UN General Assembly
1963

48. The Government of the People's Republic of Albania has placed before the General Assembly a request (A/5498) for the inclusion in the agenda of the eighteenth session of an item entitled "Restoration of the lawful rights of the People's Republic of China in the United Nations". This question, as has been vehemently and rightly stressed by the representatives of Cambodia, Burma and several other countries preceding me at this rostrum, is a fundamental and pressing problem of the United Nations. Any delay in its solution is directly harmful to the United Nations itself and to the cause of international peace and co-operation. It is now clear that the absence of the People's Republic of China bars the United Nations from solving the principal international problems; whereas the presence of China would assuredly consolidate the United Nations and contribute greatly to current efforts to solve these problems.