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PROVISIONAL VERBATIM RECORD OF THE SIXTEEN HUNDREDTH PLENARY MEETING
Held at Headquarters, New York,
on Monday, 20 November 1967, at 10.30 a.m.
President:
later:
Mr. MANESCU
Mr. MOLINA-UREÑA (Vice-President)
(Romania)
(Dominican Republic)
Restoration of the lawful rights of the People's Republic of China in
the United Nations [93]
(a) Draft resolution submitted by Albania, Algeria, Cambodia, Congo
(Brazzaville), Cuba, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Pakistan, Romania and
Syria
(b) Draft resolution submitted by Australia, Belgium, Bolivia,
Brazil, Colombia, Gabon, Japan, Madagascar, New Zealand, Nicaragua, the
Philippines, Thailand, Togo and the United States of America
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AGENDA TEEN! 93
RESTORATION OF THE LAWFUL RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA IN
THE
UNITED NATIONS:
(a) DRAFF RESOLUTION SUBMITTED BY ALBANIA, ALGERIA, CAMBODIA, GONGO
(BRAZZAVILLE), CUBA, GUINEA, MALI, MAURITANIA, PAKISTAN, ROMANIA AND
SYRIA (A/L,531);
(b) DRAFT RESOLUTION SUBMITTED BY AUSTRALIA, HIGIIM, BOLIVIA, BRAZIL,
COLOMBIA, GABON, JAPAN, MADAGASCAR, HOW ZRALAND, NICARAGUA, THE
PHILIPPINES, THAILAND, TOGO AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (A/L.532).
The PRESIDENT (interpretation from French): Before calling upon
the first speaker on this item I would urge representatives who wish to
Teak to tescribe their pracs en koop as possible. I would also request
members of the Asambly who have the intention of making further
proposals or mendments to do so as soon as possible.
Kr. HOT SHEATH (Cambodia) (interpretation from French): decades now the
Chinese problem has been examined and discussed by the General Assmbly.
Those who are opposed to the restoration of the lorful
rights of the People's Republic of China reason as though it were a case
of
the admission of a new Member and, at the same time, recognition of a
Year by year they have recourse to dilatory tactics and dishonest
government, and ignoble manoeuvres to delay the inevitable. This year,
again, they hava submitted a draft resolution (A/L.532) requiring a vote
by a two thirds majority and have asked that the vote should be based on
an evaluation of the merits of the People's Republic of China,*
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(Mr. Huot Sambath, Cambodia)
Let us look at their text. They have contended that:
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....... whenever more than one authority claims to be the Government
entitled to represent a Member State in the United Nations and this
question becomes the subject of controversy in the United Nations, the
question should be considered in the light of the purposes and
principles of the Charter of the United Nations and the circumstances of
each case, For all those who act in good faith, the Government which,
since 1949, has represented China and the 750 million Chinese is the
Government of the People's Republic of China. If there has been
controversy in the United Nations, this controversy has been created by
the American imperialists and their satellites. It is the United States
and the Governments dependent on Washington that have alleged and
continue to allege that it is this handful of refugees, led by Chiang
Kai-shek, who at the present time are under the protection of the
American navy and army in the Chinese province of Taiwan who represent
the 750 million Chinese -- with whom, for that matter, they have had no
contact for two decades,
The situation is a unique one. A man who could not maintain himself in
power in Taivaa without the help of the United States claims the whole
of China, Even today, his representatives assure the Hember States of
the United Nations in pereuptory tones that Chiang Kai-shek is still the
master of China and that the Chinese people fervently desire his return.
