UN General Assembly
1964

10. Everyone knows that the refusal by certain Powers to consent to the reinstatement of the People's Republic of China in all its rights within the United Nations is based on political considerations completely foreign to the spirit in which our Organization was founded. It is undeniable that the Chinese people had every right to adopt the political system of its choice, without thereby losing its international rights. Many other countries have undergone people's revolutions; they have none the less retained their seats in the United Nations. It was the Egypt of King Farouk, not that of President Nasser, which was admitted to the Organization; the Cuba of the dictator Batista, not the People's Republic of Premier Fidel Castro; the Congo (Brazzaville) of Abbé Youlou, not that of President Massamba-Debat; and so forth. Why, then, apply a discriminatory and altogether arbitrary measure in regard to the People's Republic of China?