DSR 11C
6.
This country has reason to be proud of the way
in which successive Governments have carried out their
responsibilities towards the territories under our
administration over the years since the United Nations
was created. About a third of the Member States of
the United Nations have reached independence and
membership in the world body as a result of the way in
which we have discharged our obligations under the
United Nations Charter. We shall continue to exercise
our responsibilities towards our remaining dependencies
in the same spirit. We shall assist them to develop
their institutions at the pace and in the direction
that they themselves think right in the light of
their particular conditions.
7. My honourable Friend has drawn attention to the
impact which our delegation to the United Nations
General Assembly were able to make in the run-up to
the vote on the question of the Falkland Islands on
4 November by drawing attention to the fact that our
responsibilities to the people of the Islands are a
sacred trust laid upon us by the Charter of the Organisa-
tion itself. I pay tribute to the valuable part
played by the honourable Member, as a member of our
delegation for some weeks, in helping to bring home
to other delegations the realities of the situation
in the Falkland Islands and the character of the
obligations we are under towards the Islanders.
In
an important statement to the Fourth Committee of
the General Assembly on behalf of the United Kingdom
/delegation,
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