Hostname: page-component-74656f9884-rdgjk Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-11-09T11:01:10.714Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

General Assembly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Get access

Extract

The third regular session of the General Assembly met at the Palais de Chaillotin Paris from September 21 to December 12, 1948, to consider an agenda of 7 items.

By a vote of 31 to 20, Herbert V. Evatt (Australia) was elected president of the Assembly on the second ballot over Dr. Juan Bramuglia (Argentina); and the following were elected chairmen of the main committees: political and security committee, Paul-Henri Spaak (Belgium); economic and financial committee, Hernan Santa Cruz (Chile); social, humanitarian and cultural committee, Charles Malik (Lebanon); trusteeship committee, Nasrollah Entezam (Iran); administrative and budgetary committee, Dana Wilgress (Canada); and legal committee, Ricardo Alfaro (Panama).

Information

Type
International Organizations: Summary of Activities: I. United Nations
Information
International Organization , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , February 1949 , pp. 46 - 85
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1949

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

1 Document A/P.V.136.

2 Document A/P.V.158.

3 See International Organization, II, p. 505.

4 The five permanent members of the Security Council and Canada.

5 Documents A/690 and A/P.V.157. For text of resolution see this issue p. 211.

6 Document A/C.l/808.

7 Document A/C.l/310.

8 Documents A/C.1/SR.144 to A/C.1/SR.152.

9 Documents A/C.1/SR.152 and A/C.l/153.

10 For discussions in subcommittee, see documents A/C.l/A.III/SR.l to A/C.1/A.III/SR.7.

11 Document A/C.l/A.III/5.

12 Document A/C.1/SR.165.

13 Document A/P.V.157.

14 Documents A/722 and A/P.V.167.

15 Document A/658.

16 Document A/C.l/SC.12/4.

17 Documents A/C.1/SR.153 to A/C.1/SR.169; A/C.1/SR.196 to A/C.1/SR.199, passim. Editor') Comnote: Only the briefest summary is possible here. The debate covered a wide range, including extensive quotations from publicists and officials of Soviet and Western countries, and at times, bitter charges of a personal nature.

18 Documents A/C.l/318, A/C.l/319, A/C.l/ 320, A/C.l/321/Corr.l and A/C.l/323. It should be noted that El Salvador proposed that the work of the Atomic Energy Commission and the Comnote: mission on Conventional Armaments be turned over to the former inasmuch as the Soviet resolution had recognized the close connection of the two problems. The draft was subsequently withbitter drawn. Document A/C.1/356.

19 Document A/C.l/356.

20 Document A/722.

21 Document A/P.V.163.

22 Documents A/574, A/644 and A/692. The last two comprise supplements carrying the report of the committee through October 22, 1948. For previous summaries of the work of UNSCOB see International Organization, II, p. 294–6 and 486–7.

23 Document A/574.

24 Document A/644.

25 Document A/574, Annex IV.

26 Document A/728.

27 Document A/C.l/352.

28 Document A/C.l/358/Corr.l.

29 Documents A/C.1/357, A/C.l/359, A/C.l/ 381, A/C.l/362, A/C.l/363, A/C.l/368, A/C.l/ 375, A/C.l/354/Rev.l and A/C.l/378.

30 Document A/C.1/SR.177.

31 One exception to this refusal was noted by UNSCOB and referred to in committee discussions as a hopeful sign: the willingness of Bulgaria to permit one of its officers to discuss an alleged violation by Greece of border arrangements at Evros.

32 Document A/C.1/SR.179.

33 Document A/728.

34 Document A/728/Corr.l.

35 Document A/P.V.167.

36 Document A/P.V.165.

37 New York Times, December 15, 1948.

38 Documents A/C.l/344 and A/P.V.154.

39 Document A/648.

40 For action taken on refugees in Palestine, see this issue p. 72.

41 Document A/C.l/394.

42 See documents A/C.l/397/Rev.l, A/C.l/ 396, A/C.l/396/Add.:, and A/C.l/400.

43 Document A/C.1/SR.203.

44 Document A/C.1/SR.200.

46 Document A/C.l/402. For discussion see A/C.1/SR.202 through A/C.1/SR.210.

46 Document A/C.1/SR.206.

47 See document A/C.l/403.

48 Document A/776.

49 Document A/P.V.184.

50 See this issue, p. 97–8.

51 Document A/P.V.186.

52 Document A/575.

53 Document A/C.l/SR.230–236, passim.

54 Document A/P.V.187.

55 Document A/608. For a summary of the report of Subcommittee 4 of the Interim Committee which in substance closely paralleled the final report of the committee itself, see International Oranization, II, p. 484.