In Taiwan, the only reality in a world of illusions is a military
reality. the true reason for the maintenance of military force of half a
million men
on Talven is twofold: first of all, a reason for getting money from the
United States, which boers the cost of the army that brings in foreign
exchange. There has been more than $3,000 million in United States
assistance since 1950,
Finally -- and this is very important because it is not this sy of more
than half a million men that would prevent the liberation of the Chinese
province of Taiwan it is this large-scale military presence which
enables the handful of refugees expelled by the Chinese people to
maintain absolute dictatorship over the island of Taiwan,
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(Mr. Huot Sambath, Cambodia)
Bowever, despite this military presence of half a million men,
Chiang Kai-shek could not last a month without the support of the United
States. For the Chinese, Chiang Kai-shek is linked to a period in their
history which has now been left far behind, a period when they were in a
state of inferiority. As a matter of fact, for many centuries the
Chinese people was humiliated. by the West. As has been written in the
book entitled The Wounded Tree, by that great Chinese writer who is vell
known and whose husband vas a général of the Kuomintang I refer to
Madané Ban Suyin
"Landa no longer belonged to the Chinese. They were British, French,
Belgian and other concessions, surrounded by barbed wire set up in such
a network that you could not see through 1t; and this was
■ barrier dividing Europeans from Chinese."
The author has cited a member of examples by recalling that in 1900
"The Chinese peasants revolted against foreign domination. The réprisals
vere immediate. Peking vas sacked by the Western and Japanese armies and
50,000 persons died. The severa vere full of bodies; the streets piled
high with bodies of men, women and children, lying in
EMBALA of blood,
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Hadasa Haa Suyin also recalled that an author, in his book on China
published in London in 1934, qunted the following from a German officer
who was having a good time in Peking:
"When I go pheasant-hunting, I kill the males, I spare the faneles, and
I let the little ones live. But when I go Chinese-hunting, I kili
everything in sight, men, women and children, old and young." And Hodana
Ben Suyia concludes:
14 "If china is comumlet today it is because the Western Powers have
forced it to be so; and if the peoples of Asia are beginning to believe
that nothing can be accomplished save by force of arms, it is because
scores of years of violence have given then proof of this thesis,
Everything is conditioned by experience, Our future is decided before
our birth. The new generations are receiving at this time the sand
education, namely, that in the last analysis the cannon is the only
arbitrator and here again it is the West has taught them this,"
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(Mr. Huot Sambeth. Cambodia)
Medane Hen Buyin has also given us some interesting information on
the situation of the former collaborators with the old régime:
"I have met dozens of people show I knew when my husband
was a general of the Kuomintang, and we have talked together. I BEW
some of his officer comrades who had previously served Chiang Kai-shek.
They were in good health, living useful lives, and had rallied to the
new China. Among these people now installed in Peking, working or,
because
of their age, placed in easy posts, were a goodly number of former
war lords, whose executioners' gloves were still stained with the blood
of hundreds of thousands of Chinese revolutionaries decapitated or
tortured, and who were none the less there, safe and sound, in Peking.
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(Mr. Huot Sambeth, Cambodia)
But there you have it. We were in China, and that is why the Chinese
revolution is different from all the other revolutions, and why so many
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like my father have rallied to their standard. People are not massacred
blindly; pardon existed for those who showed their repentance and spoke
the truth. mére vas a place for everyone even for a former Manchu
emporar
in that revolution.
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After having succeeded in freeing themselves completely from foreign
ination, the Chinese have committed themselves to the task of national
edification and building, a task vhich they have measured without
illusion, a task ubose breadth and duration they fully understand,
The refusal by the United States to restore to the People's Republic of
China its rights in the United Nations is based on political
considerations totally contrary to the spirit that prevailed at the
founding of our Organization. There is no question about that. In
accordance with the principles of our Charter, the Chinese people, like
the American people, or like any other people, are perfectly
to adopt a political régime of their choice without thereby losing
their international rights. A good many countries have also experienced
popular revolutions and have none the lese kept their seats in the
United Nations, In the circumstances why should we apply a
discriminatory and completely arbitrary messure vis-à-vis the People's
Republic of China?
