Editorial Note
At its 603d Meeting, September 19, 1952, the United Nations Security Council considered French draft resolutions providing for the [Page 255] admission of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia to the United Nations (documents S/2758, S/2759, and S/2760, September 2). The Council also considered a draft resolution presented by the Soviet Union providing for the admission of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (document S/2773, September 15). In the voting which followed discussion, the proposals regarding the admission of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia each received ten affirmative votes (Brazil, Chile, China, France, Greece, Netherlands, Pakistan, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States), but were rejected as the result of negative votes by the Soviet Union—a permanent member of the Security Council. The Soviet proposal on behalf of the Viet Minh government was defeated by a vote of ten to one.
For the record of the meeting, see United Nations, Official Records of the Security Council, Seventh Year, 603rd Meeting (S/PV. 603), pages 1–20. Extracts are printed in Cameron, Viet-Nam Crisis, volume I, pages 194–197.
For documentation on the continuing membership question at the United Nations, the general aspects of which reflected upon the status of the applications of the Associated States of Indochina, see volume III, pages 802 ff.