Ml'. Presi- dent, you have convened this meeting in accordanee with rule 3 of our provisional roles of proqedure to examine the situation which has been brought ta this Council's attention by Kuwait.
15. The letter from the State Secretary of Kuwait reads as follows:
"1 am instructed by His Highne…
Once again the Soviet Union has seen fit to veto measures which received the wide support of the Security Council. l do not know how many vetoes this now makes in the whole and sarry course of the Soviet Union delegation's performance at meetings of this Council since the Or- ganization was founded.…
Even though 1 must thankftùly decline the proposal you have made, Ml'. President, 1 shotùd like to thank you for your very generous remarks. 1 shotùd, Imustconfess,have liked to claim the credit for myself, for 1think one does deserve some consolation for the ardours of presiding over this Council, …
1 wish merely to saythatlamveryhappythat there will be no oonsecutive interpretation into English on this occa- sion, 1t being Wlderstood that this does not constitute a precedent.
107, Ml'. SEYDOUX (France) (translated from French): 1 should like to make the same remark on be- bclf of the French d…
The repre- sentative of France has just expressed exactly what 1 wished to say. In the view of my delegation, thG interpretation which you have placed upon the rules of procedure is entirely correct. If it is the view of. this Council and of you, Mr. President, thatthe repre- sentative of Cuba shoul…
Ml'. Presi- dent, mindful of the nat-olre of our last meeting in titis Council, perhaps 1 should reassure you that 1 am not speaking in arder ta answer a point of order. In fact, the only question of arder at issue ju~t now is that happy circumstance of the alphabet which places the United States in…
At the end of last year this Council considered the application of Mauritania, then newly born as an independent state, for membership in the United Nations. l was able on to express my country's pleasure at seen Mauritaniabecome, fil'st, a self-governing the French Community, and then the in-
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My delega- tion, after careful consideration, will vote in support of the admission of Outer Mongolia to the United Nations.
49. In response to the request made by you, M:i'. President and in order that there should be no doubt about my Government' s attitude to the items on the present agenda, l s…
Ishouldlike to support the suggestion that has been made by the representative of Ceylonthat we should accord priority to sub-item (Q) of item 2 of our agenda, the applicàtion for membership from Sierra Leone.
15. My delegation believes that this application is unlikely to give rise to any controve…
My dele- gation has just seen, in the French language, the draft resolution submitted by the representatives ofCeylon, Liberia and the United Arab Republic. My delegation has had no opportunity of considering this draft, and we should certainly not find it convenient to vote on it tonight; we certai…
l was about to speak at the last meeting in order to introduce the resolution sponsored by the United States and my own delegation [S/4879). Before l could do so, however, the 8ecretary~Generalmade his helpful proposaI which has resulted in the wise initiative of the representa- tive of Liberia in p…
Mr. Presi- dent, 1 have no objection at aU to your suggestion that we should meet tomorrow afternoon, but I would like to inquire whether it would be better not to meet ta- morrow afternoon but tomorrow morning.
1 will be very short, Mr. President. The repl'esentative of Ghana has just qUQted sorne remarks, the relevance of which" to our present debate 1 am bound to say escaped me, to the effect that the distinguished author of those remarks in sorne way regarded Portugal as being a colony of the United Kin…
1 am grate- fut to the President for allowing me to speak at this juncture. 1 should like to make a few comments, on hehali of the Government ofthe United Kingdom, on the decision which the Council has just taken.
11. We have adopted as our agenda the item referring to the letter dated 20 February …
The repre- sentative of the Soviet Union asked for this meeting to consider what he claims to be fresh acts of Bel- gian aggression against the Congo and flagrant viola- tions of the statua of a Trust Territory. He repeated those allegationa in very strong terms in his speech yesterday.
22. These a…
Now that the Soviet delegation has made it clear to us how its vote is to be cast I feel bound, on behalf of my own delegation, to point out that the effect of this negative vote will be to deprive, for the ·moment, free and independent Mauritania and its free and independent people of their right t…
Earlier tlns year the Security Cotutcil recommended to the C.eneral Assembly tlle admission to membership of tlle United Nations of a number of African States winch had been guided to nationhood lmder French adminis- tration. That recommendation was duly accepted and we have already seen in tlle deb…
I should 102. Sir Patrick DEAN (Royaume-Uni) [traduit de like to make a very short statement in explanation of Panglais]: J'aimerais intervenir tr~sbri~vementpour the vote which my delegation has just cast. I cast that expliquer le vote de ma d~16gation. Si j'ai vot6 contre vote against the inclusio…
