830/11–1150: Telegram
The United States Representative at the United Nations (Austin) to the Secretary of State
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[Received November 11—8:31 p. m.]
809. Re Chinese Communist delegation to SC. Following is text cable received from Chou En-lai dated Peiping November 12, received Lake Success 3:55 p.m., November 11. Cable addressed to UN SYG for transmission to President SC.
“I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of Mr. Trvgve Lie’s cable 36.1
In the name of the Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China I make the following statement to the UN SC:
We cannot accept the invitation decided upon by the 520th meeting of the SC on November 8, 1950, because according to the contents of the resolution this invitation deprives the representatives of the Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China of the [Page 1134] right to discuss in the SC the most pressing question to the Chinese People, namely the question of armed intervention in Korea, and aggression against China by the US Government, and limits the right of the Chinese representatives to the discussion of the special report of the so-called UN Command which was engendered illegally by the SC under manipulation of the US, during the absence of the two permanent members, the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China, and whose report is therefore not only one-sided and malicious, but also unlawful, and absolutely cannot be taken as basis for discussion.
In the name of the Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China I hereby propose to the UN SC that, in view of the gravity of the two questions of armed intervention in Korea and aggression against China’s Taiwan by the US Government, and in view of the fact that the two questions are closely related, it would be most proper that the SC combine the discussion of the accusation raised by the Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China against armed aggression on Taiwan by the US Government and discussion of the question of armed intervention in Korea by the US Government, so that the representative of the People’s Republic of China, when attending the meeting of the SC to discuss the ‘complaint against armed aggression on Taiwan’ may raise at the same time the accusation against armed intervention in Korea by the US Government.”2
Department pass Praha, Moscow, Belgrade, Praha 2, Moscow 5, Belgrade 4.
- Text in U.N. document S/1898.↩
- Telegram 808, November 11, from New York, not printed, transmitted the text of another cable from Chou En-lai to Trygve Lie informing him that a nine-member delegation led by Wu Hsiu-chuan, head of the Soviet and Eastern European Department of the Foreign Ministry of the People’s Republic of China, would proceed by air to Lake Success via Praha and London on November 14 to attend the Security Council sessions on the PRC complaint of aggression against Taiwan (330/11–1150). The Chinese delegation did not arrive in New York until November 24.↩