REPEAL OF VETO SOUGHT

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25273, 27 August 1947, Page 7

REPEAL OF VETO SOUGHT

APPEAL BY BELGIAN LEADER

(Rec. 10.20 p.m.) PARIS, August 28. The Belgian Prime Minister (Mr Spaak), in a statement to the European edition of the “New York Herald Tribune.” called for the amendment of the United Nations Charter to repeal the Big Five’s right of veto. Mr Spaak, who himself is one of the authors of the charter, said that the United Nations would never be able to accomplish its task until the veto was

abolished. The international organisation which alone could ensure peace would never really exist until all nations,-small and large, had accepted the idea that above their own sovereignty existed an international law to which they must be willing to submit. The Paris correspondent of the Associated Press says that Mr Spaak said that there was no other solution for the world than the realisation of the higher international law to which he had referred. Belgium, after experiencing two world wars, had given her complete adherence to the .charter and had made the United Nations the centre of her international activity. The last two years had caused Belgium a certain disillusionment and even uneasiness, yet she considered that the charter was the world’s only hope. The alternative was chaos and recourse to the force of war Belgium’s policy therefore was to improve and perfect in every possible way the principles laid down at San Francisco and the procedural rules governing the United Nations.