22061962 Text of the Speech made by Sir Patrick Dean (United Kingdom) in the Security Council Meeting No. 1016 held on 22 June 1962

Text of the Speech made by Sir Patrick Dean (United Kingdom) in the Security Council Meeting No. 1016 held on 22 June 1962

I made the views of my delegation on the matter under discussion clear in my statement of 15 June [1012th meeting]. I do not wish to repeat anything that 1 said then, but I should like to say a few words about the draft resolution that is not before us and which has been so persuasively commended by the distinguished representative of Ireland.

It will be evident from my statements to the Council that this draft resolution accords with the principles which my delegation thought the Council should bear in mind and with the action which my delegation thought that the Council ought to take. My delegation will, therefore, vote in favour of its adoption.

I must at this stage once again make it clear that in this dispute the United Kingdom Government has no side to take, no axe to grind. My delegation has done its best throughout our discussion here to act with complete impartiality as between the two sides. We are embarrassed distressed by a continuing sharp disagreement between two Commonwealth countries with both of whom the United Kingdom has such close relations. The efforts of my delegation have been directed towards finding a conclusion to the Council's discussion that would be fair to both India and Pakistan and acceptable to both. Perhaps we hope for too much, but this draft resolution, in our considered opinion, comes near to this objective. Above all, it seems to encourage the type of direct bilateral discussion from which alone the Kashmir problem can emerge. eventual solution of the

I conclude, therefore, by commending this draft resolution to the Council and to the parties. I hope that it will be accepted in the spirit in which I am sure that it is offered-as a sincere and constructive attempt, prejudicial to neither party, to take a step towards an eventual solution of the problem before us.