The question that arises here is not vhether or not we should adnit
China to
the United Nations; the question is to determine who represents China
and the
750 million Chinese? Is it the Chiang Kai-shek régime, the régime that
was expelled by the Chiness people and has taken refuge in the Chinese
province of Taivan under the protection of American imperialists, which
can survive only with American assistance; or is it the popular régime
set up in Peking with the approval, and support of 750 million Chineset
The People's Republic of China is not a Pover that is a candidate for
adidasion to the thited Nations,
It represents a country China -- which 14
part of our Organization and which, moreover, is one of the founding
members and one of the permanent sorbers of the Security Council. It is
false to state that it uns à régime the "Republic of China" as it
existed in 2945 which participated in the creation of the United Nations
for the Charter, in its Article 3, refers not to régimes but only to
States.
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(Mr. Huot Sambath, Cambodia)
Two years ago the spokesman of a founding sexber and a permanent member
of the Security Council of the United Nations, France, said:
"In providing that China would assume the special responsibilities
incumbent upon a permanent member of the Security Council, the Charter
did not intend to confer rights and obligations upon a Government. Those
rights and obligations were to be assumed by the State, taking secount
of all that that State represented and the weight it carried in the
world balance of forces. In other words, the exercise of these rights
and the assumption of these obligations devolve upon the Goverment which
has
Tective control of the Territory, which has charge of its resources and
which represents the people in question. It is therefore the Peking
Goverment alone which, having achieved and maintained the unity of the
country is able to speak and act on its behalf." (1372nd meeting.
paragraph 39)
It should be noted that of the four members of the Security Council,
three have admitted that it is the Government of the People's Republic
of China which represents the Chinese people and vhich alone is entitled
to speak on their behalf and to represent them here in the United
Nations.
China is a Member State and no one can argue that its Government is not
the Government of the People's Republic of China. From the legal
standpoint the General Assembly has no task other than to set in such a
way that the representatives of the People's Republic of China take
their rightful place in the United Nations, that is to say the plan of
China, and to decide by a simple majority vote on their credentials
because it is not here a question of admission or of a decision on an
important question within the meaning of article 18 of the Charter.
For the foregoing reasons my delegation energetically rejects the draft
resolution contained in document A/L.532 sponsored by the United States.
In recent times a number of countries have been agitating for a
separation of China and the Chinese province of Taiwan, This foral
solution of "bus Chinas" could not for a single instant be acceptable to
us because there is only one China. To allege the contrary would be not
only to create a dangerous precedent but also to comit an set of
injustice and a flagrant violation of the very principles of the Charter
of the United Nations which no independent and
sovereign country could tolerate.
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(Kr. Huot Sambath, Cambodia)
Tawar is an integral part of both de jure and de facto Chinese
territory. puring the Second World War, the Cairo and Potsdam
declarations, of which the United States is a signatory, confirmed the
status of Taiwan by proclaiming that the Chinese territory of Taiwan,
vhich Japan had seized after the Sino- Japanese war in 1894 should be
restored to Chins at the end of the War.
After the Japanese surrender, the Chinese Government at that time
officially resumed the control of Taivan, which was proclaimed a
province of China. That is a fact recognized by many countries,
including the United States. If Taiwan now is still not part of the
motherland, it is solely because the United States is occupying it by
force,
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It is certain that, without the restoration to Chine of the province of
Taiwan, which is being administered without any right by the United
States, and without an invitation to the People's Republic of China to
take its place among us with all its rights and prerogatives, the United
Nations will never be able to play the role incumbent upon it but, on
the contrary, will show itasit more impotent each year.
All independent countries on the continent of Asia thạt bave co son
Frontiers with the People's Republic of China and are neighbours of the
People'
Republic of Chine, namely, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan, Burma,
Mongolia, Cambodia, Caylon and the Democratic People's Republic of
Kores, the
Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam and excepting of course Thailand, which
is
colony and a base for American aggression in South-East Asia favourable
to the restoration of the lawful rights of the People's Republic of
Chins in the United Nations and confim that the Government of the
People's Republic of China is the only legitimate representative of the
Chinese people and that it is the only authority to represent China in
the United Nations.
