Security Council, for the admission of Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, the Mongolian People's Republic and Romania as "blocking the very possibility of their admission", in vie'w of the fact that "the United States of America is a permanent member" of the Security Council. My assurance, made on the' same occ~sion here in the Security Council, that the U11lted States would never use its veto to block admission of any State, was omitted from the !,ravda article. Of course, it could not have been mcluded because it would have shown that the Pravda statement was totally false. . I am sorry to take up the Security Council's time, but I think it is necessary, in view of this and other attempts to misrepresent the position of t~e Un~t~d States,. to reiterate my Government s posltlon on thlS matter in order that it may be CJ,uite clear to everyone. This has been repeated before and probably will be repeated in the future. En ce qui concerne les pays que le representant de I'Union sovietique a cites, tant devant le Comite d'admission de nouveaux Membres que devant le Conseil, nousconstatons que j'amais aucun d'entre eux n'a obtenu les sept voix qui sont exigees pour l'approbation d'une candidature par le Conseil de securite. L'Assemblee generale ne s'est jamais departie de son jugement, a savoir que· ces cinq Etats ne remplissent pas les conditions requises pour etre admis. J'ai appris dernierement que le journal offidel du parti communiste de I'Union sovietique a pretendu, le 5 juiIIet dernier, que le "bloc anglo-americain" avait use du veto pourpratiquer une discrimination contre des pays que l'Union sovietique considere comme de veritables democraties. Cette meme accusation, le representant de I'Union sovietique l'a reprise aujourd'hui contre les Etats- Unis et le Royaume-Uni. Je ne voudrais pas abuser du temps du C-onseil, mais je crois qu'il est indispensable, puisque l'on cherche une fois de plus a. presenter de fac;on erronee la position des Etats-Unis, cl'exposer a. nouveau cette position afinqu'elle aparaisse lC1airement a. taus. Cet expose a deja ete fait plusieurs fois, et il sera pr-obablement repete. Let me say once again that my Government would be prepared to re-consider its position if it should appear that.further developments cast new light on the qualifications for membership under Article 4 (of Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary," the Mongolian People's Republic and Romania, or if, as a result of changes in the positions of any members of the Security' Council, there appeared to be any likelihood of the Council taking affirmative action on these applications. The United States would be gratified if the United Nations would admit Nepal to its membership and will, of course, support the Chinese draft resolution. Mr. ARCE (Argentina) (translated from Spanish) : This. is the second or third time today that discrimination has been mentioned in connexion with the admission of new Members. It is obvious that discrimination may lead to the theory of universality: in order to do away with discrimination, it would be necessary to admit all States that apply for membership in the United Nations. The idea of universality was opposed when the Charter was ratified in San Francisco; it was proposed by some Latin-American countries and was rejected by the appropriate Committee. I am pleased to see, however, that the Soviet Union and nbweven the United States w()uld be in favour of it, perhaps because that thesis of universality, that political path, might lead us out of the impasse in which we. find ourselves. That impasse is somewhat complicated. ~ispose, ~ le faire". Les Etats,:Unis, aPl'eS ttne etude seneuse, ont conc1u que, dans certains cas l'Etat candidat remplissait les conditions requise~ et que, dans d'autres .cas, l'Etat candidat ne rem. plissait pas ces conditions; les Etats-Unis ont don~ vote sur chacune des candidatures en les en. visageant separement. Toutefois, les Etats-Unis acceptent, en ce qui concerne les Membres de l'Organisation des Nations Unies, le principe de l'universalite. J'ai declare, le 21 juin, que les Etats- Unis sont disposes a cooperer a l'appl,ication de ce principe, en renonl$ant, dans certains cas c'est. a-dire lorsqu.e l'Etat cc.ndidat est appuye par un nombre suf£lsant de Membres de l'Organisation des Nations Unies, a user d'un privilege qui leur permettrait d'empecher le Conseil de securite de se prononcer en faveur de la candidature dont il s'agit. Les Etats-Unis jugent que, si une demande d'admission a fait l'objet d'un vote favorable soit de la part de l'Assemblee generale, soit de la'part de sept membres du Conseil de securite, il y a lieu d'estimer que le candidat est appuye par un nombre suffisant d'Etats Membres, et mon Gouvernement s'est engage a renoncer, en pareil 'cas, a son privilege de vote. Ainsi, lorsqu'on accUse constamment les Etats-Unis d'empecher l'admiss~onde certains Etats, cette accusation n'est nullement fondee. Permettez-moi de repeter que mon Gouvernemeat serait