24011957 Text of the Speech made by Mr. Noon (Pakistan) in the Security Council meeting No. 765 held on 24 January 1957.

24011957 Text of the Speech made by Mr. Noon (Pakistan) in the Security Council meeting No. 765 held on 24 January 1957.

I have before me two pictures of Mr. Nehru and his Government; one painted by his representative here, and the other which I shall put to the Council.

According to Mr. Krishna Menon, Mr. Nehru and his Government have already gone back on their international agreements, have already annexed the State of Kashmir to India; it is already a fait accompli. According to the picture of Mr. Nehru in my mind, I think that he is an honorable man representing an honorable people, and, although he and his Government have not yet implemented the agreement to hold a free and fair plebiscite under the auspices of the United Nations, not once has Mr. Nehru made a public statement that he will not honor that agreement. In every statement of Mr. Nehru, which one reads in the papers, in Parliament, has always said that he would honor that agreement and that he would hold a free and fair plebiscite under the auspices of the United Nations.

Now, it is for the people of India to decide whether the picture of Mr. Nehru as painted by his representative here, or the picture that I have in my mind of Mr. Nehru as a gentle man, should be accepted by that great nation. Perhaps it will be a second occasion when Mr. Nehru will have to disown what his representative has said here. opportunity to disown what his representative has said here .

Mr. Krishna MENON (India): Mr. President, I did not rise to a point of order, because we in our country are accustomed to this. This is not a question of Mr. Nehru or of the picture anybody draws. It is a question of what is in the resolutions. and what the issues involved are.

I am sorry, Mr. President, that you permitted this impropriety but, so far as we are concerned, there is not one word in the statements that I have made in this Council which can be interpreted to mean that we will not honor our international obligations. In fact, I requested this Council to act in accordance with the Charter in these matters. But each State Government is entitled to its own interpretation and, what is more, to draw the attention of the Council to all the circumstances and all the surrounding matters in connexion with it.

If this debate is going to go on in the way in which it has gone on in the last three or four minutes, then we are not proceeding in the way that we proceeded on the previous day.

I want to say for the purposes of the record that there is nothing that has been said on behalf of the Government of India which in the slightest degree indicates that the Government of India or the Union of India will dishonor any international obligations it has undertaken.