To those who clamour that China displays "aggressiveness" and could
therefore not take ita seat in the United Nations, my delegation would
like to emphasize that if China is disaminating its ideology, the United
States is imposing throughout the world ita military bases, its
occupation of troops, its "local" MILITE, its fascist governments which
are the outerus of CIA 201 d'étate. It is obvious and beyond question
that it is the United States policy of blockade, of pressure and of
threats that has conditioned the general policy of the People's Republic
of (bine,
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(Mr. Buot Sambath, Cambodia)
In this connexion I should like to quote some passages from a book
written y a former special adviser to President Kennedy and President
Johnson. In his book, entitled A Bitter Heritage: Viet-Nan, Mr. Arthur
M. Schlesinger has written:
"What is, therefore, the standpoint of Peking? It is obviously that the
United States is engaged in a gigantic effort to encircle and strangle
China".
It should be pointed out that recent statements of Mr. Dean Rusk and Mr.
MacNamara serve further to confirm this viewpoint.
Mr. Schlesinger continues:
"We should not be surprised that a dogmatic Leninist-Marxist team
interprets the extraordinary deployment of armies, varships, and
American military bases thousands of alles from the United States in
this fashion, the whole being mobilized, on the adatasion of Washington
officials themselves, against none other than the Chinese, Imagine what
ve would think if the Chinese had 400,000 men in South Mexico fighting
to put down a rebellion considered pro-American, if the Chinese had
built powerful military bases there, if Chiness aircraft vere day by day
bombarding North Mexico, if a powerful Chinese navy controlled the
Pacific off our coast and if Paking was denouncing the United States as
the greatest threat to world peace. the question - vhích so much
concerns our sense of justice - vho is the aggressor depends much more
on who is looking through which glasses and with what coloured lenses.
The Peking authorities have certainly studied Munich as carefully as the
United Stater Secretary of State. They are convinced that we are in the
process of burying them: they also believe that appeasment is an
invitation to redoubled aggression and, whatever may be their feeling of
repugnance, their concern for their national survival will make the
fight at one moment or another. On ↳ November 1950 Peking announced: 'To
save our
neighbours is to save ourselves,'
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(Mr. Huot Sembath, Cambodia)
Certain countries which are dependent on Washington have alleged during
the course of the general debate that Chine is engaged in "nuclear
blackmail" shile it. multiplies its efforts to set up a deterrent force,
while the United States, not
content with having accumulated vast stockpiles of atomic and
thermonuclear
weapons, continues to undertake underground experiments. According to
the
United States Press itself, the United States has this year alone set
off
twenty-four explosions.
The position taken at the present time by China in the field of nuclear
disarmament is very similar to that which France adopted before it.
In response to the agreement on the cessation of muclear testing, signed
in Hoscow on 5 August 1963, Chine proposed in the same spirit the
convening of a conference of Heads of Government of all countries of the
world in order to
conclude a treaty whose signatories yould commit themselves not only not
to
manufacture, test or trade in nuclear weapons, but also not to use them
and to
destroy them. It repeated this proposal at the time of its first nuclear
experiment in October 1964, but it received no response from Washington
other
than an allusion to a possible conference of the big five Powers if
Peking
agreed to ratify the Moscow treaty.
The United States has never show itself prepared to give up ita monopoly
nor to engage in a naš reduction of its stocks of boabe or rockets, nor
to
comit itself not to be the first to use nuclear and thermonuclear
weapons.
On the other hand, China, övery time it has carried out a nuclear or
thermonuclear experiment, has solemnly repeated "that at no time and
under no circumstances would China ever be the first to use nuclear
weapona". It added:
"As in the past, the people and the
overment of China vill continue
to wage a resolute struggle, together with other peace-loving countries
and peoples, for the noble purpose of the complete prohibition and
destruction of nuclear weapons.
