UN General Assembly
1954

57. In the second place, the Geneva Conference, at which the People’s Republic of China took its legitimate place in the ranks of the other Powers, clearly indicated the important role in the solution of international problems to be played by the 600 million Chinese people and their Central People’s Government at Peking. It has therefore long since been necessary to discard a policy based on the assumption that it is possible at the present time to solve international problems without the People’s Republic of China, particularly problems relating to the maintenance of peace and security; that it is possible, without infringing the principles of the United Nations Charter, to ignore the right of the People’s Republic of China to take its legitimate place in the United Nations.