RUSSIAN DEFINITION OF AGGRESSION

Wanganui Chronicle, 9 November 1950, Page 5

RUSSIAN DEFINITION OF AGGRESSION

NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—The Soviet Union circulated in the Political Committee of the United Nations today a resolution giving its definition of aggression. The definition 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 miliary 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 territory without permission, or laid down a naval blockade. The resolution said 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 nat on, alleged shortcomings of its administration. any revolutionary or counterrevolutionary movement, civil war, disorders or strikes, or the State’s economic or social system. Neither would an attack he justified by violation of international treaties or trade agreements, the rupture of diplomatic relations, economic boyccll. immigration laws, refusal to allow passage of foreign forces, religious measures or frontier incidents.