dispose a reviser la position qu'il a priSe si les ev':nements permettaient d'envisager sous un jour nouveau les titres que l'Albanie, la Bulgarie, la Hongrie, la Republique populaire de Mongolie et la Roumanie peuvent avoir, aux tel'- mes 'Je l'Artide 4, pour devenir Membres de l'Organisation des Nations Unies, 011 encore, si certains. membres du· ConsE'1il modifiaient lenr propre position de fa<;on telle, que l'acceptation desdites ,candidatures par le Conseil apparaisse comme .probable. Les Etats-Unis seraient heureux de voir 1'01'- ganisation des Nations Unies admettre le Nepal parmi ses Membres, et ils appuieront, bien entendu, le projet de resolution presente par la Chine. . . M. ARcE (Argentine) (tradttit de l'espagnol) : A deux ou trois reprises, nous avons entendu parler aujourd'hui de discrimination a propos de l'admission de nouveaux Membres. 11 est evident que cette discrimination conduirait a la these de l'universalite: pOllr qu'il n'y ait pas de discrimination, il faudrait que tous les Etats candidats soient admis cl l'Organisation des Nations Ul;lies. Cette these de l'universalite a ete combattue lors de la ratification de la' Charte a San-Francisco; e1le avait ete pI:oposee par quelques pays de l'Amerique la-tine, mais fut rejetee par le comite competent. Je constate cependant, avec une veritable satisfaction" que l'Union sovietique, de meme que les Etats-Unis, semblent soutenir cette these de l'universalite et penser que cette politique pourrait peut-etre nous permettre de sortir de l'impas~ se dans laquelle sous nous trouvons. Cette impasse presente un caractere complexe. Je tiens cependant a attirer l'attention des membres du Conseil sur la' voie dans laquelle nous nous trouvons engages. Deja quatorze pays attendent, au seuil de l'Organisation des Nations Unies, qu'on leur dise si, oui ou non, leur candidature sera acceptee. I1 peut nous parvenir - et cela serait a souhaiter - huit, ou peut-etredix nouvelles demandes d'admission; il arrivera un moment ou vingt-quatre pays, presque. la moitie du nombre actuel des Etats Membres de I'Organisation, attendront aux portes de cette demiere pour savoir si leurs demandes vont etre acceptees ou non; en effet, apres ce que nous avons entendu aujourd'hui, il est evident que leus demandes seront "bloquees". Cela prouve bien que le Conseil de securite a fait jusqu'a present fausse route en rejetant des demandes qui reunissent sept votes favorables ou davantage. Si cela continue, nous courrons le risque de voir l'Article 4 de la Charte supprime sur l'initiative du Conseil de securite; en efiet, si tottLe nouvelle demande d'admission doit etre repoussee,sous pretexte que 1'on defend maintenant le principe de l'universalite et qu'en vertu de ce principe certains des membres .du Conseil s'appliquent a rejeter toutes les demandes, un tel procede supprimerait l'Article 4 de la Charte, et, en outre, entraverait d'une maniere violente et grave l'exercice des attributions que la Charte . a conferees a l'Assemblee generale. Tout cela demontre qu'iln'y a qu'une seule voie pour sortir de l'impasse. On declare souvent ici que le bloC',' anglo-americain empeche l'acces de l'Organisation; mais il est un autre bloc -le bloc anglo-sovieto-americain, et , si 1'0n veut, le bloc franco-chinois - qui· bane aux nouveaux postulants l'entree de l'Organisationdes Nations Unies; il n'y a qu'une seule maniere de mettre un peu d'ordre dans cetteaffaire, c'est de suppritner ce bloc. La situation dans laquelle nous pourrons nous trouver me parait assez semblable a celle qui se produit lorsque, sur une route a grande, circulation, une voiture se met en travers de la IChaussee: dix voitures s'arretent, puis quinze, puis vingt, et 1'0n finit parvoir des files de dnquante, de cent voitures immobilisees. Heureusement, la police fait enlever la voiture en panne, ce qui permet'a la circulation de reprendre. Je ne sais. qui aSSUl:nera, en 1'0ccurrence, les fonctions de la police, mais il me semble que ce devrait etre l'AssembIee generale, laquelle, recourant a· son I would like, however, to point out to the members of the Council the situation in which ,ve find ourselves. Already we 'have fourteen countries waiting for an answer whether or not they are to be admitted to the Organization. Eight, or let us say ten, more applications may come - and it is to be hoped that they will come - and then we shall have twenty-four countries, almost half the present number of States in the organization, waiting at its gates to know whether or not their applications are to be accepted; for if we abide by what we have heard today they will of course be blocked. This shows the mistaken course the Security Council has been following hitherto in blocking applications which have seven or even more affirmative votes. If this continues, we run the risk of Article 4 of the Charter's being suppressed by the action of the Security Council, fQr if all new applications for admission are to be rejected because the idea of universality is now being defended and because on