No CrossRef data available.
Article contents
General Assembly
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
Extract
The second part of the fifteenth session of the General Assembly met at UN Headquarters from March 7 through April 21, 1961, when it was adjourned.1 Of the 90 agenda items before the fifteenth session, approximately 35 not taken up during the first part of the session were considered during the second part.
- Type
- International Organizations: Summary of Activities: I. United Nations
- Information
- Copyright
- Copyright © The IO Foundation 1961
References
1 For a summary of the first part of the fifteenth session, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 71–165.Google Scholar
2 For the decision of the Assembly on this matter at the first part of the fifteenth session, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 71CrossRefGoogle Scholar; see also ibid., note 1.
3 Document A/4656.
4 Document A/L.335.
5 Document A/L.336.
1 Document A/4515 and Add.1.
2 Document A/4585.
3 Document A/C.1/831. For a summary of the discussion of the draft resolution in the Second Committee, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 110–111Google Scholar, and for the adoption of the draft in plenary, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 115–114.Google Scholar
4 See General Assembly Resolutions 1518 and 1527 (XV), December 15, 1960. For a summary of the discussion of the draft of the former in the Second Committee, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 105Google Scholar, and for the adoption of the draft in plenary, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 109Google Scholar. For the reference to the draft of the latter, see note 3 above.
5 See General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV), December 14, 1960. For a summary of the discussion and adoption of the declaration, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 93–97.Google Scholar
6 Document A/C.1/L.271 and Rev.1.
7 Document A/4747 and Corr.1.
8 See General Assembly Resolution 1378 (XIV), November 20, 1959.
9 For a summary of the discussion of disarmament in the First Committee during the first part of the fifteenth session, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 71–77Google Scholar, and for the adoption in plenary of the draft resolutions recommended to the General Assembly in the First Committee's report, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 77.Google Scholar
10 Document A/C.1/L.267.
11 Document A/4723.
12 Document A/4446.
13 Document A/4466 and Add.1.
14 Documents A/C.1/830 and A/C.1/833.
15 Documents A/C.1/832 and A/C.1/834, respectively.
16 Documents A/C.1/L.268, A/C.1/L.269, and A/C.1/L.270, respectively.
17 Subsequently issued as Document A/C.1/L.272.
18 Subsequently issued as Document A/C.1/L.273.
19 Document A/C.1/838.
20 Document A/4746 and Corr.1.
21 Document A/4537. For a summary of a discussion in the Security Council of previous Cuban complaints against the United States, see International Organization, Spring 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 2), p. 272–273.Google Scholar
22 Document A/4543.
23 Documents A/4581 and A/4701.
24 Document A/4716.
25 Document A/4725.
26 Document A/C.1/L.274.
27 Document A/C.1/L.275.
28 Document A/C.1/L.277.
29 Document A/C.1/L.276.
30 Subsequently issued as Document A/C.1/L.278.
31 Subsequently issued as Document A/C.1/L.279.
32 Document A/4744.
33 Document A/4749.
34 Documents A/4416 and A/4417, respectively.
35 Document A/SPC/L.58.
36 See note 5 above, p. 426.
37 Document A/4718.
38 Document A/4419 and Corr.1 and Adds.1 and 2.
39 Document S/4300. For a summary of the Security Council debate and adoption of the resolution (based on the Ecuadorian draft, Document 8/4299), see International Organization, Summer 1960 (Vol. 14, No. 3), p. 440–441.Google Scholar
40 Document A/SPC/L.59 and Rev.1 and Rev.1/Add.1.
41 These recommendations were among those adopted by the Addis Ababa Conference of Independent African States in June 1960 and mentioned earlier in the debate by Mr. Quaison-Sackey; see above, p. 435.
42 Document A/SPC/L.60 and Corr.1 and Adds.1 and 2.
43 Document A/SPC/L.59/Rev.2.
44 Document A/4728.
45 Discussion of the report was begun by the Special Political Committee during the first part of the fifteenth session; for a summary of the debate, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 86–87Google Scholar. For the report, see General Assembly Official Records (15th session), Supplement No. 14.
46 See General Assembly Resolution 1456 (XIV), paragraph 4, December 9, 1959.
47 See General Assembly Resolution 194 (III), paragraph 11, December 11, 1948.
48 Document A/SPC/L.61 and Rev.1.
49 Document A/SPC/L.62.
50 See General Assembly Resolution 181 (II), November 29, 1947.
51 Document A/SPC/L.63.
52 Document A/SPC/L.64.
53 Document A/SPC/L.65.
54 Document A/SPC/L.61/Rev.2.
55 Document A/SPC/L.65/Rev.1.
56 Document A/SPC/L.66.
57 Document A/4734.
58 Document A/4521.
59 For a summary of the Security Council debate, see International Organization, Autumn 1957 (Vol. 2, No. 4), p. 656–657.Google Scholar
60 Document A/SPC/L.67.
61 Document A/4745.
62 Document A/4391 and Add.1.
63 For a summary of the discussion of this item by the Special Political Committee during the first part of the fifteenth session, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 87–88.Google Scholar
64 Documents A/4751, A/4752, and A/4750, respectively.
65 For a summary of the discussion of this item at the first part of the fifteenth session, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 90–93Google Scholar, and for a summary of a debate in the Security Council see International Organization, Spring 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 2), p. 273–278.Google Scholar
66 Document S/4722. For a summary of the debate on the draft in the Security Council, see International Organization, Spring 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 2), p. 277–278.Google Scholar
67 See Document A/4711, p. 50–51.
68 Document A/L.339 and Adds. 1–5.
69 General Assembly Resolution 1480 (XV), September 20, 1960, admitting the Republic of the Congo (Leopoldville) to membership in the UN.
