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The eighth session of the General Assembly, which had recessed on December 9, 1953, to be reconvened if necessary by the President of the Assembly with the concurrence of a majority of United Nations Members to consider the problem of Korea, was formally adjourned at a brief meeting on September 20, 1954.
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Page 57 note 1 Document A/RESOLUTION/200.
Page 58 note 2 For details of the Anglo-French memoran 2 For details of the Anglo-French memorandum, see this issue, p. 59; for information on discussions of the London Sub-Committee, see this issue, p. 158; for discussion of the general question of disarmament at the eighth session of the Assembly, see International Organization, VIII, p. 56–59Google Scholar.
Page 58 note 3 Documents A/2742 and A/C.1/750.
Page 58 note 4 Document DC/53, Annex 9; see below for a description of this memorandum.
Page 58 note 5 For more detailed information on the discussions of the Sub-Committee, see this issue,. p. 158; because of its intimate relation to discussions in the First Committee of the ninth session of the General Assembly, details of the Anglo-French memorandum originally submitted to the Sub-Committee will be given here; information on other memoranda and working papers submitted to the Sub-Committee and mentioned in the course of this summary may be found in this issue, p. 158.
Page 58 note 6 Document DC/53, Annex 3.
Page 58 note 7 ibid., Annex 4.
Page 62 note 8 See this issue, p. 187–191.
Page 62 note 9 Document A/C.l/751.
Page 63 note 10 Document A/C.l/752.
Page 63 note 11 Document A/C.l/752/Rev.2.
Page 63 note 12 Documents A/C.1/L.100 and A/C.l/ L.lOO/Rev.l.
Page 64 note 13 Document A/C.1/L.101.
Page 64 note 14 Document A/C.l/L.101/Rev.l.
Page 64 note 15 Document A/RESOLUTION/216.
Page 64 note 16 For a report on exchanges between the United States and the Soviet Union, see Document A/2738; for a report on negotiations between the United States and other powers, see Document A/2734.
Page 64 note 17 For the statement by President Eisenhower, see General Assembly Official Records (8th session), p. 450–152Google Scholar.
Page 65 note 18 See General Assembly Official Records (9th session), p. 25–26.
Page 66 note 19 The original draft did not specify the membership of the advisory committee; however, the sponsors later suggested Brazil, Canada, Fance, India, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Page 66 note 20 Document A/C.1/L.105.
Page 67 note 21 Document A/C.l/L.105/Rev.l.
Page 67 note 22 Document A/C.1/L.107.
Page 67 note 23 Document A/C.l/L.106/Rev.l.
Page 67 note 24 Document A/RESOLUTION/230.
Page 68 note 25 For a summary of the third report of the Collective Measures Committee, see International Organization, VIII, p. 500Google Scholar.
Page 68 note 26 Document A/RESOLUTION/217.
Page 69 note 27 Document A/C.1/L.109.
Page 69 note 28 See the record of the 92d meeting of the General Committee held on September 22, 1954.
Page 69 note 29 See the record of the 477th plenary meeting held on September 24, 1954.
Page 70 note 30 Document A/C.1/L.110.
Page 71 note 31 Document A/C.1/111.
Page 71 note 32 opposed: Australia, Belgium, Colombia, Denmark, France, Iceland, Luxembourg, Nethy islands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Turkey, Union of South Africa, United Kingdom; Abttained: Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Israel, Nicaragua, Philippines, United States.
Page 71 note 33 For information on consideration of this question at the eighth session of the Assembly, see International Organization, VIII, p. 52–55Google Scholar.
Page 71 note 34 See also Document A/2739.
Page 72 note 35 Document A/AC.76/L.1.
Page 72 note 36 Document A/RESOLUTION/204.
Page 72 note 37 Document A/2723.
Page 72 note 38 For information on discussion at the eighth session, see International Organization, VIII, p. 63–65Google Scholar.
Page 73 note 39 Document A/AC.76/L.3/Rev.l.
