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25 (United Kingdom): I support that view.

(Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) (translated from Russian): There is no necessity to link the question of admitting any one country to membership of the United Nations with other, or a series of other, questions of a similar nature. On the contrary, it would seem to me that consideration of all applications as and when they are submitted would be very convenient and necessary. Apart from this, as far as I recall, the Security Council at its last meeting decided to place the question of Albania's membership of the United Nations on the agenda for the following meeting. In my opinion, therefore, this item should be placed on the agenda and the substance of the matter should be discussed.

(Egypt): The question depends rather on the prospects of the length of this part of the session. It would assist us if we could tell beforehand how long this part of the session would last. Naturally, as long as it is a question of time and a question of the necessary opportunity to discuss this question, unless we know something about the length of this part of the session of the General Assembly it is difficult for us to decide it.

(China): This question of the application of Albania for membership of the United Nations really has two aspects; one of principle and one of procedure. I think that in principle, every peace-loving nation could apply for membership, and it is for the Security Council to decide. Therefore, so far as the insertion of this question in the agenda is concerned, personally I think that perhaps we might do that if there is no serious objection. There is also the question of procedure. This is the first application, and the Council is just organizing itself. I take it that the Council, in order to be in a position to consider not only this application but any other applications, naturally will want to formulate some procedure which should be suitable for all cases.

If this view is sound, I think the Council will be fully justified in considering when to take up that question, and whether it would not be useful first of all to have a small sub-committee to suggest some procedure for dealing with applications in general. In short, I look upon this question in two parts. One is a matter of principle which would seem to lead us to put the question on the agenda. On the other hand, the Council is its own master and can decide when to take up the discussion of a particular matter. Before taking up and considering any application, I think it is desirable, perhaps, to have some simple procedure which will be applicable not only to this one case, but also to other cases.


 * May I suggest to the representative of the United States of America that