70 See above, p. 445.
71 Document A/L.340 and Adds. 1–3 and Corr.1, and Add.4.
72 Document A/L.341 and Corr.1.
73 Document A/L.343 and Add.1. For the terms of the 21-power draft (Document A/L.339 and Adds. 1–5), see above, p. 447.
74 Document A/L.342 and Corr.1 and Add.1. For the terms of the seventeen-power draft (Document A/L.340 and Adds. 1–3 and Corr.1, and Add.4), see above, p. 448.
75 Document A/L.346.
76 Document S/4722, paragraph 4; see also note 66, p. 445.
77 Document A/L.347.
78 Document A/L.348.
79 See above, p. 449.
80 See above, p. 447.
81 See above, p. 449.
82 See above, p. 448.
83 Ibid.
84 See above, p. 449.
85 For a summary of a discussion of the situation in Angola in the Security Council, see this issue, p. 492–499, and for a summary of a previous debate in that body, see International Organization, Spring 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 2), p. 278 and 279.Google Scholar
86 In this resolution the General Assembly: I) declared that the subjection of peoples to alien domination and exploitation constituted a denial of fundamental human rights, was contrary to the Charter of the UN, and was an impediment to the promotion of world peace and cooperation; and 2) asked for immediate steps to be taken to transfer all powers to the peoples of those territories. For a summary of the discussion and adoption of the resolution (the draft submitted by 26 African and Asian states), see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), P. 95–97.Google Scholar
87 Document A/L.345 and Adds. 1–5.
1 Document A/4705. For a summary of the discussion of this item in the Fourth Committee at the first part of the fifteenth session, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 132–136.Google Scholar
2 See General Assembly Resolution 1568 (XV), December 18, 1960.
3 See Document A/C.4/L.660. For a summary of the discussion of the draft in the Fourth Committee during the first part of the fifteenth session, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 135.Google Scholar
4 General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV), December 14, 1960. For a summary of the discussion and adoption of this resolution at the first part of the fifteenth session see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 93–97.Google Scholar
5 Document A/C.4/L.653. For a summary of the discussion of the draft in the Fourth Committee at the first part of the fifteenth session, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 134.Google Scholar
6 The draft was re-issued as Document A/C.4/L.671. See note 3 above.
7 For a summary of these proceedings, see this issue, p. 511.
8 Document A/C.4/L.671/Rev.1.
9 Document A/C.4/L.675 and Add.1. Afghanistan and the Sudan were subsequently added to the list of sponsors.
10 See above, p. 453.
11 Document A/C.4/L.675/Rev.1.
12 General Assembly Resolution 1568 (XV), December 18, 1960.
13 Document A/4709.
14 Document A/4721.
15 General Assembly Official Records (15th session), Supplement No. 4.
16 Document A/C.4/446.
17 Document A/C.4/489.
18 Document A/C.4/L.686 and Adds.1 and 2.
19 Document A/4498 and Add.1. For the terms of a draft resolution adopted by the Fourth Committee on this item at the first part of the fifteenth session, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 129Google Scholar, and for its approval in plenary see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 129 and 130.Google Scholar
20 Document A/4738.
21 Document A/4542 and Corr.1. For the discussion and adoption of a draft resolution on this subject at the first part of the fifteenth session, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 129–130.Google Scholar
22 See General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV), December 14, 1960.
23 Document A/C.4/L.673 and Rev.1.
24 Document A/C.4/478.
25 A/C.4/L.673/Rev.2.
26 Document A/4736.
27 See Document A/C.4/478.
28 Document A/4706 and Add.1.
29 General Assembly Resolutions 1579 and 1580 (XV), December 20, 1960. Resolution 1579 dealt with the postponement of the holding of elections, a conference of political parties, a general amnesty, and the setting-up of a United Nations Commission for Ruanda-Urundi. Resolution 1580 dealt with the holding of a referendum on the subject of the Mwami of Ruanda. For a discussion of the future of Ruanda-Urundi at the first part of the fifteenth session including these resolutions, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 137–141.Google Scholar
30 Documents A/4689. A/4690 A/4691, A/4692, and A/4694, respectively.
31 Document A/C.4/471.
32 Document T/PET.3/L.105.
33 Document A/4706.
34 Document A/C.4/L.674 and Add.1.
35 Document A/C.4/475 and Add.1.
36 Document S/4622. For a summary of the Security Council debate on this item, see International Organization, Spring 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 2), p. 273–278.Google Scholar
37 Document A/C.4/L.678 and Add.1. Ceylon and Pakistan later joined as sponsors, and the Ivory Coast withdrew from sponsorship of the draft.
