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The Asian Nations and the United Nations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Arthur Lall
Arthur Lall
Affiliation:
Formar permanent respresenative of india at the United Nations, is Lecturer in Internation Law, Cornell University.
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Extract

In terms of the opening phrase of the Charter of the United Nations—“We the peoples of the United Nations”—the dominant image which comes to mind is that of Asia. Though not all the countries of Asia are Members of the United Nations—notably Korea, Vietnam, and now Indonesia—the Asian peoples of the United Nations (including the Chinese) not only greatly exceed in numbers those from any of the other major areas of the world but considerably outnumber all the peoples from these areas taken together.

Type
III. The United Nations and Its Members
Information
International Organization , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , Summer 1965 , pp. 728 - 748
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1965

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References

1 Population and Vital Statistics Report: Data available as of 10 October 1964 (UN Document ST/STAT/Ser.A/71).

2 This figure includes Cyprus and Turkey, states which sit in the Afro-Asian group at the United Nations, and excludes Israel although that state is geographically in Asia.

3 Churchill, Winston S., Triumph and Tragedy (New York: Bantam Books, 1962), p. 308Google Scholar.

4 The United Nations Conference on International Organization: Selected Documents (Department of State Publication 2490, Conference Series 83) (Washington, D.C: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946), pp. 89–242Google Scholar.

5 Security Council Official Records (1st year), Supplement No. 1, pp. 82–83.

6 The United Nations Conference on International Organization: Selected Documents, p. 175.

7 Security Council Official Records (1st year), 23rd meeting, February 16, 1946, p. 367.

8 Yearbook, of the United Nations, 1946–47 (Lake Success, N.Y: United Nations Department of Public Information, 1947), p. 343Google Scholar. Italics added.

9 Ibid.

10 Ibid.

11 Ibid., p. 344.

12 Ibid., p. 329.

13 Ibid., pp. 334–335.

14 General Assembly Resolution 1762 A (XVII), November 6, 1962.

15 Text of statement obtained from the permanent mission of Kenya to the United Nations.

16 General Assembly Resolution 610 (VII), December 3, 1952.

17 General Assembly Resolution 808 (IX), November 4, 1954.

18 UN Document A/L.232. The vote on November 19, 1957, was 24 in favor, 34 against, with 20 abstentions.

19 UN Document A/C.1/L.255/Rev.1 and Rev.1/Add.1–5.

20 General Assembly Official Records… First Committee (15th session), pp. 278–279, 283–284.

21 General Assembly Resolution 400 (V), November 20, 1950.

22 General Assembly Resolution 520 (VI), January 12, 1952.

23 General Assembly Resolution 1030 (XI), February 26, 1957.

24 UN Document A/C.2/L.331.

25 General Assembly Resolution 1219 (XII), December 14, 1957.

28 General Assembly Resolution 1897 (XVIII), November 11, 1963.

27 Final Act of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UN Document E/CONF.46/L.28).

28 UN Document E/3917/Rev. 1, p. 18.

29 Ibid., p. 26.