501.A Summaries/12–2949: Telegram
The Deputy United States Representative at the United Nations (Gross) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 30—1 a. m.]
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Security Council (458th Meeting)
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narrative
USSR not to recognize “Kuomintang Delegate”
Malik (USSR) recalled at the outset that the USSR had at the last GA supported the declaration of the “Chinese People’s Republic”, in which it challenged the legitimacy of the delegation headed by Tsiang. The USSR, he declared, would not regard the “Kuomintang Delegate” as representing China. After an almost identical statement by Galagan (Ukraine), Tsiang asserted that the two statements struck a blow at the very legal and moral foundations of the UN.
Noting that the basis for the statement lay in a telegram from Chou En-lai, self-styled Foreign Minister of the “so-called People’s Republic”, Tsiang asked: Who made him Foreign Minister; who created that regime? He had, he recalled, placed before the last GA [Page 257] evidence that the “People’s Republic” was nothing but a puppet regime inspired by the USSR. This question had been referred to the IC,18a to which he would submit additional evidence, he stated. It was, he concluded, his “firm belief” that the SC should pay no attention to the USSR and Ukraine “groundless statements”.
Stating that the opportunities to make the foregoing statements had been afforded in accordance with longstanding custom, President McNaughton19 ruled “that the matter is closed”. After Malik intervened again to state that he did not intend to challenge the ruling, since he did not deem it necessary to take note of the “irresponsible statements and slander” of a “man who represents nobody”, the agenda was adopted without objection and the council turned to the Kashmir question. …
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