UN General Assembly
1948

But everyone would agree that Spain was not a threat to world peace. That threat, judging from what had been said in the Assembly, appeared to come from another quarter. During the discussions at the congress of the Universal Postal Union in 1947, Mr. Costa du Reis had had the opportunity of opposing the view, dictated by political prejudice on the part of most delegations, that certain nations should be excluded from the United Nations specialized agencies. If necessary, he would repeat all the legal arguments he had used at that congress before the First Committee. In any case, he had received definite instructions from his Government to propose immediately that the General Assembly admit Spain, as well as Italy, to the specialized agencies of the United Nations and suspend the measures recommended in the Assembly resolution 89 (I) of 12 December 1946.