330/1–1050: Telegram
The United States Representative at the United Nations ( Austin ) to the Secretary of State
20. Following is text of U.S.S.R. resolution submitted SC January 10, to be considered at meeting of SC January 12:
“The SC
“Having considered the statement made by the Central People’s Government of the Chinese People’s Republic on 8 January 1950 to the effect that it considers the presence in the UN SC of the representative of the Kuomintang group to be illegal and insists on the exclusion of that representative from the SC,
“Decides not to recognize the credentials of the representative referred to in the statement by the Central People’s Government of the Chinese People’s Republic and to exclude him from the SC.”1
- For official text see SC,5th yr., No. 1, p. 3. For the proceedings of the Security Council on January 10, the first meeting of the fifth year, see ibid., pp. 1 ff. The Soviet Representation (Malik) left the Security Council chamber during this session, after the Council failed to take immediate action on the proposal embodied in this draft resolution. The Department was informed of this development by the United States Mission at the United Nations (USUN) in the Mission’s daily summary telegram (New York 18, January 10, 9:45 p. m., file 330/1–1050).↩