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Consideration of the Problem of Voting in the Security Council by the Ad Hoc Political Committee of the General Assembly (1948)*

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The problem of voting in the Security Council was referred to the Interim Committee by the General Assembly in 1947 for study and a report. The Interim Committee’s report was submitted to the General Assembly and considered by its Ad Hoc Political Committee at the first part of the third session (1948) in Paris.

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Research Article
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , April 1949 , pp. 303 - 311
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1949

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Footnotes

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Prepared at the editor’s request by Mr. Eric Stein, Division of United Nations Political Affairs, Department of State, and Mr. James N. Hyde, United States Mission to the United Nations. The opinions in the note are the personal and unofficial views of the writers.

References

1 See this Journal, Vol. 42 (1948), pp. 887-895, for a note in this department fully covering the consideration of this subject in the Interim Committee.

2 U.N. Doc. A/578, July 15, 1948.

3 U.N. Doc. A/792, Report of Ad Hoc Political Committee, Dec. 10, 1948.

4 U.N. Doc. A/AC.18/SC.3/3, March 26, 1948.

5 U.N. Doc. A/AC.24/20, Nov. 26, 1948.

6 U.N. Doc. A/AC.24/SR.20, Dec. 4, 1948, pp. 4-14 (summary of speech by Mr. Vyshinsky).

7 U.N. Doc. A/A0.24/SR.24, Dec. 7, 1948, pp. 9-13.

8 U.N. Doc. A/AC.24/SR.17, Dec. 2, 1948, p. 15 (summary of speech by Mr. Hsu).

9 Note 2 above. The list of procedural decisions prepared by the Interim Committee (with one omission) annexed to the joint resolution does not contain one category, namely, the decision regarding the preliminary question as to whether or not a certain matter is procedural. Under Part II, paragraph 2 of the Four-Power Statement, this decision itself is non-procedural. In this connection, the Security Council’s proceedings in the Czechoslovak case are of interest. See this Journal, Vol. 43 (1949), pp. 134-144, for a note in this department entitled “The So-called ‘Double Veto,’ “ in which this case is discussed in detail.

10 Note 6 above.

11 U.N. Doc. A/AC.24/SR.17, Dec. 7, 1948, p. 3 (summary of speech by Mr. Ugon).

12 U.N. Doc. A/AC.24/SR.17, Dee. 3, 1948, p. 7 (summary of speech by Mr. Cohen).

13 U.N. Doc. A/AC.24/SR.25, Dec. 6, 1948, p. 3 (summary of speech by Sir Alexander Cadogan).

14 Note 13 above.

15 U.N. Doc. A/AC.24/33, Dec. 1, 1948.

16 The Committee rejected the Australian amendment by 22 votes to 9, with 10 abstentions.

17 Note 6 above.

18 Note 12 above.

19 Note 11 above.

20 Note 6 above.

21 Note 12 above.

22 U.N. Doc. A/AC.18/54, March 30, 1948.

23 U.N. Doc. A/AC.24/31, Dec. 1, 1948.

24 U.N. Doc. A/AC.24/SR.22, Dec. 6, 1948, p. 6 (summary of speech by Mr. Arce).

25 U.N. Doc. A/AC.24/34, Dec. 2, 1948.

26 U.N. Doc. A/AC.24/SR.25, Dec. 6, 1948, pp. 16, 18.