Editorial Note

As a result of these diplomatic initiatives, agreement was reached on the text of a draft resolution on the advisory opinion of the International Court regarding South West Africa, and a joint draft resolution was submitted to the Secretariat for Fourth Committee consideration on November 30. Denmark, El Salvador, Iraq, Norway, Peru, Thailand, the United States, and Venezuela were the cosponsoring states. For official text, see GA (V), Annexes, volume I, fascicule on agenda item 35, pages 1 and 2. In the event, this joint draft resolution was never considered by the Committee.

For texts of draft resolutions submitted by other states on this matter, and also on the question of the application of the international trusteeship system to South West Africa, a résumé of the Fourth Committee’s deliberations on these resolutions, and the texts of the two resolutions accepted by the Committee on December 4 and 5, see ibid., “Report of the Fourth Committee,” pages 3 ff. The resolutions endorsed by the Committee were based substantially on the texts described in footnote 2, page 492, although the sponsorship changed. The text of the Committee-approved resolution on the implementation of the advisory opinion is printed infra.

For the summary records of the meetings of the Fourth Committee for the period of its consideration of the South West Africa resolutions, November 30–December 5, see United Nations, Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifth Session, Fourth Committee, pages 319 ff.