S/PV.324 Security Council

The Rapporteur of the Committee of Experts presented the preliminary report to the Security Council at its last meeting on t!tis. subject. Discussion is now open on the prelunmary report. . Mr. TARASENKO (Ukrainan Soviet Socialist Republic) (translated trom Russian): The idea Article 83 of the United Nations Charter states: -"AlI funetions of the United Nations re1ating to strategie areas, including the approvaI of the terms of the trusteeship agreements and of their aIteration or amendment, shall be exercised by the Sccurity Counci1." \ It seems to me that rights of the Becurity Counci1 in these matters are set forth here very clearly, eXT\1icitIy and categoricaIly. That is not surprising fûr the question of strategie areas under trusteeship is 'S,,:parated from the generaI trusteeship system be~aune of the peculiar characteristics of those areas. Otherwise there would have been no sense in dividing the."le Territories into t'Wo categories, and entrusting one category to the Security Council. .. Only the Security Council itself ean decide how, in what fOrIn, when and under what conditions the Trusteeship Council should he consulted when some concrete case involving a strategie area is being settIed. But the dominant theme of the report before us is that the whole responsibility should, properly speaking, be laid upon the Trusteeship Council, which is a flagrant contradiction of the terms of the United Nations Charter. In fact, the intention of the draft resolution presented by the Tru!ltc.~.hip Council [document T/116] is to arrogate the whole responsibility in such matters to itself. The resolution proposes the establir.hment of a committee on a parity basis eomposed of representatives of the Trusteeship Council and the Security Council, to settIe this question. This suggestion is quite unnecessary, superfluous and illc;:gaI, as the Security Council is competent to decide such matters for itself. That is my first comment. My second comment is this. What matters is not the various r,nades of meanillg that may 6e read into some article or other of the United Nations Charter-in this case Article 83-or the fact that some members of the Committee of Experts interpreted it in one way or some in another. The nuances in the interpretation of this Article of the United Nations Charter are beside the point. . In my opinion, the question is entirely a different one. What matters is that there exists a tendency--shown aIso in the work of the Committee of Experts-to curtail the rights and authority of the Security Council in relation to the question of strategie areas under trusteeship. To put it frank1y, it does not suit the interests of certain Governments to have the Security Council 1 think this reflccts a desire to restrict the rights and obligations of the Secudty Council in respect of strategie areas under trusteeship, but 1 would go further and say that thi& seems to me to be part of a general effort to curtail the rights of t.i.e Security Council. We are witnesshg an attack on the Security Council. We are witnessing the efforts of certain circles in a numuer df States to n,iuc:e the authority of the Security Council and to àeprive it of a number of essential rights granted ta it by the United Nations Charter. This is, 1 believe, part of a general effort to weaken the United Nz.tions as a whole, for by weakening the rights and aut.hority of the Security Council we shaH weaken the rights and authority of the United Nations. For that reason, the question is an exceptionally important one of principle. We are ~ot concerned here with technical discu:;;sions about this or that Article of the United ~;J'ations Charter, about the various shades of ineaning which emerged when the question was discussed by the Committee of Experts, but with the fact that certain circles in certain Stat'~s are endeavouring to curtail the rights and the authority of the Security Council, a situation which .was .reflected in the Committee of Experts. In the present case, these endeavours concern the questions before us, but it is also a most important question of principle. Those are the observations 1 wished to make before any definite decision is taken in the matter. Mr. GROMYKO (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) (translated from Russian): The Committee of Experts has devoted several meetings to the consideration of this question, but has unfortunately not been able to adopt an agreed resolution. Consequently, two draft resolutions have been submitted to us: one approved by a majority of the Committee, and 'the other, originally proposed by the representative of Poland, approved by the minority. The fact that there are two draft resolutions before us is no mere accident. It is the result of a difference of approach to the question under consideration, the question of the Iunctions to be exercised by the Security Council in respect of strategie areas. Therepresentative .of the Ukrainian SSR has already called attention to the main Article of the Charter on which we must base our decision on this question, namely, Article 83, which states We are '\ow discussing the question of who is to exercise sorne of the functions re1ating to strategie areas set out in Articles 87 and 88 of the United Nations Charter. Article 87 deals with the consideration of reports submitted by the Administering Authority, the acceptance of petitions and their examination in consultation with the AdministerL.'1g Authority, periodic visits to the respective Trust Territories, and certain