UN General Assembly
1956

86. My delegation voted whole-heartedly for the adoption of those provisional measures, but it considers that, as Mr. Pineau has said from this rostrum [589th meeting], the United Nations must examine not only the consequences of the present conflict, but also its causes. 87. In this connexion, a proposal recently submitted to this Assembly [590th meeting] by the Cambodian representative on behalf of his Government appears to me to merit our attention. He proposed that, with a view to achieving a lasting solution of the crisis in Egypt and in the Middle East, a special commission of inquiry should be set up consisting of representatives of neutral States that have no important interests in the matters to be judged. It should perhaps be pointed out to the Cambodian representative that certain passages in the official communique which he read us give the impression that this special commission of inquiry is to be vested with judicial powers, or powers of arbitration, in addition to its ordinary functions. Such powers would obviously be beyond its scope.