Read the passage from Eleanor Roosevelt’s speech on the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The statement of the Soviet delegate here tonight is a very good c…

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Read the passage from Eleanor Roosevelt’s speech on the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The statement of the Soviet delegate here tonight is a very good case in point on this. The Soviet amendment of article 22 introduces new elements into the article without improving the committed text and again introduces specific reference to "discrimination." As was repeatedly pointed out in committee 3, the question of discrimination is comprehensively covered in article 2 of the Declaration, so that its restatement elsewhere is completely unnecessary and also has the effect of weakening the comprehensive principles stated in article 2. The new article proposed by the Soviet delegation is but a restatement of State obligation, which the Soviet delegation attempted to introduce into practically every article in the Declaration. It would convert the Declaration into a document stating obligations on states, thereby changing completely its character as a statement of principles to serve as a common standard of achievement for the members of the United Nations.

Who is Roosevelt’s main audience for this passage?

a three-member committee
the UN General Assembly
Soviets living in the US
the Soviet delegation