As a result of reports indicating misunderstanding of Israel’s vote at the United Nations on November 13 on whether consideration of Red Chinese admission to the U.N. should be barred until after the present session, a spokesman for the Israel Embassy today clarified the facts of the case.
The Embassy spokesman explained that the misunderstanding was based on a misreading of the report. The issue voted on was not whether to accord a seat to Communist China in the United Nations, he said. He explained it was whether “consideration” of such a proposal should be barred “for the duration of the sixth regular session” of the U.N. General Assembly.
On the basic issue, Israel did not commit itself one way or another, the spokesman declared. Israel had already made clear its view that Communist China should not be admitted to the United Nations while fighting U. N. forces, he said. On the procedural issue, however, Israel did feel, as a matter of principle, that no ruling should be laid down in advance which would preclude any possibility, irrespective of new circumstances that might arise, of even considering the question for the rest of the 1951-52 session, the spokesman pointed out.
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