other actions. Article 88 deals with the formulation of a special questionnaire (~on the political, economic, social and educational advancement of the inhabitants of each Trust Territory . . .". This Article deals with Trust Territories in general, which is the reason for the words "each Trust Territory"; in other words all these functions must be exercised in respect of strategic areas as well. The only difference is that in the case of the strategic areas such functians must be exercised by the Security Council; this, as 1 have already pointed out, is plaînly stated in Article 83. If that is nl;lt enough there is another Article in t.qe Charter, Article 85, which could leave no doubt at all-should ~ny dOllbts remain about the exact functions of the Security Council under Article 83-that these functions can he exercised oilly by the Security Council. Article 85 defines the territories with regard ta which the Trusteeship Council lB to exercise its functions. Paragraph 1 of this Article reads as follows. "The functions of the United Nations with regard to trusteeship agreements for all areas not designated as strategic"-I repeat, not designated as strategic-"including the approval of the terms of the trusteeship agreements and of their alteration or amendment, shall be exercised by the General Assembly." Further, paragraph 2 of this Article indicates that the Trusteeship Council shall in practice carry out these functions under the authority of the General Assembly. It is thus c1early defined which of the organs of the United Nations is to exercise the functiolls in question. The definition is a twofold one. One article states over which areas the Security Council is to exercise these functions; they are the There would seem to be no possibility of confusion. The situation seems perfectly clear. Nevertheless, from the very beginning, since the question was first discussed by the Committee of Experts in connexion with the Agreement with the United States of America as the Administering Authority of the former Japanese mandated islands-an Agreement approved by the Sec.. .urity Council-serious divergences of opinion have arisen. These divergences are not fortuitous. They can be explained only by the fact that certain States, in particular the Umtecl ~Jtates of America, want to divest the Security Councll of sorne of its functions and transfer them ta the Trusteeship Council. This is not the first time such a situation has arisen. Attempts have been made to transfer certain rights and functions of the Security Council to the General Assembly. In the prese~+ case the intention is to curtail the rights of l.h~ Security Council by transferring them to the Trusteeship Council, without any solid reason and in contradiction of the perfectly dear prov~ions of the Charter. That can be Î."lterpreted only as meaning tl1at the Government of the United States, in disregard of the provisions of the United Nations Charter, is opposed to having the Security Council exercise its functions in respect of strategie areas of which, by virtue of the above-mentioned Agreement, the United States is the Administering Authority. In my opinion, however, the Security Council should not let itself be guided in sueh questions by the willingness or unwillingness of any country to observe the Charter. The Charter must be observed by aU. But there ,is still another document which shows how untenable is the position taken on this question by the Government of the United States and by the majority of the Committee of Expertti, influenced by the United States representatives. That is the Agreement with respect to these strategie areas, in which nothing is said about the Trusteeship Council. The Agreement states that functions in respect of those areas shall he exercised by the Security Council, a provision which is in conformity with the Charter. There is not one W01"d concerning the Trusteeship Council. It is not even mentioned. It is true that paragraph 3 of Article 83, to which 1 have alread)' referred, reads as follows: "The Security Council shall, subject to the provisions of the trusteeship agreements and without pre.iudice to security considerations, avail itself of the assistance i of the Trusteeship Council to perform those functions of the United Nations under the trusteeship system relating to d~cide that the Trusteeship' Council shalI, on behalf of the Security Council-which are the very words used in the m~Ljority resolutionperform the functions of the latter. That puts the matter in an en,tirely different light. That is why the USSR l'epresentatives in the Comrmttee of Experts insisted that the Security Council, and only that Council, must exercise, on the basis of the United Nations Charter, the functions in respect of strategic areas with which it alone has been entrusted, and that the question (lf calling on the services of the Trusteeship Council could arise ouly in concrete cases, when the Security Council decided that it might be advisable ta have sorne specifie task performed by the Trusteeship Council. There can be no decision involving a wholesale transfeT of functians of t.l-te Security Council ta the Trusteeship Council, for such a decision would be illegaI. The same applies to the questionnaire which must be prepared so that the Security Council and consequently the United Nations may have sorne idea of the manner in which the provisions of the Charter were complied with in the fields of the economic, cultural and' ducational development of the population of the strategic areas. The questionnaire