Report, United Nations General Assembly Seventh Session, First Committee, 511th Meeting

United Nations GENERAL FIRST COMMITTEE, 511th MEETING ASSEMBLY Thursday, 23 October 1952, at 3p.m. SEVENTH SESSION Official Records Headquarters, New York CONTENTS Page Reports of the United Nations Commission for the Unification and Re- habilitation of Korea (A/1881, A/2187, A/C.1/L.1 and A/C.1/L.2) (continued) 11 Chairman: Mr. João Carlos MUNIZ (Brazil). Reports of the United Nations Commission for the 4. Mrs. SEKANINOVA-CAKRTOVA (Czechoslo- Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea vakia) stated that it was the task of the United Nations (A/1881,A/2187,A/C.1/L.land(A/C.1/L.2) not merely to discuss the question but also to make a (continued) contribution to the immediate restoration of peace in [Item 16 a]* Korea, to the cessation of bloodshed and the horrors of the Korean war, to a peaceful settlement of the 1. The CHAIRMAN recalled that, by General As- Korean question and to the securing of Korea's inde- sembly resolution 507 (VI), the sixth session of the pendence. Bearing these tasks in mind, it was essential Assembly postponed the consideration of the report of that representatives of the people of Korea be present. the United Nations Commission for the Unification and Therefore the Czechoslovak delegation supported the Rehabilitation of Korea. There were consequently two USSR draft resolution. reports under this item (documents A/1881 and A/ 2187). 5. Mr. ACHESON (United States of America), in supporting the Thailand draft resolution, recalled that 2. Mr. PUNYARATABHAN (Thailand), speaking the Republic of Korea was the innocent victim of the on a point of order, observed that Thailand was a mem- aggression which the United Nations found had taken ber of the United Nations Commission for the Unifica- place and had been a partner in the struggle to resist it. tion and Rehabilitation of Korea, the reports of which The Republic of Korea had participated in the discus- dealt at length with the political developments and the sions in the past and it was only proper it should be economic and financial situation of the Republic of there now. The United States representative added that Korea. His delegation was of the opinion that it would the North Koreans, who had been found by the United be only just that a representative of the Republic of Nations to be the aggressors, had no place at the Gen- Korea, an independent sovereign State, be invited to eral Assembly. The proper place for the aggressor, if participate, without the right to vote, in a discussion of any place were proper for him, was in the tent at Pan- that item on the agenda. He thereupon submitted a munjom. He earnestly solicited the votes of his col- draft resolution (A/C.1/L.1) to that effect. leagues to reject the USSR draft resolution. 3. Mr. VYSHINSKY (Union of Soviet Socialist Re- 6. Mr. POLITIS (Greece) stated that his delegation publics) said there was no need to stress the extent to supported the Thailand draft resolution. With regard which the Koreans themselves were interested in the to the USSR draft resolution, he said it was inadmis- discussions of this question on the agenda and he sible not only for reasons of law but also for those of quoted from a cablegram (A/C.1/L.2) dated 17 Octo- elementary morality. It was inadmissible for reasons of ber 1952 addressed to the President of the General As- law because, in the present case, it was not simply a sembly from the Government of the People's Democra- distinction between the United Nations, on the one tic Republic of Korea requesting permission to be heard. hand, and a non-Member State on the other, but of the The USSR delegation regarded the demand of the United Nations and an aggressor. The Charter im- People's Democratic Republic of Korea as just and posed preliminary conditions for the admission of a introduced a draft resolution (A/C.1/L.2) to invite its third party when it was to be heard by the Organiza- representatives to participate in the consideration of tion. Therefore, the aggression must cease before any the question. The USSR representative also said that direct contact could be considered between the United his delegation had no objection to the Thailand draft Nations and the adversary. resolution. 7. The United Nations had never concealed its desire * Indicates the item number on the agenda of the General to achieve an honourable cessation of hostilities, which Assembly. depended on the final success of the armistice negotia- 11 A/C.1/SR.511