21061962 Text of the Speech made by Mr. Quaison Sackey (Ghana) in the Security Council Meeting No. 1015 held on 21 June 1962

 Text of the Speech made by Mr. Quaison Sackey (Ghana) in the Security Council Meeting No. 1015 held on 21 June 1962

Very briefly I would like to correct a misunderstanding which might easily arise from the quotations which have been made from my speech which I gave before the Council two days ago. I want to emphasise that my speech is an integral and carefully and delicately-balanced whole, and any quotation from it might easily detract from the integral nature of the statement.

I think every representative is at liberty and in fact has a right to quote from speeches, but this is a matter which is a delicate one affecting two sovereign States. My Government's position has been-as was very clearly worded in my statement to strike a balance without taking sides. In fact, reference to the UNCIP resolutions, for example, was qualified by the fact that my delegation and I am quoting from my own speech - "...attaches due weight to all the changes that have occurred in the situation since these two resolutions were adopted" [1013th meeting, para. 17.]

I am intervening only to say that I would not like this impression to circulate that in my statement I was leaning toward one side, against the other. As we made clear in our statement, both Pakistan and India are our good friends; and everything we have said here was to help the Council understand the situation, especially the changed circumstances, and try and find out whether, against that background, some kind of solution could be found. I again insist that any solution which the Council would put forward, in its responsibility, should be such as to help the situation, in a manner acceptable to both sides.

Therefore, quotations such as have been made by my good friend, Mr. Plimpton, might easily cause a misunderstanding, because if he were to have analysed my speech very carefully, I made a number of qualifications and guarded nuances, and all these constitute my speech. Therefore, I want to draw attention to the nuances, the qualifications, and all the subtle points I have made in my speech which should be regarded as an integral whole.