04091965 Text of the Speech made by Mr. Ramani (Malaysia) in the Security Council Meeting No. 1237 held on 4 September 1965

Text of the Speech made by Mr. Ramani (Malaysia) in the Security Council Meeting No. 1237 held on 4 September 1965

It is rather unusual for one of the sponsors of a draft resolution to want to explain his vote; but, if you will permit me, I would like to offer a brief comment on the statement made by the representative of Pakistan with regard to what he thought were errors of fact that had been allowed to creep into this resolution.

The second preambular paragraph refers to having heard the statements of the representatives of India and Pakistan, and he thought it was rather singular that we should have used the plural. But I wish to remind him that all that we say here is that we heard the statement that the representative of Pakistan made. That statement was that he reserved the right to make a fuller statement on the vital positions in the political context of the conflict between India and Pakistan on a later occasion. He also said that he repudiated everything that was said by the representative of India. Without meaning to be derogatory either to the representative of India or to the representative of Pakistan, I may say that what had been said by the representative of India was no more relevant to this resolution than what had not been said by the representative of Pakistan. They were both concerned with the situation as it occurred. Until we have heard either the representative of India or the representatives of Pakistan deny the facts as they have been portrayed in detail in the report of the Secretary-General, the draft resolution that we presented and that has been unanimously accepted has the soundest foundation that any resolution could have.