| Summary: | Records of this digital collection were assembled to document the work of the UN Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary established on January 10, 1957 by the United Nations General Assembly for the purpose of investigating the 1956 Hungarian revolution.
Principal contributor(s): United States. Mission to the United Nations
The following official government statements are attached to this communiqué: 1) Statement of the President of the United States concerning the execution of Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter 2) Statement from the Press Conference of the Secretary of State concerning the execution of Imre Nagy and his other compatriots which has occurred in apparent violation of the pledge of safe conduct; in complete secrecy with no opportunity for the executed to state their case before any court of world opinion or before the world press; 3) Concurrent Resolution of the Congress of the US Congressional Record in which the President of the United States expresses through the organs of the United Nations and through all other appropriate channels the deep sense of indignation regarding the executions as an act of barbarism and perfidy of the government of the Soviet Union.
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