S/11434] SC
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Vote Recorded Vote — S/PV.1791
Speeches following this vote (20)
The President
I now give the floor to members of the Council who have expressed the wish to explain their vote after the vote.
16. Mr EL HASSEN (Mauritania) (interpretation from French): The Security Council has just taken a historic decision recommending to the General Assembly the admission of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau as a Member of the Organization. This is a decision for which my Govemment and my peo…
Mr. Maina
Mr. President, allow me first of all to thank you for taking speedy steps to bring before this Council the application of Guinea-Bissau for full membership of the United Nations.
29. It is now about one year since the United Nations took the historic decision to recognize the independence of Guinea-Bissau. During that period the Republic of Guinea- Bissau has had observer status in the United Na…
Mr. Njine
My delegation would like first of
44. I say that this was natural. Here I am repeating the very familiar formula of General de Gaulle when he was speaking of the great subject under discussion here today. In his view, it was in the very nature of things that the unilateral will of civilization and the influx of new ideas and the new needs that accompanied it should culminate in a dialogue. It wa…
Mr. HUANG Hua
The people of Guinea-Bissau, led by the PAIGC, proclaimed independence and founded the Republic of Guinea-Bissau in September 1973 after protracted armed struggle which dealt heavy blows at the colonial rule of Portugal. The experience of the struggle of the people of Guinea-Bissau has shown that the hberation and independence of Guinea- Bissau were neither a “favour” bestowed by the Portuguese c…
Mr. Marpaung
It is with particular pleasure that my delegation has joined other members of the Council in voting in support of the draft resolution contained in document S/11437 recommending the admission ,of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau as a full-fledged Member of the United Nations. Being one of the initiators of the first Asian-African Conference in Bandung in 1955, which had sounded the clarion call for …
Mr. Tchernouchtchenko
The delegation of the Byelorussian SSR has taken great satisfaction in voting for the draft resolution recommending to the General Assembly that the Republic of Guinea-Bissau be admitted to membership in the United Nations.
73. The admission of Guinea-Bissau should be welcomed with added satisfaction as it will bring us appreciably closer to the goal of universal membership of the United Nations…
Mr. Schaufele
This is a moment of profound satisfaction for the United States. My Government warmly welcomes the agreement for the independence of Guinea-Bissau and strongly supports the admission of Guinea-Bissau to the United Nations.
107. The British Government today issued the following statement, which, with your permission, Mr. President, I would read:
“It is with great pleasure that we have learnt tha…
Mr. Sal.Azar
In explanation of our vote, my delegation would like to refer to the resolution just adopted containing the Security Council’s recommendation to the General Assembly that the Republic of Guinea-Bissau be admitted to membership in this Organization. My delegation wishes to place on record that it took great satisfaction in voting in favour of the decision taken by the Council.
113. In general, my…
Sir Laurence MCINTYRE
My delegation has been very glad to support the recommendation of the Committee on the Admission of New Members that the Council should recommend to the General Assembly that the Republic of Guinea-Bissau be admitted to membership of the United Nations. The Committee has carefully examined the application for membership that was submitted by the Chief Commissioner of the CounciI of State Commissi…
The President
The next speaker on my list for today’s meeting is the Chairman of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, also known as the Committee of 24. I invite the Chairman of that Committee, Ambassador Salim, to take the place reserved for him at the Council table and to make his stateme…
Mr. Salim
On behalf of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, I wish to express my sincere appreciation for the opportunity to address the Security Council on this historic occasion on which we have just witnessed the unanimous acceptance by the Council of the application by the Republic …
The President
A letter addressed to the President of the Security Council has
156. It is perhaps fitting for us today to pay a solemn tribute to those many gallant fighters of the colonial Territories who have sacrificed their lives for the cause of the freedom and liberty of their countries. Our particular thoughts go to our brother Amilcar Cabral, the former Secretary-General of PAIGC, a proud son of Africa…
Mr. Veiga Simao
Mr. President,cI should like first of all to congratulate you on your assuming the office of President of the Security Council for the month of August. I believe this is the tenth time you have been in this position, which shows how much of your life has been dedicated to the United Nations. By a fortunate coincidence, it was during this month that, following the reestablishment of diplomatic rel…
The President
I thank the representative of Portugal for his statement and for his kind words about the Soviet Union and its representative in the Security Council.
Mr. Hussein
I thank you, Mr. President and all the members of the Council, very much for giving me this opportunity to address the Council on behalf of the current Chairman of the Organization of African Unity, the President of the Supreme Revolutionary Council of the Somali Republic, Jaalle Mohammed Siad Barre.
187. Mr. President, first of all allow me to congratulate you on behalf of the Chairman of the O…
The President
I thank the representative of Somalia for his statement and for his kind words about the Soviet Union and its representative in the Security Council. I am also grateful to him for pointing out that the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples was adopted by the United Nations on the initiative of the Soviet Union.
208. The brilliant victory of the people of G…
The President
I thank the representative of Togo for his statement and for the kind words which he addressed to me.
213. The next speaker on my list is the representative of Algeria. I invite him to take a place at the Council table and to make his statement.
Mr. Taleb-Bendiab
Mr. President, first of all, as representative of Algeria and on behalf of the Group of Non-Aligned Countries in the United Nations, I should like to thank you and the other members of the Security Council for allowing me to take part in the work of the Council concerning the application of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau for membership in the United Nations. May I also say how pleased we are to se…
The President
I thank the representative of Algeria for the kind words about the Soviet Union.
223. I now invite the representative of Guinea to take a place at the Council table and to make a statement.
Mr. Maddy
Mr. President, as the Security Council gives favourable consideration to the request for admission to the United Nations of the independent State of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, allow me on behalf of my delegation to
225. The Security Council, the fundamental role of which is to preserve international peace and security througb respect for the inalienable rights of peoples and States, has toda…
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