of which 1 am speaking must also be formulated by the Security Council. Why ,is the proposai that the Committee of Experts should devote two, three or four weeks ta the preparation, of such a questionnaire inacceptable? The Committee of Experts is not overburdened; it has time enough ta perform this task. 1here is no need for us to draw up the questionnaire here, at meetings of the Security Council. It may be said that there exists a Questionnarre formulated by the Trusteeship Council for other territories. True, such a Questionnaire does exists. The Security Council and the Committee of Experts may make use of that Questionnn..ire of the Trusteeship Council prepared for other territories; they may take whatever is, applicable ta strategic areas ançl use it in a manner appropriate ta the specifie character of the functions ta be exercised by the Security Council in respect of strategie areas. There can be nothing Inacceptable in such a proposaI. The objections. raised against it, mainly by the Government of Be"ling themselves on all these considerations, the USSR representatives from the very first upheld the proposaI made in the Committee of Experts by the representatives of Poland. The ~0[ish draft resolution is appended to ~e r:.port as Annex 1. In the opinion of the USSR delegatian, it is fully in conformity with Articles 83, 85, 87 and 88 of the CÎlarter and with aIl the 9ther provisions of the Charter relating to strategic'areas under trusteeship. It affords sufficient legal protection, under the Charter, to the interests of the Administering Authority, and does not encroach upon the rightS of, that authority. Nor does it in the least encroach upon the rights of the Government, of the United States in respect of these aH·as. At the same time, this proposaI is in full accordance with the provisions of the Charter, and consequently, does not encroach ur-ùn the rights of the United Nations or the Security CounciI. F:or this reason the USSR delegation continues to support the draft resolution proposed by the Polish delegation in the Committee of Experts, and sees no grounds for the view of sorne delegations that this resolution is inacceptable. l should like to know what is inaccept:!l.ble in it, what there is in it that contradicts the Charter. and in what ffi".l.nner it jeopardizes the interests ~f the United Sl~'l, . Govemment. Of COlllBe, if the United States Goverment intends to violate the C~arter and ignore the Security Council in this question, that is an alto- . gether different matter. It migH be best if it said so openly. But, as l have mentioned, we cannot he guided by the willingness or unwillingness of any country to comply with the Charter. Our' attitude must he that it is absolutely essential to . comp!y with the provisions of the Charter, especIally when we are dealing with questions which, in the opinion of the USSR delegation, merit the close attention of the Security Council. The question of strategie areas and t:.e functions in respect of these areas to he exerdsed by the Security Council constitute such a question.

Since there are no speakers on my list, the situation now is that there are two draft resolutions [document 8/642J before the Security Council, one of them from the majority of.the.Committee of Experts and another by the nunonty. The minority resolution was submitted ?y one member of the Committee of Experts, but It was alao supported by the representative of the senté "Noting that the Security Council is giving consideration to the relationship bctween the Security Council and the Trusteeship Council in regard to trusteeship of strategie areas, "Resolves that a committee of three, composed of the Pre..'Ùdent and two other representatives 01 the Council to be appointed by him, be author- ized to confer with the President or a similar committee of the Security Council with a view to assuring that, before the Security Council makes a final decision on the arrangements to be made with regard to the functions of the Trustee- ship Council in respect of strategie areas under trusteeship in relation to the political, socin.1. economic and educational advancement of the inhabitants, the responsibilities of the Trustee- ship Council be fully taken into account." Since the draft resolution prepared by the Committee of Experts transfers to the Trustee- ship Council certain authority and certain duties and responsibilities under Article ,87 and 88 of the Charter, which concern the strategie areas, to be taken up on behalf of the Security Council by the Trusteeship Council, 1 think that before we reach any final decision the Security Council should confer with the Trusteeship Council and reach an understanding. Perhaps the Trusteeship Council would not be prepared to accept such responsibilities as stated in the draft resolution prepared by the Committee of Experts. In that draft resolution the first paragraph states: "1. That the Trusteeship Council be re- quested, subject ta the provisions of Trusteeship Agreements or parts thereof in respect of strategie areas, and subject to the decisions of the Security Council made havmg regard to security consid- erations from time to time, to perform in accord- ance with its own procedures, on behalf of the Security Council, the functions specified in Articles 87 and 88 of the Charter relating to the political, economic, social and educational advancement of the inhabitants of such strategie areas." .1 think it would be proper to meet the reprc- sentatives of the Trustee~hip Council in accord- ance with the