Office of the Historian

65. Telegram From the Mission at the United Nations to the Department of State1

New York, February 25, 1957.

Delga 798. Re Soviet item in special political committee. Following resolution introduced by USSR today:

“The GA,

“Noting with anxiety the recent aggravation of the international situation and the deterioration of relations between states;

“Noting that this situation has been caused, among other things, by the subversive activities of the USA and its intervention in the domestic affairs of the people’s democracy;

“Considering that the states members of the UN are bound under the Charter ‘to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors’;

“Recalling that in its Resolution 110 of 3 November 1947 the General Assembly condemns ‘all forms of propaganda, in whatsoever country conducted, which is either designed or likely to provoke or encourage any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or acts of aggression’;

“Taking also into consideration the fact that the GA on 17 December 1954 recommended to member states the international convention on the use of broadcasting in the interests of peace of 1936 in which the contracting parties;

“‘Mutually undertake to prohibit and, if necessary, to bring to an immediate stop in their respective territories any transmission which could, to the detriment of proper international understanding, instigate the inhabitants of any territory to acts contrary to internal order or security of the territory of one of the high contracting parties’;

  • “1. Condemns the subversive activities of the USA against other states as contrary to the UN Charter and incompatible with the principles of which relations between states should be based;
  • “2. Calls upon the US Government to cease its subversive activity and its intervention in the domestic affairs of other states on any pretext and to develop its relations with these states in accordance with the principles of the UN Charter.”
Lodge
  1. Source: Department of State, Central Files, 320/2–2557. No time of transmission is given on the source text.↩