Text of the Speech made by Mr. Morozov (Union of Soviet Republics) in the Security Council Meeting No. 1016 held on 22 June 1962

 Text of the Speech made by Mr. Morozov (Union of Soviet Republics) in the Security Council Meeting No. 1016 held on 22 June 1962

Mr. President, this is, of course, the beginning of a very interesting lecture, reviewing all the occasions on which the Soviet delegation has used the veto.

I should be prepared to hear out such a review if it were in line with the agenda item which we are now considering. However, the agenda item is not entitled "Review of the use by the Soviet Union of the right of veto in the Security Council since the inception of the United Nations''. Only when we have placed such an item on the agenda shall we be able to listen to anything which any member of the Council may say in this connection, including the distinguished representative of the United States.

For the moment. however, since we are not considering such an item, but an item which is entitled "The India-Pakistan question" and which is known to world public opinion as the "Kashmir question", it would be proper for you, Mr. President, to use the discretionary rights vested in you under the provisional rules of procedure of the Security Council and to explain to the United States representative which item. We are now engaged in considering, and if, now that the draft resolution has been put to the vote, the United States representative has nothing to say in explanation of his vote, then perhaps he will be kind enough to postpone his very interesting popular lecture to another time. But now we obviously have further explanations of vote to listen to, and I therefore raise this point of order and ask Mr. President, if you wish to carry out your duties impartially, to call the United States representative to order.

As far as the USSR delegation is concerned, we shall exercise our right to explain our vote on the draft resolution when the time comes.

I request you, Mr. President, to settle the point of order which I have just raised.