My delegation has learned with indignation of these new acts of violence which have just been brought to the attention of the Council. Once again we express our earnest concern-as we have already done to the Council on several occasions-that the human rights of all the inhabitants of the Congo shoul…
Mr. President, your interpretation of the rules of procedure has be;;:on challenged. 1should 11ke ta say that 1 and my delegation agree with your interpretation. In the present case, as Cuba is not a member of the Council, another State, which is a member of the Couneil, bas submitted Cubais draft r…
Between 15 and 26 November 1960. during the fifteenth session of the General Assembly. the FirstCommittee .held a leilgthy debate on the subject of Mauritania. Y SUbsequently, at the 91lth meeting on 3-4 December, the Security Council for the first time examined the application of the Islamic Republ…
In accordance with your recommendation, Mr. Presi- dent, l should like to state my ctelegation's views on both of the candidatures before us.
43. As regards Mauritania, l shall be very brief, since France, together with Liberia, is a co-sponsor draft resolution before the Council and the
38. Les E…
1 should just like to say a few words concerning a com- ment made a little while ago by the representative of the Soviet Union. He said that the positiontaken by the Western Powers on the adoption of the agenda will show whether those Powers are for or against a dis- criminatory poUcy with respect t…
The French delegation regrets the proposaI made by the representative of Ceylon. Not that it questions the considerations which prompted our colleague, whichit fully appreciates, and not that it has the slightest hesitation with respect to the admission of Sierra Leone-it wishes to state here andnow…
Our colleague from the United Kingdom has given us an account of the circumstances in which the State of Leone attained independence.
23. M. ZORINE (Union des Républiques socialistes soviétiques) [traduit du russe]: La demande d'admis- sion à l'ONU d'un autre jeune Etatd'Afrique, le Sierra Leone, m…
1 should like to give the Council sorne particulars on the points raised by the representative of Tunisia in the statement he made earlier this afternoon and in the statement he has just made.
198. First of aH, 1 should like to deny once more, absolutely categorically, that the French authorities o…
l merely wanted ta say that l do not intend to oppose the inclusion in the agenda of the question raised by the Tunisian Government, notwithstanding the fact that the complaint of the Government of Tunisia against France, together with the commuiùcation attached ta it, present what has occurred in a…
l should like briefly to explain why my delegation abstained in the vote on the text proposedby the dele- gations of the United Kingdom and the United states of America. This text is in line with the preoccupations of my Government. My Government has always re- quested a cease-fire and the restorati…
l have asked for the floor merely in order to transmit the following information to the Conncil:
3. In accordance with the decision taken this morning by the Council. AdmiraI Amman. who is in command of the Bizerta base. immediately received instructions to contact the Tunisian authorities at once.…
1 shaH be extremely brief because, after the state- ments which we have heard from the two parties con- cerned and from the representative of the United Kingdom, the question under discussion seems ta me to be perfectly clear.
17. Pursuant ta the request addressed ta you, Mr. President, on 1 July b…
At a time when the tension prevailing in so many countries of the world gives us daily cause for con- cern, when by turns the situation in some part of Asia, Africa, America· or Europe, with its potential complications, moves into the limelight of current world events, and particularly when this Cou…
The Council is aware oftheattitudeofreserve adopted by my delegation since the beginning of the Congo crisis and of how we have accordingly voted. French public opinion reacted with feeling and indignation at the news of the disappearance of Mr. Lumumba and his companions and, more recently, ofsix o…
1 in my turn should like to tell our new United States colleague, Mr. Adlai Stevenson, how pleased we are ta have him among us.
9. In appointfng so outstan,Ung a personality as its permanent representative in the Security Council, the United States Government h~s done our delegations, and our Organ…
The brief remarks I have to make will only reiterate what has been said so rightly and eloquently by our colleague, the representative of Argentina. I should merely like to say that my delegation is not opposed in principle to this C01.U1cil's debating the admission to the United Nations of Outer Mo…
I shall venture to say a few words, since it was my delegation which requested the President of the Security Council to convene the Council today to examine the application for admIssion of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, submitted in the telegram dated 28 November 1960 from th~ Prime Minister o…
It is with great satisfaction that the Frenchdelegation joins the other members of the COl.Ulcilinwelcoming a new State, the Federation of Nigeria, whose independ- ence was ceremonially proclaimed on 1 October. The representatives of more than sixty nations, including France, attended the ceremonies…
The letter dated 5 September 1960 which was sent to the President of the Security Council by the First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Union of Soviet Socia- list Republics, and which has led to our meeting, requests that we consider the decision taken on 20 August 1960 by the Organization of America…
I simply wish to thank you, Mr. President, for your very generous words of praise. Comingfromyou, they have particularly touched me. 3. As regards the Presidency for this month, I think that we can all of us be quite easy in our minds. Almost immediately after your arrival at the United Nations last…
