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501.A Summaries/9–2849: Telegram

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

[Extract]
New York, September 28, 1949—11 p. m.

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General Committee (67th Meeting)1

summary

Following statements by China, the USSR, Greece and Poland, the GC Sept. 28 recommended addition to the GA agenda of the new Chinese item concerning violations of the Sino-Soviet Treaty and its allocation to Committee 1. The vote on inclusion was 11–2 (USSR, Poland) with Chairman Romulo (Philippines) not voting. Vishinsky (USSR) charged that the proposed item, which accused the USSR of violating the UN charter, as well as the treaty, was designed to shift the blame for the Kuomintang regime’s “bankruptcy and collapse” to the Soviet Union. Tsiang (China) confined himself to mentioning several of the major provisions of the Sino-Soviet Treaty.

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Austin
  1. For complete record of meeting, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fourth Session, General Committee, pp. 9 ff.↩