Der Sowjetblock vor dem UN-Menschenrechtsausschuss
The Soviet bloc in front of the UN Human Rights Committee

Summary/Abstract: Since the United Nations exist, it has been charged by a dispute over the purpose of the provision of Article 2 (7) of the Charter, according to which none of its provisions empower the Organization to intervene in matters that are intrinsically belonging to the internal competence of a state. The Soviet Union continues to insist on the thesis that human rights and fundamental freedoms are "intrinsically" part of the internal competence of States, so that the United Nations as such and the other Member States have no possibility of intervening, not even engaging with the topic, what is still far from representing an intervention. The Soviet interpretation is a political power issue that cannot be tackled with reasons of reason. After some hesitation, however, Moscow considered the South African racial policy to be case which deserves an intervention - and above all a Soviet intervention. It used the justification that in the case of a "mass" violation of human rights, the formula of Article 2, Section 7, would lose its validity.

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