501.A Summaries/8–1149: Telegram
The United States Representative at the United Nations (Austin) to the Secretary of State
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By a vote of 9–0, USSR and Ukraine abstaining, the SC Aug. 11 adopted a joint French-Canadian resolution (S/1367) in connection with the report of Acting Mediator Bunche on Palestine. Soviet amendments, reintroduced in a slightly revised version, were all rejected.
The SC also adopted, without opposition, a Canadian-Norwegian draft (S/1362) paying tribute to the work of the late Mediator, the Acting Mediator and members of their staff1
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- For the concluding discussion of Mr. Bundle’s report by the Security Council of August 11, see SC, 4th yr., No.38, pp. 1–14. The text of the Canadian-French resolution is printed infra; that of the Canadian-Norwegian draft is printed as Resolution 72 (1949) in United Nations, Official Records of the Security Council, Fourth Year, Resolutions and Decisions of the Security Council, 1949, hereinafter identified as SC, 4th yr., Resolutions, 1949, p. 7. Senator Austin’s statement supporting the Canadian-French draft resolution and opposing the Soviet amendments is printed in SC, 4th yr., No. 38, p. 5.↩