S/1670&Burkina SC
| Draft symbol | S/1670&Burkina |
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Russia
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United States
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United Kingdom
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China
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France
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Vote Recorded Vote — S/PV.2551
Speeches following this vote (9)
Mr. Schifter
My country’s deep commitment to equal rights for all, irrespective of race, is firmly anchored in law, in our dayto-day practices and in our people’s basic views of society and government. So is our adherence to the principle of universal franchise.
13 1. It follows naturally that we have on repeated occasions in the United Nations most emphatically expressed our strong opposition to all forms o…
Mr. Margetson
May I first of all join the other speakers in this debate in congratulating you, Sir, most warmly on your assumption of the presidency of the Council.
149. May I also join in thanking the representative of the United States, Mrs. Jeane Kirkpatrick, for her distinguished presidency of the Council during the month of July.
150. My Government shares the desire of the sponsors of the draft resoluti…
The President
I call on the representative of the United States, who wishes to speak in exercise of his right of reply.
Mr. Schifter
Our decision not to respond to the remarks of the Soviet Union was one that had been thought through. It was our intention to deal with the very profound human problem that is before us. As we have indicated, we are deeply concerned about the lives of people in southern Africa, men, women and children; not, as we said, an abstract concept, but people of flesh and blood.
154. For these reasons my…
The President
I call on the representative of the United Kingdom, who wishes to speak in exercise of his right of reply.
Mr. Margetson
I am afraid that I was unable to hear everything that was interpreted in my ear-piece during the right of reply of the representative of the Soviet Union because he was speaking so extremely loudly. Nevertheless, I did hear that he referred to my country as being the “younger brother” of the United States. I can only suppose that he has, yet once more, got his history wrong. I need say no more.
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Mr. Sahnoun
After the Security Council’s adoption of a resolution strongly rejecting the new constitution proposed by the Pretoria regime and declaring it null and void, along with the elections scheduled for the end of August, I wish to say on behalf of the Group of African States that we are very pleased indeed. We consider that the Council has now, like the General Assembly, affirmed that the ideology of …
The President
The Council has thus conduded the present stage of its consideration of the item on the agenda.
The meeting rose at 6.20 p.m.
NOTE
’ OfJicial Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 1 (A/38/1), p. 3.
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