India Seeks Admission Of New China To U.N.

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26887, 13 November 1952, Page 9

India Seeks Admission Of New China To U.N.

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, November 11. Mrs Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, leader of the Indian delegation, told the General Assembly today that the continuance of hostilities in Korea was “the most immediate challenge to the peace-making functions of the United Nations.” “On the matter of the larger problem of the Far East I must restate the view of my Government that the People’s Government of China should be brought into the United Nations,” said Mrs Pandit. “Until the issue of Chinese representation is settled in accordance with the actual facts of the situation our discussions here must continue to be unreal.”

She said that apart from Korea there were other dangers to peace in other parts of the world no less threatening because they were less apparent.

She reiterated India’s sympathy with the aspirations of Tunisia and Morocco for full self-government and said that the achievements of the United Nations in respect of Libya and Indonesia made it all the more imperative that Tunisia and Morocco should not be denied what their neighbours had secured. Elsewhere in the African Continent, Mrs Pandit said, the situation was fast deteriorating because of the pursuit of the racial policy supported by a series of legislative and executive measures designed to perpetuate domination of one race over the others.

She expressed the belief that the economic and social reconstruction of underdeveloped countries must be based primarily on self-effort, but cooperative effort, through international agencies, must be further promoted in order to quicken the process of development.