UN General Assembly
1952

6. The Peruvian delegation, interpreting a general desire, presented to the sixth session, of the General Assembly a draft resolution which was adopted [resolution 506 (VI)] by the considerable majority of 43 votes to 8, with 7 abstentions, recommending that the Security Council should consider the applications for membership of the Organization individually, taking into account only the principles of Article 4 of the Charter and the evidence of their peace-loving nature and fulfilment of international obligations. The Assembly, exercising its legitimate prerogative, reminded the Security Council that the admission of new Members was a very important function, It adopted the interpretation of the Charter given by the International Court of Justice, according to which a Member of the United Nations cannot lawfully make its assent to the admission of new Members dependent upon conditions not expressly set forth in Article 4, paragraph 1, of the Charter. It is clear that since the General Assembly adopted the resolution [296 (IV)] founded in law on the advisory opinion to which I have referred, Members of the United Nations may not adduce political reasons of a strictly internal character and purely subjective reasons which contradict opinions they have themselves emitted concerning the conditions governing the admission of new Members to the United Nations.