Foreign Relations of the United States, 1947, The Near East and Africa, Volume V

501.BB Palestine/11–2947: Telegram

The United States Representative at the United Nations (Austin) to the Secretary of State

New York, November 29, 1947—6:10 p. m.

1271. The GA adopted at 5:35 p. m., November 29 the Ad Hoc Committee report on partition of Palestine 33–13 with ten abstentions and Siam absent.¹ Opposing partition were: Afghanistan, Cuba, Egypt, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey and Yemen; abstaining were: Argentina, Chile, China, Colombia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Honduras, Mexico, UK and Yugoslavia. On the nomination of Chairman Aranha (Brazil), the following members were elected without objection to the UN Palestine Commission: Bolivia, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Panama and Philippines.

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1. For the text of the General Assembly resolution, see United Nations, Official Records of the General Assembly, Second Session, Resolutions, 16 September–29 November, 1947. For a description of the meeting of the General Assembly on November 29, see telegram 1274, December 1, from New York, p. 1293.