request of that Council before we take a final decision, sa that the Security Council Ml'. JESSUP (United States of America): It seems to me that the suggestion which the Presi~ dent has made in regard to complying with the request of the TrusteeshipCouncil is a wise one. He has pointed out that we hav~ before us the draft resolution proposed by the Committee of Experts and a draft resolution :proposed by the delegation of Poland. In the draf~ resolution proposed by the Committee of Experts wc find that at the outset the language of paragraph 3 of Article 83 of the Charter is quoted. This con~ tains the mandatory language that "The Security Council shall . . . avail itself of the assistance of the Trusteeship Council ..." In the draft resolution submitted by the rep- resentative of Pola.ld, paragraph 1 of Article 83 is refcrred ta. Both paragraphs, of course, are part of the Article. In bath of these proposaIs there is dear indication, and 1 understand that this is not denied in any quarter, that there must be relationship between'the Security Council and the Trusteeship Council in regard to these areas which are under discussion. It would therefore seem quite appropriate to have some joint discus- sion between the Security Council and the Trusteeship Council. Moreover, since, as the President has pointed out, the President of the Trusteeship Council has officially transmitted a resolution requesting such consultation, it would seem, as the President said, . the courteous thin~ to respond to that invitation. 1 would assllme that if such a committee as is suggested is appointed by the Security Council to mect with a similar committee of the Trustee- ship Council, the President might consider it desirable to have such' a committee composed of the President of the Security Council-as the President of the Trusteeship Council is a mem- ber of their commiftee-of the Rapporteur of the Committee of Experts which has submitted the resolution before us, and of a representative of the minority point of view reflected in the report of the Committee of Experts. It seems to me that a committee of three so composed might usefully exchange views with the committee of the Trusteeship Council and that their report to us might enable us to move forward advantageously with the final decision on the problem before \1S. The discussion with the cammittce of the Trusteeship Cauncil \Vould certainly bear on paragraph 3 of Article 83. This parngraph states) in part) that, IIThe Sccul'Îty Council shaH . . . nvaU itself of the assistance of the Trusteeship Council ta perfarm those functions ...u 1 tl:ink) as the matter is stated in paragraph 3 of Article 83, that it is not very clear in what way such assistance would be obtained, and how agreement between the Sccurity Coundl and the Trustecship Cauncil should be nchicved in that respect. 1 think the matter of the extent of the assistance and the manner in which it should be obtained should he clarified. 1 believe it would be helpful to have this meeting with the reprcsentatives of the Trustee- ship Council before we go forward. If there is no objection to this procedure 1 shan consider it adopted and we shaH proceed accordingly. Ml'. GROMYKO (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) (translated from Russian): The resolution adopted by' the Trusteeship Council on 16 December 1947 in the main l'eflects the same policy as that contained in the majority . proposaI of the Committee of Experts. This resolution is aimed at the curtailment of the rights of the Security Council and at the cor- responding and illegal increase of the rights of the Trusteeship Council in respect of strateRic areas. rt is stated in this resolution that the Trustceship Counci! would like to diseURS this whole question with the Security Council. The question of strategie are~,.; is to be discussed with the Security Council on. a basis of paritv, This resolution is contrary to the United Nations Charter. The necessary functions in respect of strategie areas must be exercised ouly by theSecurity Council. Even the majority in the Committce ot Experts agree that the Trusteeship Council must be caHed in by the Security Council to pcrform these functions in respect of strategic areas. Yet the Trusteeship Council not only takcs the ini- tiative but passes a resolution pointing out to the Security Council that the latter cannot take a decision in these matters without the participa- tion of the Trusteeship Council. That is, to say the least, a rather immodest position for the Trusteeship Council to take. The Security Coun- cil cannot discuss this question with the Trustee- va de dre sans moins de Le l should like ta mention in passing that, as you know, this resolution was adopted by the Trusteeship Council without the participation of the USSR repl'esentative, who did not have an 0ppOl·tunity to state his view on the proposal and in general on proposaIs of this kind. We cannot accept this resolution, and canscquently the pro~ posaI it cantains, that the Security Cauncil should set up sorne sort of committee which would begin negotiations with a Trusteeship Council com~ mittee on, as l have explained, a basis of parity. That would be a violation, in particu~~r, of Ar~ ticle 83 of the Charter, which entrusts the exercise of SllCh functions to one organ of the United Nations and one organ only-the Security Council. Sir Alexander CADOGAN (United Kingdom): l think we may aIl be at cross purposes) ta some extent, on this question) owing to an unfortunate conflict between the various versions