In fact 17 subjects are mentioned and here we find almost all of them reproduced verbatim in this list. In entry 10 we have said: “Foreign Affairs; all matters which bring the Union into relation with any foreign country.” So this entry No. 10 is very comprehensive and in fact includes all the entries which follow, at least 17 of them. I do not see any need of duplication. My second point is more important and it is this. We are framing a Constitution for our country and I do not see that in this Constitution we should provide an entry relating to the United Nations Organization as a permanent part of our Constitution. As we all know the United Nations Organisation has only come into existence about four years back and even now it is not an organization in which all the nations put trust, and I very well know that in spite of its existence the nations are trying to prepare for war and they have no trust that the United Nations Organization can prevent war. If we lay down the United Nations Organization as one of the entries in this List that means that we give to it importance which is not justified by plain facts. It may be that the united Nations Organization may cease to exist tomorrow. It may be that India may desire to leave it and if so what is the sense in keeping this entry in the Union List? I personally feel that entry No. 10 is very comprehensive and it is a matter of foreign policy whether we should continue our membership of the United Nations Organization or whether we should get out of it. So I do not see any reason why we should put this entry in our Constitution. I also personally feel that the experience of India as a member of the United Nations Organization has not been very happy and the amount of expenditure which it has involved was not at all commensurate with the advantages, if any, which we have derived from its membership, and in the Kashmir question, we know that we have not been able to get things settled. In fact it has become more complicated. We had hoped that we will get justice and, instead of that international politics have vitiated the whole thing and we are involved therein.
