Office of the Historian

501.BB/12-1346: Telegram

Senator Austin to the Secretary of State

urgent
New York, December 13, 1946—1 a.m.
[Received 1:21 a.m.]

962. Following is text of resolution approved by subcommittee of Committee I to replace resolution on reports on troops:67

“The GA

Desirous of implementing, as soon as possible, the resolution of the … Dec 1946 on the principles governing the regulation and reduction of armaments,

Calls upon the SC to determine, as soon as possible, the information which the states members should be called upon to furnish, in order to give effect to this resolution.”

Austin

  1. The General Assembly had discussed the report of the First Committee on the question of the presence of United Nations forces in non-enemy territories at its 52nd Plenary Meeting, December 8, and at its 53rd and 54th Meetings, December 10. In regard to the report which contained the resolution originally adopted, see telegram 865, November 27, from New York, p. 1067.

    At its 54th Meeting, the General Assembly referred the First Committee’s report to Subcommittee 3 of the First Committee. The Subcommittee, unable to arrive at a text acceptable to both the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom, concluded that the resolution it had drafted on the regulation of armaments had dealt adequately with the question of United Nations troops on non-enemy territories and therefore recommended that the resolution providing for reporting on troops originally approved by the First Committee be replaced by the text contained in the present telegram. The Soviet representative opposed the decision. For the text of the report of Subcommittee 3 on troop information reporting, see GA(I/2), First Committee, p. 334. The First Committee adopted the substitute resolution at its 44th Meeting, December 13. For the report of the First Committee to the General Assembly, see GA(I/2), Plenary, pp. 1506–1507. The General Assembly approved the present text at its 63rd Plenary Meeting, December 14.

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