of the Char- ter. In regard to pro:agraph 3 of Article 83, l listened to the speech of the USSR representative in tlIe French interpretation, and the French interpretation represented him as reading out paragraph 3 of Article 83 as being: "The Security Council may . . . avail itself of the assistance of the Trusteeship Council ...u l believe, in fact, that is what the Russian version of the Charter does say. On the other hand) the English version reads: "The Security Council shall . . . avail itself of the assistance of the Trusteeship Council ...u . ment foi That is plainly mandatory. The French version is similar. It uses "aura recourl). Therefore) plainly, there is a conflict between these various versions of the Charter. It is quite true that Article 111 of the Charter says: "The present Charter, of which the Chinese, French, Russian, English, and Spanish " ".ts are equally ~'lthentic ...u But a: the same time, if we do find a direct conflict between two or more translations of the Charter, it is necessary to try to redoncile that conflict. The only way, of course, in which that Therefore, it does look as if there Was some failure to adjust the Russian translation roter that change had been made, a change which was desired by the Conference itself. 1 only mention that historical point because 1 think that in some of the discussions to which 1 have listened this morning, there has arisen some misunderstand- ing, owing to the difference in these two versions. But 1 think that, in view of the facts which 1 have quoted, we can take it that the English and French texts are what was intended: that is ta say, "The Council shall ... avail itse1f of the assistance of the Trusteeship Council ...u Ml.'. GROMYKO (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) (translated trom Russian): In con- nexion with Sir Alexander Cadogan's last obser- vation 1 should like to make the following st~tement: The Russian text of the Charter reads: "The Security Council, subject ta the provi- sions of the Trusteesilip Agreements and without prejudic~ to security considerations, avails2 itself of the assistance of the Trusteeship Council 'ta perform those functions ...u and sa on. There is no element of obligation in.me words: Cl••• avails it.self of the assistance.of the Trustee- ship Council ta perform those functions ...u The Security Council is not compel1çd ta avail itself of the assistance of the Trusteeship Council, ta say nothing of continuous assistance. The Charter does not impose any such obligation. Sir Alexander points out that the French text runs differently. 1 understood that the French text said much the same as the Russian text. In anycase, 1 think ordinary common sense tells us that, in sa far as assistance ta the Security Coun- cil on the part of the Trusteeship Couneil is concerned, that assistance cannat be forced upon us; what sort of assistance would it be if it were sa forced, if the Security Council were compelled by the Charter to accept it? That would no longer be a question of assistance, but of an obligation on the part of the Security Coun- cil. But there is no question of obligation here. It is clear from this Article that the Security Couneil itself shall decide whether or not such . assistance is necessary, and, if necessary, then 1 See Documents of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, 1945. Even if we take the English tcxt, it docs not oblige the Sccurity Council to calI upon the Trusteeship Council. Even experts in the English language are agreed that no obligation is in- volved. Sir Alexander is whispering into my ear that it obliges the Security Council to avail itse1f of the assistance of the Trusteeship Council) but that does not follow from the Charter. Ml'. DE LA TOURNELLE (France) (translated trom French):' l should not like to cause even the slightest hurt to Ml'. Gromyko's feelings, but l can assure him that in the French text the words "aura recours" forma1ly express an obliga- tion and that there is no escape·whatsoever from this obligation. If the authors of the text had wished to give it another meaning, they would have used the ~xpression "pourra avoir recourl' which means "may have recourse" or "aura recours à son gré" which means "sha1l have recourse at its discretion" but, as the text stands) it means the Security Council is obliged to have recourse to the assistance of the Trusteeship Council. Ml'. ARCE (Argentina) (translated tram Span- ish): l hesitate less to speak now that our dis- cussion has turned from political questions to lexicography, because in purely political discus- sions there is. always the danger that someone may sec in the actions of smal1er and medium- sized Powers an attempt ta follow any one of the big Powers, something the Argentine delega- tian does not, now or ever, intend ta do. We have heard sorne very remarkable things heretoday. So distinguished and intelligent a man as the representative of the USSR spoke of the impossibility of putting the Security Coun-. cil and the Trusteeship Council on an equal footing. One might almost think that it had been a question of comparing' the sea-power of Brit- ain, which has always been mistress of the seas, with that of Bolivia, which perhaps has a ship on Lake Titicaca. One would say that was im- possible. But that is not the question; we are in the United Nations and there is no reas for makbg comparisons or distinctions. The L.lar- ter established the respective organs for the various functions of the United Nations" as stated in Article 7: "1. There are established as the principal organll of the United Nations: a General As- sembly, a Security Council, an Economic and Social Council, a Trusteeship Council, an Inter- national Court of Justice, and a Secretariat." 