UN General Assembly
1953

63. Useful advice might have been given us in this respect by certain Asian Powers, particularly India. Although, to our regret, it has been impossible to include these countries from the outset, as participants in the political conference on Korea, my Government firmly hopes — and it will do all in its power to make it possible — that the conference will be able in the near future to associate them in the study of problems with which they are directly concerned and which have a bearing, over and beyond the problem of Korea itself, on all questions affecting the restoration of peace in the Far East.