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The Department then cited 13 precedents in which either the Soviet
Union or other permanent Council members had abstained from voting
on other actions in the past. The statement continued: "Furthermore
Article 28 of the Charter provides that the Security Council shall
be so organized as to be able to function continuously. This
injunction is defeated if the absence of a representative of a
permanent member is construed to have the effect of preventing all
substantive action by the Council. No one of the ten members of the
Council participating in the meetings of June 25 and June 27 raised
any question regarding the legality of the action---not even the
member who dissented on June 27." As for the Soviet claim on the
TRUHAN
Chinese vote, the statement noted that "no affirmative action has
been taken which, by any stretch of the imagination, could give
INATIONAL SERVICE" AND
force to the contention of the USSR that a representative of the
is
Peiping regime should be regarded as the representative of China on
the Security Council.
US accused of
On July 2nd North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Hen Nen issued a
imperialism
lengthy declaration accusing the US of imperialism, of having
started the Korean conflict, and of having dictated policies to
the UN. On July 4th Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Gromyko issued
an even lengthier statement along similar lines. He said:
"When it became clear that the terrorist regime of Syngman Rhee,
which has never enjoyed the support of the Korean people, would fall,
the Government of the US passed openly to intervention in Korea
"The Government of the US is attempting to justify the intervention
against Korea by contending that the intervention was allegedly S
started on the directive of the Security Council (but) it is known
that the US began to intervene with arms in Korea before the session
of the Security Council would be called on Júne 27, without considering
what the decision of the Security Council would be The facts
prove
that the resolution which the US Government is using as a cover for
its armed intervention in Korea was illegally put through the
Security Council, while the Charter of the organization of the UN
has been grossly infringed.
DGA replies
On July 5th DGA issued the following statement in reply: "In regard
to the Korean hostilities, four simple points must be recognized and
long remembered by all the world. The people of this free nation
have clearly shown that they know the truth and are not going to be
misled by false versions of it. These are the facts:
"1. The present troubles in Korea started, not when the UN Security
Council acted or when the US and others acted in support of the
Security Council. It all started at dawn on Sunday, June 25, Korean
time,
"1.2. At that time troops from North Korea, without any provocation
whatever, crossed the 38th parallel and launched an aggressive attack
against the Repbulic of Korea. All the reliable witnesses on the
scene at the time, including the UN Commission, have established
that the North Korean forces were the aggressors.
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