RUSSIA DEFINES AGGRESSION

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26264, 8 November 1950, Page 7

RUSSIA DEFINES AGGRESSION

RESOLUTION SET OUT FOR U.N.

(Rec. 7.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 6. The Soviet Union circulated in the Political Committee of the United Nations to-day a resolution giving its definition of aggression. It stated that in the event of mobilisation or concentration by another State of considerable armed forces near its frontier the threatened State had a right to take measures of a military nature without, however, crossing the frontier. The resolution also defined an attacker as a State which either declared war, invaded another State with armed forces, bombarded any territory or national ships or aircraft, entered any x territory without permission, or laid'down a naval blockade.

It said that no attacks by one State on another could be justified by arguments of a political, strategic, or economic nature.

States in particular could not use as justification the backwardness of any nation, the alleged shortcomings of its administration, or any revolutionary or counter-revolutionary movement, civil war, disorders or strikes, or a State’s economic or social system. Neither would an attack be justified by the violation of international treaties or trade agreements, the rupture of diplomatic relations, economic boycott, immigration laws, refusal to allow the passage of foreign forces, religious measures, or frontier incidents.