28021950  Text of the Speech made by Sir Terence Shone (United Kingdom) in the Security Council Meeting No. 468 held on 28 February, 1950

 Text of the Speech made by Sir Terence Shone (United Kingdom) in the Security Council Meeting No. 468 held on 28 February, 1950

I imagine that some of us may perhaps have hoped that the four days which have elapsed since the joint draft resolution now before the Council was presented might have sufficed to enable the representatives of the two parties mainly concerned to give the Council the views of their Governments today. On the other hand, I am sure we can all appreciate that a further brief period of delay may be required in a matter of such importance. At the same time I feel bound to recall to the Council the emphasis which many of its members, including the representative of the United Kingdom, who then occupied this chair, have placed on the importance of avoiding any undue delay in this matter. Some of us cannot but feel concerned at reports which we read in the Press almost every day regarding various questions at issue between India and Pakistan, apart from the question of Kashmir.

The Security Council has, as we all know, a grave responsibility in this question of Kashmir, and we are surely. entitled to hope that anything we may be able to do to lead to a rapid settlement of it will help in other ways as well. I trust, therefore, that I shall not be regarded as pressing matters unduly if I express the hope that within a few more. days we shall be fully apprised of the views of both parties on the joint draft resolution, and that we may then be enabled to take things a stage further in the Council,