acfrieved thrargh tie withdrawal of Iraqi forces and the full restaation of Kuwait’s sovereignty - will, we are convinced, serve or ba used, as pact of the designs of tire united Ytatee to intensify its interveniicm in a part of tie wvCiJ which it appears to regard as its awn property. I am grateful to Atiassador Pickering for something which, it s&arm to me, is quits illuminatinq. I listened very carefully to hie statement, as I always &, m.s/eaa s/w.2933 47 (Mr. Alarcon c% Quesada, Cuba) and, at the same time, I was following the text of the press release circulated by the United States Mission and containing the text of his statement. There were a number of additional paragraphs, additional ideas, which he inserted during his statement. Hcwever, there was one @xase which he left out, which is in the peess release but was not spcken by Ambassador Pickering. I can understand his reasons for not wanting to pronounce it, and I am grateful to him for having spoken as he aia. The second mragraph a-r page 2 of the text circulated by the United States Missim contains a reference to Security Council resolution 660 (19901, and thereafter it is statea that the Security Council rmst unequivocally establish today that the family of civil&d nations will not tolerate such behaviour, that is, the behaviour of a State which, accordinq to the text of the statement, fails to comply with the Council’s decision. After this comes a phrase which disappeared from the statement as spoken by the representative of the United States. It is very short, containing just four words, and I shall quote it a “not here, not ever. (1 That phrase could not be uttered because it highlights that inconsistency and that unacceptable selectivity of apgoach which the United States adopts with 