Text of the Speech made by Mr. Ramani (Malaysia) in the Security Council Meeting No. 1238 held on 6 September 1965

 Text of the Speech made by Mr. Ramani (Malaysia) in the Security Council Meeting No. 1238 held on 6 September 1965

I am privileged-it is rather melancholic privilege-once again to introduce a draft resolution sponsored by Bolivia, the Ivory Coast, Jordan, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Uruguay [S/6662].

The formulation of this draft resolution is the result of many hours of efforts not only to express the ideas relevant to the immediate developments; but also to find the proper words to describe them accurately.

We apologize for having made it necessary for the President to convoke this meeting after the hour originally fixed for our meeting this afternoon.

As I said at the 1237th meeting of the Council, when I introduced the previous draft resolution calling for a cease fire, no words of mine are required to elucidate or explain any of the terms of the present text. They are plain as plain can be. I wish to emphasise once more-since fears and doubts have been expressed that this text or resolution 209 (1965) might presuppose acceptance of a certain political attitude on one side or the other-that this draft resolution, too, makes no find produces no judgements, on the basic issues which, unfortunately and tragically, have bedeviled the relations between the sister countries of India and Pakistan.

If this draft resolution proceeds on any findings at all, it proceeds on two undeniable facts: first, the Security Council is still waiting for some hopeful or helpful response to its appeal for a cease-fire and, secondly, the conflict is obviously expanding and spreading. This draft resolution, therefore, merely decides that the Security Council, being naturally concerned with the serious developments, is anxious to do something and to do it at once to give effect to its own resolution, so that this bloody conflict is halted and does not spread.

It throws, we realise, on the shoulders of the Secretary General, burdened and bent as he is with the numerous problems of a strife-prone would, the additional burden of bringing some calm to this distracted area of the world, which has continuously lived under the shadows of war and conflict for eighteen long years. I am sure, as we all are, that he will find the means to give prompt effects to our draft resolution If there is anyone who can find such means, he alone can and, if I may say so, I am confident he alone will.

I commend this draft resolution to my colleague, and I have no doubt that it will receive the same unanimous support that the previous resolution did.