UN General Assembly
1963

102. I should like now to touch briefly on a particular question. As is known, the Government of the Mongolian People's Republic, guided by humanitarian ideals, made a proposal for inclusion on the provisional agenda of the present session of the General Assembly of the question of the policy of genocide carried out by the Iraqi authorities against the Kurdish people. Perhaps those present here are well aware of the inhuman and brutal repressions that are being launched by the authorities in Iraq against the Kurdish people in response to their just demand that they be granted local autonomy Within the Republic of Iraq. I am not going to speak here on the positive response this proposal has met with on the part of public opinion and what reaction it has evoked on the part of the ruling circles of Iraq. My delegation simply wishes to explain the motives that have caused us to withdraw the Kurdish question from the agenda of the eighteenth session.