Editorial Note
The First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly held three meetings during the morning, afternoon, and evening of Tuesday, January 30; for the records, see United Nations documents A/C.1./SR.436, 437, and 438. At the evening session (8:30–10:25 [Page 149] p. m.), the Committee approved the United States draft resolution (A/C.1/654), as altered by the Lebanese amendments (A/C.1/656), by a vote of 45 in favor to 7 opposed (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Burma, Czechoslovakia, India, and Poland), with 8 abstentions (Afghanistan, Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sweden, Syria, Yemen, and Yugoslavia). Saudi Arabia did not participate in the voting. The First Committee had previously rejected the 12-power Arab–Asian draft resolution, as amended (A/C.1/642/Rev.2), along with several Soviet proposed draft amendments to it. A concise record of the votes is also contained in the Report of the First Committee to the General Assembly, dated January 31, 1951 (A/1770). The resolution forwarded by the First Committee (A/C.1/659) was taken up and approved by the General Assembly without change on February 1; for the text, see page 150.