Office of the Historian

310.2/10–2854: Telegram

The United States Representative at the United Nations (Lodge) to the Department of State

New York, October 28, 1954—7:06 p.m.

Delga 154. Reference: Membership. Following draft resolution tabled by Australia, Pakistan and Thailand:

“The General Assembly,

Noting that at Geneva on 21 July 1954 the representatives of Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, France, Laos, the People’s Republic of China, the State of Vietnam, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the United Kingdom expressed their conviction that the execution of the provisions in their declaration and in the agreements on the cessation of hostilities in Indochina will permit Laos and Cambodia to play their part in full independence and sovereignty in the peaceful community of nations,

Declaring that Laos and Cambodia are peace-loving states within the meaning of Article 4 of the charter, are able and willing to carry out the obligations of the charter and should therefore be admitted to the United Nations.

Request the Security Council to take note of this declaration.

Lodge