Editorial Note
The United Nations Security Council met on August 3 from 3 to 6:40 p. m.; for the record, see U.N. document S/PV.482. The debate continued to revolve around the procedural question of the adoption of the agenda. A Soviet proposal to include the question of representation of the People’s Republic of China failed by a vote of 5 in favor (India, Norway, United Kingdom, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Yugoslavia) to 5 opposed (China, Cuba, Ecuador, France, and the United States), with 1 abstention (Egypt). Another Soviet proposal to place on the agenda an item entitled “Peaceful Settlement of the Korean Question” was defeated by a vote of 3 in favor (Egypt, India, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) to 7 opposed (including the United States), with 1 abstention (Yugoslavia). Thus, the agenda adopted contained one item, as moved by the United States Representative, “Complaint of Aggression Upon the Republic of Korea”. The vote on this motion was 8 in favor (including the United States) to 1 opposed (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), with 2 abstentions (India and Yugoslavia).