501.BC/4–946: Telegram
The United States Representative at the United Nations (Stettinius) to the Secretary of State
urgent
[Received 7:36 p.m.]
49. For Byrnes and Acheson from Stettinius. Following is an unofficial text of a letter from the Iranian Ambassador reportedly submitted to Lie April 9. Official text81 will be sent as soon as available, but had not been submitted to the International Secretariat by 6:30 p.m., April 9.
“Sir: Permit me to thank you for your note of April 8, 1946 forwarding for my Government a copy of Mr. Gromyko’s letter of April 6 requesting that the question brought to the attention of the Security Council by Iran be removed from the agenda.
I am instructed to state that the position of the Iranian Government remains the same as stated to the Security Council in the meeting of April 4, 1946. It is the desire of my government that the matter referred by Iran to the Security Council remain on its agenda as provided by the resolution adopted on April 4, 1946.
Hussein Ala.”
- For the official text, see SC, 1st yr., 1st ser., supp. 2, p. 47.↩