UN General Assembly
1952

104. It would be paradoxical to recognize, the right of certain peoples to self-government while denying other peoples, legally constituted and democratically organized, the right to belong to the association of free peoples who make up the United Nations. I need mention only one case — Italy, which, although a peace- loving and democratically constituted nation, has been denied the right to join the United Nations because of a whim expressed through the misuse of the veto. The misuse of the veto destroy the democratic nature of the Charter, since it places fifty-five Member nations in a position of inferiority with regard to the five great Powers. In association with the other Central American republics, my delegation is carefully considering the possibility of putting an end to the misuse of the veto to the extent that it erects a wall of discrimination against all those nations which are entitled to become Members of our Organization, giving it added strength and prestige in the world. It is an incredible fact that, because of the intolerance of certain parties, the promises of the signatories of the Moscow Declaration of 1 November 1943, in particular as regards the treaty of peace with Austria, have still not been carried out. It is no less incredible that free general elections have not yet been held throughout Germany to settle the question of its unification under a truly democratic regime.