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It is an aberration to maintain the Chinese people in isolation and in a
status of inferiority and guilt, and it is important that the United
Nations
recognize as speedily as possible that no agreement affecting
international peace and security will be valid without the participation
of China, a Power
with 150 million inhabite which today has become a muclear Power,
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(Mr. Huot Sambath. Cambodia)
It is not China, which is practising "ruclear blackmail" but rather the
overnment of the United States,
Here may I quote a fair pasmges from a book written by President Johnson
binzalf entitled The Future of the United States, published in 196k, The
President of the United States vrots as follows:
"Today the United States is stronger than it has ever been; and this
in every field. It outclasses any of its adversaries and any hostile
alliance, It is even more powerful than a langue of all the countries
of today and of all timme past would be. And its strength is growing.
The
field in which this strength is growing is that of atomic deterrence.
Since January 1961, our possibilities for nuclear retaliation bave
multiplied two and a half times....... When we consider such power, ve
note that, by comparison with it, all the destructive forces brought
to bear in all of the battles unged since the beginning of huan
history are as a firecracker compared to the sun....... In the world of
today there is no longer any room for weskness.. I address myself to
our allies as well as to our adversaries to make then clearly understand
this: our friends have nothing to fear and our enemies would hope in
vein...
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These bellicose and warlike vorda are beyond all comment.
However, despite this material and technical superiority and their
barbarOUS methods of vaging var, the American imperialists today are
being held in check
by the Vietnamese people which is struggling for its Independance and
freedom.
Despite the acts of aggression and provocation committed by the United
States armed forces against it, China has always showm patience and
control. It has tried by means of negotiation to ask the United States
to withdraw all
of its armed forces from the Province of Taiwan and from the Straits of
Taiwan,
and for more than ten years, first at Geneva and later at Warmw, it hea
pursued negotiations with the United States on this question of
principle which is not
open to any concession.
This is clear proof that China has always practised a policy designed to
settle disputes that my exist or may arise between Independent States by
peaceful
means.
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(Mr. Huot Sambath, Cambodia)
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The considerations which I have just set forth clearly show that it is
both
duty and in the interests of the United Nations to restore without
further
delay the lawful rights of the Feople's Republic of China in the United
Nations
and in all of its affiliated bodies. This act should also be followed by
the
immediate expulsion of the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek from the
seats
they occupy illegally in the United Nations and in all of its subsidiary
bodies.
The solution of this problem cannot be delayed further because, on the
one
hand, it is an imperious necessity for the strengthening of the
authority and
the impact of the Organization and, on the other hand, it is
indispensable
to the anfeguarding of the United Nations Charter and the cause that the
Organization should serve in avrordance with the Garter,
It is for these ressons that the delegation of Cambodia would like to
ake an appet) to all hembers of the Organization to support draft
resolution A/L.531 subaltted by the non-aligned countries of Asis and
Afries and to reject
the draft resolution sponsored by the United States.
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Mг. WEI TAO-MIKG (China) (interpretation from Chinese); Today we are
witnessing the spectacle of another campaign the seventh since 1961 vhen
the so-called question of the representation of China was first
inscribed on the agenda to seat the Chinese comunist régime in the
United Nations. The régine that the Assembly is asked to admit is the
same régime that has proved itself the meny of the Chinese people, that
has committed numerous sets of aggression against other countries, that
has flouted the basic principles and purposER of the United Nations,
Much has happened since this question was debated in November of last
year. The turmoil and confusion resulting from the so-called proletarian
cultural revolution have become more widespread. In foreign policy
Paiping has shown Increased ideological militancy. There has been a
general deterioration in the relations between Peiping and the rest of
the world,
One of the most disturbing aspects of current developments has been the
export of Red Guard tactics to foreign landa, Peiping now claims the
right to carry the "cultural revolution" beyond its own borders. This
has been spelled out in the most explicit and unmistakable terms in an
editorial of its official paper, the People's Daily, of 13 August 1967.