Page 74 note 40 Document A/RESOLUTION/218.
Page 74 note 41 For a summary of the report, see International Organization, , VIII, p. 500–501.
Page 74 note 42 For a summary of the debate at the eighth session of the Assembly, see ibid., p. 61–63.
Page 75 note 43 Document A/AC.76/L.4.
Page 75 note 44 Document A/AC.76/L.7/Rev.l.
Page 75 note 45 Document A/AC.76/L.9/Rev.l.
Page 75 note 46 Document A/AC.76/L.13.
Page 75 note 47 “… 2. The Security Council shall hold periodic meetings at which each of its members may, if it so desires, be represented by a member of the government or by some other specially designated representative”.
Page 75 note 48 Document A/AC.76/L.8.
Page 76 note 49 Document A/AC.76/L.10.
Page 76 note 50 Document A/AC.76/L.ll/Rev.l.
Page 76 note 51 Document A/AC.76/L.14.
Page 77 note 52 Document A/RESOLUTTON/228.
Page 77 note 53 General Assembly Official Records (9th session), Supplement 17.
Page 77 note 54 Document A/2727/Add.l.
Page 77 note 55 See International Organization, VI. p. 237–239.
Page 78 note 56 For information on discussion of this problem at the eighth session of the Assembly, see ibid., VIII, p. 65–67.
Page 79 note 57 Document A/AC.76/L.15.
Page 79 note 58 Document A/RESOLUTION/232.
Page 80 note 59 Document A/AC.76/L.16.
Page 80 note 60 Document A/AC.76/L.17.
Page 80 note 61 Document A/RESOLUTION/250.
Page 80 note 62 General Assembly Official Records (9th session), Supplement 16.
Page 80 note 63 For information on the discussion of this question at the eighth session of the Assembly, see International Organization, VIII, p. 67–70Google Scholar.
Page 81 note 64 Document A/AC.76/L.20/Rev.l.
Page 82 note 65 Document A/AC.76/L.21.
Page 82 note 66 Document A/RESOLUTION/260.
Page 83 note 67 See above, p. 79–80.
Page 83 note 68 Document A/AC.76/L.23.
Page 84 note 69 For Committee action on charges of piracy raised in connection with the agenda item alleging aggression against the Chinese People's Republic, see above, p. 82–83.
Page 84 note 70 Document A/AC.76/L.24.
Page 84 note 71 For information on the resolution of the fifth session in question, see International Organization, V, p. 532–534.
Page 85 note 72 Document A/AC.76/L.25.
Page 85 note 73 Document A/AC.76/L.25.
Page 85 note 74 Document A/RESOLUTION/289.
Page 87 note 75 Document A/L.182.
Page 87 note 76 General Assembly Official Records (9th session), Supplement 15.
Page 87 note 77 Document A/C.1/L.112.
Page 87 note 78 Document A/C.1/L.114.
Page 87 note 79 Document A/C.1/L.113.
Page 87 note 80 Document A/C.1/L.115.
Page 87 note 80 For a summary of the Korean phase of the conference, see International Organization, VIII, p. 498–500Google Scholar.
Page 87 note 81 Document A/2786.
Page 88 note 82 For the text of that agreement, see International Organization, VII, p. 612–634.
Page 88 note 83 Document A/C.1/L.116.
Page 88 note 84 Document A/C.1/L.117.
Page 88 note 85 Document A/C.1/L.118.
Page 89 note 86 Australia, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom and United States. The Union of South Africa, which had also contributed military forces to the United Nations Command in Korea, had not participated in the Geneva Conference.
Page 89 note 87 Document A/C.1/L.119.
Page 89 note 88 Document A/C.l/L.121.
Page 90 note 89 For information on discussion at the seventh session of the Assembly, see International Organization, VII, p. 59–60Google Scholar; at the eighth session, ibid., VIII, p. 49–51.
Page 90 note 90 Document A/C.l/L.122/Corr.l.
Page 90 note 91 Document A/C.l/L.123.
