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501.BC Greece/5–1347: Telegram

The Secretary of State to Mr. Mark F. Ethridge, at Geneva

Washington, May 13, 1947.

369. For Ethridge. SC on May 121 voted 8–0 with USSR, Poland and Syria abstaining, to invite Balkan Commission’s chief delegates, or alternates, to come to New York in connection with Commission’s report. Consideration of 4-point USSR resolution,2 was postponed until May 16. Under this resolution, SC would limit Subsidiary Group to carrying out and reporting on each separate Commission-ordered investigation of facts. Group’s headquarters would be Athens and its functions would be limited to those assigned by Commission. It would cease activity with termination of Commission, and Commission would redefine Group’s terms of reference in accord with this proposed SC resolution.

Verbatim SC minutes follow by pouch.

Marshall
  1. For discussion by the Security Council on that day, see SC, 2nd yr., No. 39, p. 825.↩
  2. For text, see ibid., p. 832.↩