KASHMIR ISSUE BEFORE U.N.

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28435, 15 November 1957, Page 23

KASHMIR ISSUE BEFORE U.N.

Mr Menon Ends Case

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 9 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 13. In spite of Pakistan’s “denials and protestations of innocence,” the Pakistan regular army invaded the State of Jammu and Kashmir on May 8, 1948, in an act of unprovoked aggression, in ‘‘gross violation of the United Nations Charter,” Mr V. K. Krishna Menon, the Indian Defence Minister, told the United Nations Security Council today. Mr Menon left a sick bed to continue his speech on the Kashmir question. Only when the council was prepared firmly and courageously to face the issue would a just and lasting solution be found, he said. The council in its wisdom would take what steps it wished to take, but it would not expect the country which brought the case before it to surrender. No Indian Government could surrender any part of its territory,” he said. “Playing With Fire” Mr Menon said that any action the council might take without considering the facts India had put forward would be ‘‘playing with fire.” ‘‘We beg you to take into account the fact that this is not a routine discussion which comes as a hardy annual,” he said. Referring to Australia’s position on the question, he said that India was anxious that her relations with her friends across the water in Australasia should not deteriorate. Mr Malik Firoz Khan Noon, the Pakistan Foreign Minister, said that his reply to Mr Menon was ready, but he would refrain from making it now, since it was his desire that the council should ’ proceed with its consideration of the case. He reserved the right to 1 do so later at the appropriate ; time. The council adjourned.

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