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dated February 20, 1957: Soviet support

The Soviet Union declared in the UN Security Council on February 18 that there was no question of holding a plebiscite in Kashmir and that the Russian Government considered that, in essence, the question of Kashmir had already been settled by the people of the State who considered their territory was an integral part of India. The Soviet delegate, Mr. Arkady Sobolev, speaking immediately after the Pakistan Foreign Minister, Mr. Firoz Khan Noon, had announced the acceptance of the four-Power resolution on Kashmir, also dismissed as "flagrant contradiction of the purposes of the Charter and an offence to the Kashmir people," the idea of sending a UN force there. Mr. Sobolev said the UN Charter did not provide for the use of armed forces for any purpose other than to repel aggression.

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