I quote:
"Working personnel of Socialist China assisting foreign countries are
enthusiastic propagandists and courageous defenders of the thought of
Mao Tse-tung. Wherever they go, they bring with them the thought of Mao
Tse-tung and make it take root and blossom forth throughout the world,
In the international struggle, Chinese Red fighters assisting foreign
countries, armed with the ever-victorious thought of Mao Tse-tung, ere
firm in their proletarian stand and have clear-cut class love and hate,
Wherever they are, they can at all times see the right direction,
distinguish friends from foes, persevere in the truth, uphold principle,
dare to go up a mountain of pointed svords and plunge into a sea of
fire." Obviously, there is nothing Peiping would not do to encourage and
fament unrest in other countries in the name of the so-called thought of
Mao Tse-tung. By its own admission, all its diplomatic as well as
economie and technical assistance personnel are fifth-columnists charged
with the special responsibility of subverting the countries to which
they are accredited, It does not matter whether those countries are
commist or non-communist, aligned or non-aligned.
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(Mr. Wei Tao-ming, China)
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(Mr. Wel Tao-sing, China)
The case of Bursa is particularly illustrative, Burme, one of the first
countries to recognize the Peiping régine and one of the most ardent
supporters of the Chinese communist cause both inside and outside the
United Nations, bas now become the target of Peiping's most menacing
threats. Peiping now openly calls for the overthrow of the Ne Win
Government, which, in Peiping's view, is "fascist, reactionary and
traitorous" simply because Rangoon has refused to allow Chinese comunist
agents to propagate "Hao Tse-tung'a thought". "To propagate Mao
Tse-tung'a thought", said the People's Daily on 10 July 1967, "is the
sacred and inviolable right of Chinese personnel working abroad".
How seriously should such threats be taken?
In the present circumstances, direct military intervention can perhaps
be ruled out. But this does not mean that the threats can be diastased
with complacmey. Instead of direct military intervention, Paiping has
now
directed its efforts against Bures along three lines: full support for
the outlawed Burma Communist Party, encouragement of separatist
acvements along Bursa's frontier areas, and promotion of subversive
activities in Rangoon and other urban centres. Aggression by proxy, as
is shown in the case of Viet-Nan, can be as much of a sanace to the
independence of a country as open and undisguised military invasion.
A régime that promotes war and violence, that claims the right to
interfere in the internal affairs of other countries and subvert the
Independence of neighbouring States, cannot by any stretch of the
imagination be called peace-loving. Such a régine has obviously no place
in an Organization dedicated to the maintenance of international peace
and security, to the peaceful settlement of international disputes, to
the development of friendly relations among nations based on law and
justice, to the promotion of social progress and better standards of
life in larger freedom, to the encouragement of respect for mean rights
and fundamental freedom,
But, it has been argued, the existence of the communist régime on the
mainland of Chipa is such an Incontrovertible fact that it is absurd to
pretend that it is not
The snaver to that question is that no one ignores the existence of the
régime. Indeed, it is precisely because its existence is such a
dangerous
fact that it must be excluded from an organization such as the United
Nations.
There is another school of thought which attributes Peiping'a outrageous
international behaviour to its political isolation. It is said that,
once admitted to the world Organization and exposed to the civilising
influence of internațional opinion, the régies will cease to be hostile
toward the rest of
the world.
It seems to my delegation that the validity of this argument is open to
question. It is born of illusion and wishful thinking and does not
reflect the realities of the situation at all. Mao Tse-tung and his gang
have never been. known for their azerability to external influence. They
regard themselves as the sole repository of truth. It is difficult to
Inngine that men with such unshakable faith in the righteousness of
their cause can be influenced by anything as volatile as what is called
international opinion. Membership in the United Nations vill not change
their belligerence and hostility; it will only give them an opportunity
to carry out their long-standing threat to "reform" - or rather to
destroy -- the United Nations.