Page 91 note 92 Document A/C.l/L.124.
Page 91 note 93 Document A/C.l/L.125.
Page 92 note 94 See above, p. 68–71.
Page 92 note 95 Document A/C.l/L.126.
Page 92 note 96 For discussion of this question at the eighth session of the Assembly, see International Organization, VIII, p. 51–52Google Scholar.
Page 92 note 97 Document A/C.1/L.128.
Page 93 note 98 For the membership of the Security Council for 1955, see p. 52.
Page 93 note 99 General Assembly Official Records (9th session), Supplement 2.
Page 93 note 1 For consideration of this question by the eighth session of the Assembly, see International Organization, VIII, p. 75–80Google Scholar.
Page 93 note 2 For a summary of discussion of this report at the 18th session of the Economic and Social Council, see ibid., p. 521–523.
Page 94 note 3 Document A/C.2/L.226.
Page 94 note 4 Document A/C.2/L.227.
Page 94 note 5 Document A/C.2/L.228 and Add.l.
Page 95 note 6 Document A/C.2/L.230.
Page 96 note 7 Document A/C.2/L.231.
Page 96 note 8 For a summary of this report, see International Organization, VII, p. 532–533.
Page 96 note 9 Document A/C.2/L.233.
Page 96 note 10 Documents A/C.2/L.229 and Rev.l.
Page 97 note 11 Document A/C.2/L.229/Rev.2.
Page 97 note 12 For a summary of this announcement, see International Monetary Fund, International Financial News Survey, VII, p. 166Google Scholar.
Page 98 note 13 Document A/C.2/L.249.
Page 98 note 14 For a summary of the discussion of this resolution in the Economic and Social Council, see International Organization, VIII, p. 361–363Google Scholar.
Page 99 note 15 Document A/C.2/L.225.
Page 99 note 16 Document A/C.2/L.240.
Page 99 note 17 Document A/C.2/L.242.
Page 100 note 18 Document A/C.2/L.243
Page 100 note 19 Document A/C.2/L.241
Page 100 note 20 Document A/C.2/L.241/Rev.l.
Page 101 note 21 Document A/C.2/L.246.
Page 101 note 22 Document A/C.2/L.234.
Page 101 note 23 For a discussion of these reports in the Economic and Social Council, see International Organization, VIII, p. 363Google Scholar.
Page 102 note 24 Documents A/C.2/L.234/Rev.l, Corrs. 1 and 3.
Page 102 note 25 Document A/C.2/L.239.
Page 102 note 26 General Assembly Official Records (9th session), Supplement 3. For a summary of consideration of technical assistance at the eighth session of the General Assembly, see International Organization, VIII, p. 72–75Google Scholar.
Page 102 note 27 For a summary of the resolutions on technical assistance adopted at the 18th and 19th sessions of ECOSOC, see International Organization, VIII, p. 364–365Google Scholar, and ibid., p. 523–524.
Page 103 note 28 For a summary, see ibid., p. 506–508.
Page 104 note 29 Documents A/C.2/L.235 and Add.l.
Page 104 note 30 Document A/C.2/L.235/Rev.l.
Page 104 note 31 Document A/C.2/L.236.
Page 104 note 32 Document A/C.2/L.237.
Page 105 note 33 Document A/C.5/L.302.
Page 105 note 34 Document A/2804.
Page 105 note 35 Document A/C.2/L.250.
Page 106 note 36 For consideration of the question of a world food reserve by FAO, see International Organization, VI, p. 629–630Google Scholar; ibid., VIII, p. 383.
Page 106 note 37 Document A/C.2/L.250/Rev.l.
Page 106 note 38 Document A/C.2/L.250/Rev.2.
Page 106 note 39 General Assembly Official Records (9th session), Supplement 20; for consideration of the third report of the Agent General at the eighth session of the Assembly, see International Organization, VIII, p. 80–81Google Scholar.
Page 107 note 40 Documents A/C.2/L.254 and Add.l.
