Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949, The Near East, South Asia, and Africa, Volume VI

Editorial Note

On September 16, 1949, the United Nations Special Committee on the Balkans completed and signed in Athens a Supplementary Report covering the period of August and early September. The Report called attention to the virtual elimination of guerrilla warfare along the northern Greek frontiers, to the fact that large numbers of guerrillas had fled across the frontiers, especially into Albania, and to the closing by Yugoslavia of its frontiers with Greece. The Committee also made ten recommendations to the General Assembly. For the text of the Report, U.N. doc. A/981, September 19, 1949, see United Nations, Official Records of the General Assembly, Fourth Session, First Committee, Annex, page 1. For the text of the recommendations of the Committee, see Department of State Bulletin, October 17, 1949, page 488.