Editorial Note
At its 24th Meeting, July 29, the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission adopted Working Committee Resolution AEC/C/.1/85 (for partial text, see editorial note, page 65) after having agreed to substitute “Atomic Energy Commission” for “Working Committee” throughout the text. The UNAEC thus concluded that no useful purpose could be served by its further consideration of the Soviet proposals contained in draft resolution AEC/37 (for partial text, see footnote 6, page 37). For the text of the resolution as adopted by the UNAEC, see United Nations, Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifth Session, Supplement No. 2, “Report of the Security Council to the General Assembly Covering the Period from 16 July 1949 to 15 July 1950,” page 32 (hereafter cited as GA(V), Suppl. No. 2), or Documents on Disarmament 1945–1959, volume I, page 198. The vote on the resolution, adopted as AEC/42, was 7–2–2, the Soviet Union and the Ukraine opposed and Argentina and Egypt abstaining.
At the same meeting, the UNAEC adopted United States draft resolution AEC/41 (designated AEC/43 with its approval) by a vote of 9–2 (the Soviet Union and the Ukraine); for text, see page 99.
[Page 103]The two resolutions were transmitted to the Security Council on July 29 as annexes to a letter from the Chairman of the Commission to the President of the Council (S/1377); for text, see United Nations, Official Records of the Security Council, Fourth Year, Supplement for September, October, November and December, 1949, page 8 (hereafter cited as SC, 4th yr., Suppl. for Sept.–Dec., 1949).