Page 108 note 41 General Assembly Official Records (9th session), Supplement 3.
Page 108 note 42 Document A/C.2/L.247.
Page 108 note 43 Documents A/C.2/L.253 and Add.l.
Page 108 note 44 For a summary of ECOSOC's action at its eighteenth session, see International Organization VIII, p. 520.
Page 108 note 45 Documents A/C.2/L.248 and Corr.l.
Page 108 note 46 Documents A/C.2/L.252 and Add.l.
Page 109 note 47 For information on this resolution, see International Organization, VIII, p. 520–521.
Page 109 note 48 Document A/C.2/L.256.
Page 109 note 49 Document A/L.186.
Page 109 note 50 For information on ECOSOC's decision, see International Organization, VIII, p. 371–372Google Scholar.
Page 109 note 51 For the membership of ECOSOC for the year 1955, see this issue, p. 52.
Page 109 note 1 For a summary of the report, see International Organization, VIII, p. 502–504; for discussion of the report at the 18th session of the Economic and Social Council, see ibid., p. 528; for discussion of the question of refugees at the eighth session of the Assembly, see ibid., p. 92–93.
Page 109 note 2 Document A/2648/Add.2.
Page 110 note 3 Document A/C.3/L.402.
Page 111 note 4 Document A/C.3/L.403/Rev.3.
Page 111 note 5 Document A/C.3/L.405.
Page 111 note 6 Document A/RESOLUTION/203.
Page 111 note 7 For the draft covenants as approved by the Commission on Human Rights at its tenth session, see Economic and Social Council Official Records (18th session), Supplement 7, p. 62–76. For discussion at the eighteenth session of ECOSOC, see International Organization, VIII, p. 525–526Google Scholar; for information on discussion at the eighth session of the Assembly, see ibid., p. 82–87.
Page 111 note 8 Economic and Social Council Official Records (18th session), Supplement 7, p. 6Google Scholar.
Page 112 note 9 Document A/C.3/L.406.
Page 112 note 10 Document A/C.3/L.408.
Page 112 note 11 Document A/C.3/L.407.
Page 112 note 12 Document A/C.3/L.409.
Page 112 note 13 Texts of this article and articles subsequently cited may be found in the draft covenants as cited above.
Page 113 note 14 See International Organization, V, p. 143.
Page 114 note 15 Economic and Social Council Official Records (18th session), Supplement 7, p. 74–76Google Scholar.
Page 115 note 16 Document A/C.3/L.412.
Page 116 note 17 Documents A/C.3/L.427 and Add.l.
Page 116 note 18 Document A/C.3/L.413.
Page 116 note 19 Document A/C.3/L.414.
Page 116 note 20 Document A/C.3/L.418.
Page 116 note 21 Document A/C.3/L.424.
Page 116 note 22 Document A/C.3/L.410/Rev.4 and corrigenda.
Page 117 note 23 Document A/RESOLUTION/233.
Page 117 note 24 For information on action taken by ECOSOC at its seventeenth session, see International Organization, VIII, p. 366–368Google Scholar; for information on discussion of this question at the eighth session of the Assembly see ibid., p. 87–88.
Page 117 note 25 Document E/2462.
Page 118 note 26 Documents A/C.3/L.448 and Add.l.
Page 118 note 27 Document A/C.3/L.451.
Page 118 note 28 Document A/C.3/L.452.
Page 118 note 29 Document A/C.3/L.449.
Page 118 note 30 Document A/C.3/L.45i/Rev.l.
Page 119 note 31 See above, p. 116.
Page 119 note 32 Document A/C.3/L.454.
Page 120 note 33 Document A/C.3/L.447. The text of the 1936 convention is appended to this document.
Page 120 note 34 Document A/C.3/L.453.
Page 120 note 35 Document A/C.3/L.458. Articles 1 and 3 dealt with broadcasts harmful to good international relations, inciting acts incompatible with the internal security of another state, and endangering good international understanding.
