UN General Assembly
1969

authority of the United Nations, on which I should like to state the views of my Government, and this is the question of the restoration of the rights of the People’s Republic of China in the United Nations. The arguments in support of seating the representatives of the largest nation State in the world, a State which is also a nuclear Power, would seem to be obvious. They have been stated often enough in this Assembly and they are given added weight by the reference last month of the Secretary-General to the “mad mo- momentum” of the nuclear arms race, and to his appeal that every Government should make “serious attempts... to associate in one way or another all five nuclear Powers with the negotiations for disarmament” [A/7601/Add.1, para. 45]. We cannot ask a State to respect our authority when we exclude that State from participation in our decision-making machinery. In addition, we cannot expect the authority of the United Nations to carry full weight if the principle of universality is ignored. Suffice it for me to