Longest Speech in the United Nations by Indian delegate V.K. Krishna Menon.

 Menon, an Indian nationalist, diplomat and statesman delivered an unprecedented eight-hour speech defending India’s stand on Kashmir. To date, the speech delivered on 23 January 1957 is the longest ever delivered in the United Nations Security Council.

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Why is that we have never heard voices in connection with the freedom of people under the suppression and tyranny of Pakistani authorities on the other side of the cease-fire line? Why is it that we have not heard here that in ten years these people have not seen a ballot paper? With what voice can either the Security Council or anyone coming before it demand a plebiscite for a people on our side who exercise franchise, who have freedom of speech, who function under a hundred local bodies?

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The Security Council regards this as a dispute. It is not a dispute for territory. There is only one problem before you… that problem is the problem of (Pakistan's) aggression.

The Government of India here is not in the dock. We came here as complainants. A distinguished colleague of ours appears to have mentioned this today: why should we be so much on the defence? If it sounds to people that we are on the defence, it may be because we indulged in some understatements both in the past and in the present. We are here not in order to ask for condemnation of anybody, but we are here in order to  state what are our rights under the Charter. Have we the right for the security of our territory? Have we the right to be free from threat? Have we the right to feel assured that the machinery of the Security Council and its resolutions are not going to be used as a smokescreen for the preparation of aggression against us? Have we the right so far as the Council is concerned and I say that it cannot impose it- to live side by side with our neighbour, free from the threats of a holy war? Have we the right to enable our peoples, the great majority of whom are below subsistence levels, to devote their energies, their attention, our resources,our friendships, for their economic and political development?