Page 121 note 36 Document A/C.3/L.450.
Page 122 note 37 Documents A/2691 and Adds.l and 2.
Page 122 note 38 Document A/C.3/L.455.
Page 122 note 39 General Assembly Official Records (9th session), Supplement 3, p. 98–99Google Scholar. For information on discussion of the report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Forced Labor at the seventeenth session of ECOSOC, see International Organization, VIII, p. 368–370Google Scholar, and at the eighth session of the Assembly, see ibid., p. 87–90.
Page 123 note 40 Document A/C.3/L.456.
Page 123 note 41 General Assembly Official Records (9th session), Supplement 3, p. 102–103Google Scholar; for information on discussion of this question at the eighteenth session of ECOSOC, see International Organization, VIII, p. 526–528Google Scholar.
Page 123 note 42 Documents, A/C3/L.457 and Corr.l.
Page 124 note 43 General Assembly Official Records (9th session), Supplement 3, p. 73–106Google Scholar.
Page 124 note 44 Document A/C.3/L.432.
Page 124 note 45 Documents A/C.3/L.433 and Adds. 1 and 2.
Page 125 note 1 For a summary of this report, see International Organization, VIII, p. 501–502.
Page 126 note 2 Documents A/C.4/L.333/Rev.l and 2.
Page 126 note 3 Document A/C.4/L.334.
Page 126 note 4 Document A/2747.
Page 127 note 5 Document A/C.4/274.
Page 127 note 6 Document A/2747/Add.l.
Page 127 note 7 Document A/L.178.
Page 127 note 8 A/RESOLUTION/226.
Page 128 note 9 A/RESOLUTION/227.
Page 128 note 10 General Assembly Official Records (9th session), supplement 18.
Page 129 note 11 Document A/C.4/L.343.
Page 129 note 12 Document A/C.4/L.344.
Page 129 note 13 Document A/C.4/L.345.
Page 130 note 16 Document A/C.4/L.349.
Page 130 note 17 Documents A/AC.85/L.155 and Corr.l.
Page 130 note 18 General Assembly Official Records (9th session). Supplement 18, p. 7Google Scholar.
Page 130 note 19 Document A/C.4/L.354.
Page 131 note 20 Document A/C.4/L.358.
Page 131 note 21 See International Organization, VIII, p. 101.
Page 131 note 22 Document A/C.4/L.356.
Page 131 note 23 Document A/C.4/L.359.
Page 132 note 24 For a summary of consideration of these questions by the Trusteeship Council, see International Organization, VIII, p. 547–548Google Scholar; for action taken at the eighth session of the Assembly, see ibid., VIII, p. 104–106.
Page 132 note 25 Document A/2660.
Page 133 note 26 Document A/C.4/L.370.
Page 134 note 27 General Assembly Official Records (9th session), Supplement 4; for consideration of the preceding report by the eighth session of the Assembly, see International Organization, VIII, p. 106–109Google Scholar.
Page 134 note 28 Document A/C.4/L.332.
Page 135 note 29 Document A/C.4/L.366.
Page 135 note 30 For further information, see International Organization, V, p. 105.
Page 135 note 31 Document A/C.4/L.367.
Page 135 note 32 For a summary of consideration of the annual report on Somaliland at the fourteeenth session of the Trusteeship Council, see International Organization, VIII, p. 535–538Google Scholar.
Page 135 note 33 For further information, see ibid., p. 549.
Page 135 note 34 Document A/C.4/L.365.
Page 136 note 35 Document A/C.4/L.378.
Page 136 note 36 Document A/C.4/L.379.
Page 137 note 37 Document A/C.4/L.884.
Page 137 note 38 For a ‘chart showing the membership of the Trusteeship Council, to which no elections were held at the ninth session of the General Assembly, see this issue, p. 52.
Page 137 note 1 For a summary of this report, see International Organization, VIII, p. 504.
Page 137 note 2 For a summary of this report, see ibid., p. 508–509.