58 Document A/AC.24/SR.2.

57 Ibid.

58 Document A/AC.24/SR.5.

59 Document A/740.

60 Document A/P.V.169.

61 Document A/AC.24/33.

62 Document A/578. For excerpts from the report of the Interim Committee, see this issue, p. 190–201.

63 Document A/AC.24/20.

64 Document A/AC.24/SR.17.

65 Document A/AC.24/SR.18.

66 Documents A/AC.24/34 and A/AC.24/SR. 20.

67 Document A/792.

68 For previous discussion in the Security Council on admission of new members, see International Organization, I, p. 90 and 503; II, p. 90, 315 and 503; and in the General Assembly, see ibid., II, p. 63 and 478. See also this issue, p. 112.

69 Documents A/617, A/618, A/586. For excerpts from the advisory opinion of the Court. see International Organization, II, p. 568.

70 Document A/AC.24/SR.7.

71 Ibid.

72 Document A/AC.24/SR.9.

73 Document A/AC.24/SR.11.

74 Document A/761.

75 For debate in the General Assembly on the question, see documents A/P.V.175 to A/P.V.177.

76 Document A/P.V.177.

77 For a complete list of members of the Security Council for 1949, see this issue, p. 41.

78 Document A/711.

79 Documents A/737 and A/P.V.170.

80 Document A/P.V.149. For list of ECOSOC members see this issue, p. 41.

81 Document A/C.2/SR.69.

82 Document A/P.V.165.

83 Document A/756.

84 Document A/P.V.177.

85 Document A/712.

80 Document A/727.

87 Document A/P.V.160.

88 Document A/P.V.161.

89 Document A/714.

90 Documents A/710 and A/P.V.160.

91 Document A/782.

92 Document E/1065.

93 Documents A/C.3/SR.88 to 116, A/C.3/SR. 119 to 170, and A/C.3/SR.174 to 178.

94 Document A/C.3/SR.92, p. 7–9.

95 Documents A/C.3/SR.94 and A/C.3/SR.95.

96 Document A/C.3/SR.108, p. 8–9.

97 For text see document E/800.

98 Document A/C.3/372.

99 Document A/C.3/373.

100 Document A/C.3/SR.163.

101 Document A/C.3/SR.178 and A/777.

102 Document A/P.V.183. For text of the declaration see this issue, p. 202–5.

103 Document A/C.3/SR.87.

104 Documents A/689, A/689/Add.l and A/ C.3/SR.108.

105 Document A/C.3/337.

106 Document A/C.3/SR.136.

107 Document A/726.

108 Document A/P.V.163.

100 See this issue, p. 120.

101 Document A/763.

111 Document A/767.

112 For summary of the activities of the Trusteeship Council see this issue, p. 130–5.

113 Documents A/C.4/SR.62 and A/C.4/SR.64.

114 Document A/P.V.159.

115 Document A/720.

116 Document A/C.4/SR.73.

117 Document A/P.V.160.

118 Document A/720.

119 Document A/593.

120 Ibid., p. 21–3.

121 Document A/C.4/SR.58.

122 Ibid.

123 Document A/C.4/SR.59.

124 For list of territories on which information was transmitted see summaries and analyses of disinformation transmitted: for 1946, United Nations publication 1947.VI.B.1; for 1947, United Nations publication 1948.VI.B.1.

125 Document A/C.4/SR.60.

126 Document A/P.V.155.

127 For summary of Trusteeship Council discussion on South West Africa, see this issue, p. 133. For previous General Assembly considerations see International Organization, I, p. 69–70, II, p. 72.

128 For opening South African statement, see document A/C.4/SR.76.

129 Editor's note: The debate, which centered mainly around the policies of the new Malan government in South Africa, reached a point where the South African representative was censured for remarks concerning internal government in the USSR and personal attacks against the Indian representative. Documents A/C.4/SR. 80 and A/C.4/SR.81.

130 Document A/C.4/163/Corr.l.

131 Document A/C.4/164.

132 Document A/P.V.164.

133 Document A/627.

134 Documents A/655 and A/676.

135 Document A/797.

136 Documents A/665 and A/706.

137 Document A/C.5/252.

138 Document A/P.V./171.

139 These two items arose out of the displacement of Mr. Papánek as Czechoslovak representative to the United Nations, and the Czechoslovak question in the Security Council. See Intertional Organization, XI, p. 311–4 and 489–91.

140 Discussions in the committee raised a number of interesting questions concerning the role of individuals in United Nations bodies, the rights of the committee to call an individual to testify, etc. See documents A/C.5/SR.119 through A/C.5/SR.123.

141 Document A/ P.V.151.

142 Document A/P.V.188.

143 Document A/P.V.159.

144 For discussion of these items, see this issue, p. 136–8.

145 For text of the Convention on Genocide see this issue, p. 206–9.

146 Document E/794.

147 Document A/C.6/SR.133.

148 Document A/760.

149 Document A/P.V.179.

150 Document A/674. This item arose out of casualties among United Nations personnel sent to supervise the truce in Palestine.

151 Document A/749.

152 Document A/787.

153 Documents A/630 and A/C.6/210.

154 For elections in the Security Council, see this issue, p. 111. For complete list of judges of the International Court, see this issue, p. 45.

155 For these conditions see this issue, p. 111.

156 Document A/748.

157 Document A/P.V.172.