account of that some members of the Council are going to block all applications,· not only will Article 4 of the Charter have been suppressed but also the exercise of the functions which the Charter confers on the General Assembly will have been seriously obstructed. All this shows that there is only one way out of the impasse. It is frequently stated that the Anglo-American bloc hinders the admission of new Members, but.there is another bloc the An~lo-Soviet-American and, if you like, Fr~nco­ Ch11lese bloc, which is obstructing the entry of new nations that wish to become Members of the United Nations. The only way of bringing some order into this question is to suppress that bl?c. A good simile occurs to me: the same thing n:1ght happen to us as happens in one of the hIghways when a car lies across the road. First ten cars are stopped, then fifteen then twenty and lines of fifty or a hundred'cars are held up. Fortunately the polke have the broken-down car removed and then the traffic proceeds. I do ~ot know who the police will be in this case, but It seems to me that it should be· the General Ass~mbly, whi~h some day· will resume its functions and wIll remove this bloc of the five per- . ent Members. of the Security Council that A sm.lll stick of dynamite should be placed under this powerful bloc which is obstructing the road, so that traffic towards the United Nations can continue speedily and this organization can carry out the duties which were imposed on it by the Charter and which were the wishes of the members of the Conference of San Francisco. I personally feel, alas, that the spirit of San Francisco has been weakened by the nationalistic policy of a few great countries, and it is for that reason that in the name of the small countries I remind members of the Council from time to time of the way out of the impasse. I shall vote in favour of the admission of Nepal, but with reservations on some of the terms used by the representative of China, be~ cause the Security Council has not received any application for admission from the State of Nepal - it was the United Nations which received it - nor has the Security Council anything to decide in this connexion; it has only to make a positive or negative recommendation on the admission of Nepal.

If no other member wishes to speak, I shall now put to the vote the draft· resolution submitted by the representative of China [S/138S]. 1;1, favour: Argentina, Canada, China, Cuba, Egypt, France, Norway, United Kingdom, United States of America. Against: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The resttlt of the vote was 9 in fav'our to 2 against.

The report of our proceeding!: in connexion with this question will be transmitted to the General Assembly in the usual manner. It is perhaps rather late to begin the discUl3sion of the remaining items on our agenda, and unless I hear any proposal to the contrary, I propose to adjourn the meeting. There is, however, one point to settle .rst, namely the date of our n~xt meeting. In _w of the fact that we have not got through as mm.h as we had hoped to do today, there will be some congestion of the Security Council's agenda, and I think we ought to tt"J and get through as much a~ we possibly can before the General Assembly convenes, because there is a certain number of other items which will give rise to discussion. I am afraid there I1 faut placer une petite cartouche de dynamite sous ce bloc si puissant qui obstrue le chemin afin que la circulation vers l'Organisation de~ Nations Unies puisse s'effectuer sans encombre et que cette Organisation s'acquitte des devoirs que lui impose la Charte, selon la voloute des membres de la Conference de San-Francisco. Malheureusement, je suis personnellement cl'avis que l'esprit de San-Francisco s'est bien a££aibli, du fait de la politique nationaliste pratiquee par certains grands pays; c'est pourquoi, parlant au nom des petits pays, je tiens a. rappeler de temps en temps aux membres du Conseil comment iI serait possible de sortir de l'impasse. Je voterai en faveur de l'admission du Nepal, mais en faisant des reserves a. l'egard de certains des termes employes par le representant de la Chine, car, d'une part, le Conseil de securite n'a re<;u aucune demande d'admission de la part d,; l'Etat du Nepal ~ c'est, en effet, l'Organisation des Nations Unies qui a rec;u cette demande - et, d'autre part, le Conseil de securite n'a aucune decision a. prendre a. ce sujet, sinon celle de foro. muler une recommandation, favorable ou defavorable, a. propos de l'admission du Nepal. Le PRESIDENT Ctraduit de l'anglais) : Personne ne demandant plus la parole, je mets aux voix le projet de resolution soumis par le representant de la Chine [S/1385]. Votent pour: Argentine, Canada, Chine, Cuba, Egypte,France, Norvege, Royaume-Uni, Etats- Unis d'Amerique. Vote1~t contre: Republique socialiste sovietique d'Ukraine, Union des Republiques socialistes sovietiques. . Il y a 9 voiz pour et 2' voiz contre. 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