Page 137 note 3 See below, p. 142–145.
Page 139 note 4 For a summary of the report of the Committee on Contributions, see International Organization, VIII, p. 505–506.
Page 140 note 6 Document A/C.5/L.296.
Page 140 note 7 Document A/C.5/L.298.
Page 140 note 8 For information on discussion of this question at the eighth session of the Assembly, see International Organization, VIII, p. 112–113Google Scholar.
Page 140 note 9 For a summary of the advisory opinion of the Court, see ibid., p. 555–557.
Page 140 note 10 Document A/C.5/607.
Page 140 note 11 See above, p. 138.
Page 141 note 12 Document A/C.5/L.317.
Page 141 note 13 Document A/C.5/L.322.
Page 142 note 14 Document A/C.5/L.321/Rev.l.
Page 142 note 15 Document A/C.5/L.322/Rev.l.
Page 142 note 16 For further information on the budget estimates, see above, p. 137–138.
Page 142 note 17 For a summary of this report, see International Organization, VIII, p. 553–554.
Page 142 note 18 Document A/2745.
Page 144 note 19 Document A/C.5/L.282/Rev.l.
Page 144 note 20 Document A/C.5/583.
Page 144 note 21 Document A/2765.
Page 145 note 22 Document A/C.5/L.293.
Page 145 note 23 Document A/2777.
Page 145 note 24 Document A/2788.
Page 145 note 25 For information on consideration of personnel policy at the eighth session of the Assembly, see International Organization, VIII, p. 110–112Google Scholar.
Page 146 note 26 Document A/C.5/L.314.
Page 146 note 27 Document A/C.5/L.303/Rev.l.
Page 147 note 28 See documents A/2770, A/2771, A/2772, A/2773, A/2774 and A/2775, respectively.
Page 147 note 29 See documents A/2751, A/2755, A/2769, A/2818, and A/2817, respectively.
Page 148 note 1 For information on the establishment of the special committee at the seventh session of the Assembly, see International Organization, VII, p. 109–111Google Scholar; for a summary of the report, see ibid., VIII, p. 350–351.
Page 149 note 2 Documents A/C.6/L.332 and Rev.l.
Page 149 note 3 Documents A/C.6/L.334 and Rev.l.
Page 149 note 4 Documents A/C.6/L.335 and Rev.l.
Page 150 note 5 Documents A/C.6/L.336 and Revs.l and 2.
Page 150 note 6 Documents A/C.6/L.337 and Rev.l.
Page 150 note 7 For a summary of this report, see International Organization, VIII, p. 510–512.
Page 151 note 8 Documents A/C.8/329 and A/C.6/331.
Page 151 note 9 Document A/C.6/L.330.
Page 151 note 10 See above, p. 148–150.
Page 152 note 11 For information on the establishment of the committee, see International Organization, VII, p. 107–109; for a summary of the report, see ibid., VIII, p. 351–352, in which it was incorrectly reported that the committee rejected a proposal that the proposed international criminal oourt apply national law where appropriate. In fact, the committee rejected an attempt to delete this provision, thus retaining it in the draft statute of the court.
Page 152 note 12 See above, p. 150 and 151.
Page 153 note 13 Document A/C.6/L.430.
Page 154 note 14 For information on decisions of the eighth session of the Assembly on the question of the continental shelf as part of the problem of the regime of the high seas, see International Organization, VIII, p. 116.
Page 154 note 15 Document A/C.6/L.339.
Page 154 note 16 Document A/C.6/L.341.
Page 155 note 17 Document A/C.6/L.342.
Page 155 note 18 Document A/C.6/L.341/Rev.l.
Page 155 note 19 Document A/C.6/L.343.
Page 155 note 20 Documents A/C.6/L.345 and Rev.l.
Page 155 note 21 See above, p. 85, for related decisions of the ninth session of the Assembly.
Page 156 note 22 For the composition of the Court as of February 6, 1955, see above, p. 55.
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