§ 76. Colonel Beamishasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affiairs if he will summarise briefly the information received by the United Nations Special Committee on Hungary regarding compliance by the Soviet and Hungarian Governments with the United Nations resolutions on Hungary, giving the Committee's conclusions about the number of executions since the 1956 rising, the numbers deported to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or other foreign countries, the number in prison or in concentration camps in Hungary, and the number awaiting secret trial; and what further action this Committee intends to take to draw public attention to these matters and bring pressure to bear on all concerned to behave in a civilised manner.
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Commander NobleThe United Nations Special Committee on Hungary has recently prepared a report which relates largely to the executions of Imre Nagy and his associates which it describes as striking, but unhappily not isolated, examples of the continued policy of repression carried out at the present time in Hungary. It is also largely a story of broken pledges and of the refusal of the Soviet, Hungarian and Roumanian Governments to give the Committee any assistance whatsoever. It does not contain any evidence of deportations nor any estimate of the number of persons at present imprisoned in Hungary or awaiting trial. The Committee did, however, find that Soviet armed forces are still in Hungary; that there is continued disregard there for Resolutions of the United Nations and for human rights; and that, solely on the evidence of announcements by the Hungarian authorities themselves, at least 33 persons connected with the Hungarian rising were sentenced to death between 20th June, 1957, and 21st June, 1958, in addition to the 31 mentioned in the Committee's previous report.
The Committee is transmitting its report to Governments. It will be for them and for the General Assembly of the United Nations to consider what further action should be taken.