APPROVAL OF A STATEMENT REPUDIATING
THE LEGAL STATUS OF THE FORMER
KUOMINTANG GOVERNMENT'S REPRESENTATIVE
AT THE U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL*
(January 7, 1950)
Source: Telegram in Chinese.

At 1:00 a.m. today (January 7) Vishinsky®' came and talked about
three things: ....
(3) He suggested that our Foreign Ministry send a
statement to the United Nations Security Council to repudiate the legal
status of the former Kuomintang government's representative, Chiang Ting-fu. Vishinsky said if China issues such a statement, the Soviet Union is
ready to take action to the effect that if Chiang Ting-fu remains in the
Security Council as the representative of China (it is said he could even
assume chairmanship of the Security Council this year), the Soviet Union
will refuse to attend Security Council meetings. Vishinsky asked my views
on this matter. I indicated immediately that China's Foreign Ministry can
issue such a statement, adding that my telegram in this connection can
reach Beijing on January 7 and that the statement in the name of Foreign
Minister Zhou Enlai could be dispatched on the 8th or 9th of January. I
asked Vishinsky whether copies of the statement need to be sent to member
states of the Security Council, the Soviet Union, Britain, the U.S., France,
etc., besides the U.N. Security Council and the Secretary-General. He
answered in the affirmative, adding that the Soviet Union can act on the
basis of the telegram from China and that he was asking my views in his
capacity as Foreign Minister. I have given him a formal consent. Please
act promptly upon receiving this telegram, so that the telegram containing
the statement may be dispatched before Enlai's departure. Besides sending
telegrams to the U.N. Secretary-General and Security Council, telegrams
including the telegram to the U.N. should also be dispatched to the Foreign
* This is the main part of a telegram to Zhou Enlai and the Party's Central Committee
from Mao Zedong who was on a visit in the Soviet Union.
Ministries of the Soviet Union, Britain, the U.S., France, etc. Please tell
me how this matter is handled and whether you can manage to dispatch
them on January 9.
(From the original manuscript)