38 Document A/C.4/L.681.
39 Document A/C.4/L.680.
40 Document A/C.4/L.682.
41 Document A/C.4/L.679.
42 Document A/4735.
43 Document A/4741. For the action of the General Assembly on the report of the Fifth Committee, see this issue, p. 487.
44 For a summary of the discussion of this part of the report of the Trusteeship Council in the Fourth Committee during the first part of the fifteenth session see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 141–142.Google Scholar
45 General Assembly Official Records (15th session). Supplement No. 4.
46 Documents A/C.4/483 and A/C.4/479.
47 Document A/4695.
48 Document A/4699.
49 Document A/4726.
50 Document A/C.4/481.
51 Document T/1556 and Appendix 1 and Add.1.
52 The Plebiscite Commissioner's statement was later circulated as Document A/C.4/483.
53 General Assembly Resolution 1350 (XIII), March 13. 1959.
54 Document A/4699.
55 These requests for hearings were contained in Documents A/C.4/445 and A/C.4/469 and Adds.1 to 8.
56 See General Assembly Resolution 1473 (XIV), December 12, 1959.
57 Document A/4699.
58 Document T/1491.
59 See note 51 above.
60 The Plebiscite Commissioner's statement on the two-day plebiscite was circulated as Document A/C.4/485.
61 The statement of the United Kingdom delegate was later circulated as Document A/C.4/491.
62 The position of the Nigerian government on the question of the Cameroons was set forth in a letter from the permanent representative of Nigeria to the Chairman of the Fourth Committee and circulated as Document A/C.4/481.
63 See note 53 above.
64 Document A/C.4/L.685 and Add.1. At the 1150th meeting the Federation of Malaya and Liberia joined as sponsors of the draft, bringing the number of sponsors to fourteen.
65 Document A/C.4/L.684.
66 Document A/C.4/L.684/Rev.1.
67 Document A/C.4/T.684/Rev.2.
68 Document A/4737.
69 Document A/4742. For the action of the General Assembly on the report of the Fifth Committee, see this issue, p. 487.
1 For a summary of the discussion of the draft in the Fifth Committee and its adoption in plenary, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 148–149Google Scholar. For a summary of the debate on the agenda item as a whole, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 147–149.Google Scholar
2 Document A/C.5/860.
3 Document A/C.5/L.657.
4 Document A/4703.
5 Document A/4713.
6 Document A/C.5/L.658 and Corrs.1 and 2.
7 Document A/C.5/L.663.
8 Document A/C.5/L.663/Rev.1.
9 Document A/C.5/L.664.
10 Document A/C.5/L.668.
11 Document A/C.5/L.667. For the terms of the four-power revised draft, see above.
12 Document A/C.5/L.665/Rev.1.
13 See above, p. 484.
14 Ibid.
15 Ibid.
16 Document A/4740.
17 See above, p. 484.
18 Document A/4715.
19 Document A/C.5/L.662.
20 Document A/C.5/L.662/Rev.1.
21 Document A/4739.
22 Documents A/4741 and A/4742, respectively.
23 For the report of the Fourth Committee, sec Document A/4735. For a summary of the discussion of the draft in the Fourth Committee, see this issue, p. 472–473, and for its adoption in plenary, see ibid., p. 473.
24 For the report of the Fourth Committee, see Document A/4737. For a summary of the discussion of the draft in the Fourth Committee, see this issue, p. 479–480 and for the action of the Assembly on the matter in plenary, see ibid., p. 480–481.
25 For the reports of the Fifth Committee containing recommendations for these appointments, see Documents A/4729 and A/4730, respectively.
26 Document A/4731. For a summary of the discussion of the Joint Staff Pension Fund in the Fifth Committee at the first part of the fifteenth session, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 151–153.Google Scholar
27 For the report of the Fifth Committee, see Document A/4657, and for the decision of the Assembly at its 954th plenary meeting, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 158.Google Scholar
28 Document A/4623.
1 For a summary of the elections to the Economic and Social Council at the first part of the fifteenth session, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 114.Google Scholar
2 For a summary of the discussion of the resolution as a draft in the Second Committee, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 106Google Scholar, and for the adoption of the draft in plenary, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), P. 109.Google Scholar
3 Document A/4683.
4 Document A/L.337.
5 See ECOSOC Resolution 807 (XXX), December 22, 1960. For a summary of the discussion of the agreement in the Economic and Social Council, see International Organization, Spring 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 2), p. 280–281.Google Scholar
1 United Nations Review, 05 1961 (Vol. 8, No. 5), p. 12–14Google Scholar, and United Nations Press Releases LV/2, March 2, 1961–LV/38, April 18, 1961.
2 General Assembly Resolution 1450 (XIV), December 7, 1959. For a summary of the discussion resulting in the adoption of this resolution, see International Organization, Winter 1960 (Vol. 14, No. 1), p. 183–185.Google Scholar
3 The New York Times, April 20, 1961.Google Scholar
4 General Assembly Resolution 1504 (XV), December 12, 1960.