1 am not trying ta criticize the view or con- victions on that point of the representative of the USSR, but am simply explaining the situa- tion as 1 see it.We, the United Nations, are called upon ta work for the peace and security of the world, for the unity of nations, and not ta pit sorne of them against others; likewise, we are not supposed ta pit sorne organs of our organiza- tian against others in matters of competence and ')uperior category. One might almost think, in this case, that it is not a question of the Trustee- ship Council intending ta take sorne function away from the Security Council, but of the latter wishing ta assume more functions than it is entitled ta. 1 read the Charter and found the English text perfectly clear although, oddly enough, it is a language which after Russian and Chinese 1 know least of aIl. 1 believe it is better ta read the Charter only in one language, because' when 1 try ta compare versions in different languages, 1 am not quite sure as ta their meaning in view, of course, of slight differences in forro. The Char- ter states· quite definitely that the Trusteeship Council was created for the control of the trustee-, ship system, whenever appropriate, under the authority of the General Assembly in sorne cases, and under the Security Council's in others. The members of the Trusteeship Council are our specialists in matters of trusteeship and we can have recourse ta them without any reason for jealousy between organs or members of the United Nations. And all of this reminds me of the case of a warship which went out ta sea ta take part in a naval battle. Everything, of course, depended tipon the ship's captain, but during the battle We sec such strange things nowadays that 1 wished to say these few words, even at the risk of making enemies all around me, in order to see whether it might not be possible sometimes in the United Nations to face realities and to think more of the general good than of ourselves. That is our mission. Article 24 bf the Charter makes that clear when it savs that the Members of the United Nations conf~rred on the Security Coun- cil primary responsibility for the maintenance of ~nternational peace and security and agreed that lt aets on behalf of the United- Nations, and not on behalf of certain countries.

1 did not think that the proposaI 1 made would meet with any opposition ?ecause 1 explained clearly my intention in hav-·· -mg sorne conversations with the President of the Trusteeship Council and on what basis those conversations would be held. 1said that they were soulève que dent points Now we have sueh a case before us. We should like ta avail ourselves of the assistance of the Trusteeship Couneil. We have ta confer with the Trusteeship Couneil ta find out ta what extent we can avail ourselves of their assistance and in what they would give assistance to the Seeurity Couneil. Would we delegate certain funetions; or would we simply ask their advice; or would we avail ourselves of their assistance in sorne other way? 1 do not think that this would impede or infringe on the responsibilities and prerogatives of the Security Couneil. For this reason 1 suggested that we should meet the committee of the Trusteeship Council. 1 could have met the President of the Trusteeship Council myself and spoken ta him without any resolution or agreement from the Seeurity Couneil. 1 eould have done that and then told the Security Couneil, what agreement we had reached, but 1 thought that, as long as the Trusteeship Council had made their request in a formaI way, it would be better ta have a formaI resolution here and ta have sorne of the members of the Security Council accompany me. 1 do not consider these conversations as conferences or as anything official. They would simply be an effort ta get sorne understanding on the subject. As there has been a certain amount of opposition, 1 will put the question ta the vote unless the representative of the USSR would agree that we follow this procedure without the necessity for a vote. Does the representative of the USSR wish ta comment on this? Ml'. GROMYKO (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) (translated trom Russian): 1 do not Quite know what the President expects of me. 1 have stated my position as regards the resolution of the Trusteeship Couneil. 1 do not know whether this resolution, or rather, the proposaI to set up a committee, will be put to the vote. In any case, whether or not the proposaI is voted on, 1 cannot accept it. 1 consider it inappropriate for reasons which 1 have already indjcated. .

It was not intended to vote on the resolution of the Trusteeship Council, but simply to authorize the President of the Security Cauncil, with two members, to converse with the President of the Trusteeship Council on this subject in order to obtainan explanation of the We shall now vote on the proposal to authorize the committee to proceed in the manner stated. A vote was taken by a show of hands, as fol-' lows: In favour: Argentina, Belgium, Canada, China, Colombia, France, Syria, United King- -dom, United States of America. Abstaining: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist' Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The proposaI was adopted by 9 votes to none, with 2 abstentions.

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