Review of United States Participation in the United Nations: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, First SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1963 - Всего страниц: 42 |
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17th General Assembly 1962 and prior Afro-Asian bloc agreement Ambassador American arrearages arrears assessments Castro Chairman Khrushchev charter colonial COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN Communist concerned confrontation Congo crisis correct COST OF U.S. countries course crises Cuba CUBAN CRISIS Senator decision defense budget EUGENE BLACK fact Fiscal foreign policy interests FOREIGN RELATIONS FRANK CARLSON FRANK CHURCH INSIST ON INSPECTION International Refugee Organization Katanga keeping the peace Korea Lebanon majority membership Middle East million missiles national interest Nations Emergency Force nuclear onsite inspection Organization of American PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS Senator percent percentage political powers President problems proposal question record regular budget representatives Russia Secretary Security Council Senator AIKEN Senator CARLSON Senator CHURCH Senator CLARK Senator Gore Senator SPARKMAN Soviet Union specialized agencies statement STEVENSON subcommittee tion total cost troops U.N. PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS U.S. CONTRIBUTION U.S. SUPPORT United Nations Emergency UNOC Vietnam vote
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Стр. 10 - States are generally in harmony with the foreign policy interests of all nations which want to see a peaceful community of independent states working together, by free choice, to improve the lot of humanity. And since the majority of the nations of the world shares this goal, the majority consistently sides with the United States — or we side with them, depending on your point of view — when the roll is called and the yeas and nays are counted. It's as simple as that. But let us take a couple...
Стр. 9 - We are no more and no less than the most influential of the 110 members. If we were less, we would be failing to exert the influence of freedom's leader; if we were more, we would destroy the effectiveness of the United Nations, which depends precisely on the fact that it is not an arm of the United States or of any other government, but a truly international organization, no better or worse than the agreements which can be reached by the controlling majorities of its members.
Стр. 3 - UN serves the national interest, it is worthwhile to pose a prior test : Is the United Nations relevant to the real world of the second half of the 20th century ? For if the United Nations does not reflect the real world, it is unlikely to be able to do anything useful about it. FIVE DOMINANT FACTS OF LIFE IN THE 20TH CENTURY What then are the dominant factors that make the real world what it is in the second half of the 20th century? I think we can limit ourselves to brief mention of five dominant...
Стр. 10 - UNITED NATIONS JUSTIFIED Even faith in our kind of institutions would not, however, be enough to justify support for the United Nations if it worked against us. But this dilemma, happily, does not exist, and the record proves it. The fact is that the story of the last General Assembly — when the US position was the majority position better than four times out of five — is the standard story of succeeding Assemblies over the past 17 years. The fact is that in 17 years the Soviet Union has never...
Стр. 4 - THE 17TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY Let us come, then, to the question of how effective from our point of view. What's in it for us ? How— as the most recent example — does the record of the 17th General Assembly stand the test ? I said a moment ago that the agenda of the 17th General Assembly was a virtual compendium of the ongoing problems of the modern world. Listen to this list of trouble spots and sore spots : the Congo, the Gaza Strip, Southern Rhodesia, South- West Africa, the Portuguese African...
Стр. 8 - We can, of course, say with assurance that, in this case or that, our policies prevailed and our objectives were gained. We can point to objective proof of progress here and there. We can show that unfriendly moves by X and Y were defeated or diverted — and that in all of these cases the United Nations had a useful part to play. SPECULATION ON A WORLD WITHOUT THE UNITED NATIONS But to form mature judgments as to the real value of the United Nation to the interests of the United States, it seems...
Стр. 8 - I should not care to speculate on how or when the Cuban crisis might have been resolved — or whether it could have been resolved — without the United Nations. But I do say that the United Nations played a large part in a complex exercise in diplomatic action which averted the threat of thermonuclear war ; and for this I think we can thank our stars.
Стр. 2 - ... subject — one which can be approached from many points of view. From one point of view it is a symbol of the aspirations of most of humanity for peace, for decency, and human dignity. From another point of view it is an institution of 110 members pioneering the arts of parliamentary diplomacy on a near-universal level. From still another: it is a very large operating mechanism performing such varied activities as stopping a war, spraying tropical villages with DDT to combat malaria, and drafting...
Стр. 5 - ... extreme resolutions recommending sanctions against member States we voted against the majority. This is the measure of the extent to which our membership in the United Nations served the foreign policy interests of the United States across the spectrum of issues represented by the agenda of the 17th General Assembly. Meanwhile, the impact of the twin crises in the Caribbean and the Himalayas raised our credit — and our credibility ; had the opposite effect on the stock of the Soviet Union;...
Стр. 19 - IN THE CUBAN CRISIS I will quote from your statement : But the fact is that at the height of this most dangerous period of the postwar world, Chairman Khrushchev agreed — even proposed — an international inspection team under United Nations auspices, a proposal to which we could quickly agree and which became part of the formula for disengagement between the United States and Soviet heads of state. And Castro's refusal of UN inspection converted a quarrel between the Soviet Union and the United...