The Peiping régias maintaina diplomatic relations with over forty
countries. I leave it to them to judge what influença they have been
able to
exert on Peiping's international conduct. It van with the express
intention
of bringing the régime's isolation to an end that France recognised it
in 1964, There is no evidence that France has been more successful in
this regard than any other country that has exchanged diplomatic
missions with the Chinese communist régime. Indeed, it may be doubted
whether it is possible to maintain any kind of meaningful relations with
that régine at all, since its every action is a negation of the
principles and practices that have governed normal contacta
between Governmenta.
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(Mr. Wei Teo-ming, China
The truth of the matter is that Peiping's political isolation, if it is
political isolation, is not the cause of its outrageous international
behaviour;
on the contrary, it is its outrageous international behaviour that has
caused
the isolation. Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia must have known what he vas
talking
about when he said that Peiping had lost most of its friends by "walking
on the wrong path". In a speech on 13 September 1967, he said further:
"By 4 September 1967 there remained only two
Albends and Cambodia,
And now, beginning ↳ September, there is only Albania, because it has
lost
Cambodia,"
One morn
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That Prince Sihanouk continues to maintain diplomatic relations with
Peiping does not in any way vitiate the validity of his observation that
Peiping' belligerence and hostility is the product of its own ideology
rather then of pressures and attitudes of the world community.
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The Prince was not unaware of the threat to his country posed by the
Chinese communiste. Mao Tse-tung's cultural revolution, he said at a
press conference on 18 September, "now holds that even small, tiny areas
are worth swallowing". Be likened the cultural revolution to "a whale
which devours small fisher". the Cambodian representative in this
Assembly, in blissful disregard of the true interest of his country,
continues to play a leading role in pressing for the seating of Peiping.
The course of timidity thus adopted will not save Cambodia from
Peiping's aggressive designs. For Cambodia, as for all Southeast Asian
countries, the road to security does not lie in appeasing the aggressor
but in fortifying the will to resist aggression.
Apologists of Peiping contend that in this thermonuclear age the
reduction of international tension must be the first and foremost
preoccupation of world statesmen. For this reason, they believe that the
Chinese communists, for all their intransigence and bellicosity, must be
admitted to the United Nations it is far less dangerous to have them
inside the United Nations than outside it; and what is more, that
without their presence in the United Nations many of the crucial and
urgent problems facing the Organization, including the problem of
disarmament, would remain incapable of solution.
In the view of my delegation, however, this seemingly plausible argument
does not in fact hold water. Those who argue in this manner sem ready to
sacrifice the basic principles of the Charter in order to accommodate
the Chinese communists. It is inconceivable, it seems to my delegation,
that Members of the United Nations who have solemnly pledged themselves
to uphold the Charter could, at the same time, urge its abandonment, The
Charter is the basic law of the Organization. You cannot tamper with the
fundamental law of the Organization without doing irreparable damage to
the Organization itself. Those who are ready to discard Charter
principles in order to accommodate Paiping are at botton motivated by
the fear of war, But to admit Peiping purely on the basis of fear is to
encourage it to move from aggression to aggression until a time when
there remains no tolerable alternative to war. The lesson of the Second
World War should not be easily forgotten.
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(Mr. Wei Tao-ning, China)
As to disarmament, Paiping has already made it abundantly clear that
there can be no reduction of aras until the victory of communis on a
world-wide basis is achieved. In its view, the United Nations "is
absolutely incapable of settling the disarmament question or any other
major international issues".
Obviously, there is no reasm to believe that the problems which now
confront the United Nations would disappear once Paiping was admitted.
But there is every reason to believe that the seating of Pelping in
these halla would bring in ita train a multitude of new problems which
might wall undermine
the very existence of the United NationUS.
Advocates of Peiping's admission not infrequently base their position on
samaptions which are as fallacious as they are unjustified. One of these
assumptions is that the communist ragines on the mainland of China has
the support of the masses of the people. Nothing, however, could be
further from the truth. The Chinese people have never accepted the
communist tyranny and have in fact never ceased to struggle against it.
Bighteen years of unlimited terror and regionatation have failed to
stamp out the spirit of resistance. Millions have perished in the
struggle. Millions have fled the country. Chinese people are a