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Statement by Ambassador Munir Akran

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Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations

In the Plenary of the General Assembly under Agenda Item 53:
"Question of equitable representation on and increase in
the membership of the Security Council and related matters"
July 11, 2005

Mr. President,

I thank you for convening this meeting of the General Assembly.

2. When the Charter of the United Nations was adopted in San Francisco, President Harry Truman of the United States said to the assembled delegates:

"You have created a great instrument for peace and security and human progress in the world.

The world must use it now.

If we fail to use it, we shall betray all those who have died in order that we might meet here in freedom and safety to create it.

If we seek to use it selfishly – for the advantage of one nation or any small group of nations – we shall be equally guilty of that betrayal."

 

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