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brilliantly and courageously as the United Nations Mediator in Palestine. We pay tribute also to those who have lost their lives in the service of peace.

We believe that the General Assembly should give sympathetic consideration to the suggestions of the Secretary-General for the establishment of a small United Nations guard force to assist United Nations missions engaged in the pacific settlement of disputes. The fate of the Mediator in Palestine and the experience of the several commissions already working in the field have already demonstrated the need for such a group. This great world organization should not send its servants on missions of peace without reasonable protection. The guards would be entirely distinct from the armed forces envisaged under article 43 and would not carry out military operations. They could, however, perform important services in connection with United Nations missions abroad not only as guards but as observers and as communications and transportation personnel.

APPENDIX II

SELECTED RESOLUTIONS OF THE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

A. Resolutions Adopted at the First Part of the Third Regular Session

1. Appeal to the Great Powers To Renew Their Efforts To

Compose Their Differences and Establish a Lasting Peace

[After noting in its preamble the purposes and aims of the United Nations, observing that these aims cannot be attained so long as World War II remains in process of liquidation and so long as the peace treaties have not been concluded, and directing attention to the concern of the peoples of the world at the existing disagreements among the Great Allied Powers, the resolution recalls and endorses the Yalta declaration and recommends that the Powers signatory to the Moscow agreements of December 24, 1945, redouble their efforts for a speedy conclusion of all the peace settlements, associating with them the states which adhered to the Washington declaration of January 1, 1942.

This resolution was unanimously adopted on November 3.]

1. WHEREAS it is the essential purpose of the United Nations to maintain international peace and security and to that end it must coordinate its efforts to bring about by peaceful means the settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace,

2. WHEREAS the United Nations should be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of this common end,

3. WHEREAS the United Nations cannot fully attain its aims so long as the recent war remains in process of liquidation and so long as all the peace treaties have not been concluded and put into force,

4. WHEREAS the Great Allied Powers, which bore the heaviest burden in the war and whose common sacrifice and effort were the prime cause of victory, have reaffirmed, on many solemn occasions, their determination to maintain and strengthen in the peace that unity of

purpose and of action which has made possible the victory of the United Nations,

5. WHEREAS the aforementioned Allied Powers, which undertook at the second Moscow Conference responsibility for drafting and concluding the peace treaties, have not been able, after three years of effort, to obtain the full realization of their high mission by building a just and lasting peace,

6. WHEREAS the disagreement between the said Powers in a matter of vital importance to all the United Nations is at the present time the cause of the deepest anxiety among all the peoples of the world, and 7. WHEREAS the United Nations, in the performance of its most. sacred mission, is bound to afford its assistance and co-operation in the settlement of a situation the continuation of which involves grave dangers for international peace,

The General Assembly

1. Recalls the declarations made at Yalta on 11 February 1945 by Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, in which the signatories

"reaffirm our faith in the principles of the Atlantic Charter, our pledge in the Declaration by the United Nations, and our determination to build in co-operation with other peace-loving nations a world order under law, dedicated to peace, security, freedom and the general well-being of all mankind”,

and proclaim that

"only with continuing and growing co-operation and understanding among our three countries, and among all the peace-loving nations, can the highest aspiration of humanity be realized-a secure and lasting peace which will, in the words of the Atlantic Charter 'afford assurance that all the men in all the lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear and want" ";

2. Endorses these declarations and expresses its convictions that the Great Allied Powers will, in their policies, conform to the spirit of the said declarations;

3. Recommends the Powers signatories to the Moscow Agreements of 24 December 1945, and the Powers which subsequently acceded thereto, to redouble their efforts, in a spirit of solidarity and mutual understanding, to secure in the briefest possible time the final settlement of the war and the conclusion of all the peace settlements;

4. Recommends the aforementioned Powers to associate with them, in the performance of such a noble task, the States which subscribed and adhered to the Washington Declaration of 1 January 1942.

2. Control of Atomic Energy

[This resolution takes into account the work of the Atomic Energy Commission, as set forth in its first, second, and third reports, and approves certain recommendations of the Commission as constituting the necessary basis for an effective system for international control of atomic energy. The Assembly expresses concern at the impasse in the work of the Commission and requests its six permanent members (China, France, United Kingdom, United States, U.S.S.R., and Canada) to meet for consultation to determine whether there exists a basis for agreement on the international control of atomic energy and to report on the results of their consultations to the General Assembly at its next regular session. Finally, the Atomic Energy Commission is requested to resume its sessions and to proceed to the study of such of the subjects on its work program as it considers practicable and useful.

This resolution was adopted by a vote of 40 to 6, with 4 abstentions, on November 4.]

The General Assembly,

HAVING EXAMINED the first, second and third reports of the Atomic Energy Commission which have been transmitted to it by the Security Council in accordance with the terms of General Assembly resolution 1 (I) of 24 January 1946,

1. Approves the General Findings (part II C) and Recommendations (part III) of the first report and the Specific Proposals of part II of the second report of the Commission as constituting the necessary basis for establishing an effective system of international control of atomic energy to ensure its use only for peaceful purposes and for the elimination from national armaments of atomic weapons in accordance with the terms of reference of the Atomic Energy Commission;

2. Expresses its deep concern at the impasse which has been reached in the work of the Atomic Energy Commission as shown in its third report and regrets that unanimous agreement has not yet been reached; 3. Requests the six sponsors of the General Assembly resolution of 24 January 1946, which are the permanent members of the Atomic Energy Commission, to meet together and consult in order to determine if there exists a basis for agreement on the international control of atomic energy to ensure its use only for peaceful purposes and for the elimination from national armaments of atomic weapons, and to report to the General Assembly the results of their consultation not later than its next regular session;

4. Meanwhile,

The General Assembly,

Calls upon the Atomic Energy Commission to resume its sessions, to survey its programme of work, and to proceed to the further study of such of the subjects remaining in the programme of work as it considers to be practicable and useful.

3. Prohibition of the Atomic Weapon and Reduction by One Third of the Armaments and Armed Forces of the Permanent Members of the Security Council

[This resolution, which grew out of a Soviet proposal for prohibition of the atomic weapon and reduction by one third of the armaments and armed forces of the permanent members of the Security Council, notes the desirability of making possible a general reduction of armaments but considers such a reduction impossible so long as each state lacks authenticated information concerning the armaments of other states and except in an atmosphere of improvement in international relations, including an effective system for the control of atomic energy. It accordingly recommends that the Security Council pursue its study of the regulation and reduction of conventional armaments through the Commission on Conventional Armaments and requests the Commission to devote first attention to formulating proposals for the receipt, checking, and verification by an international organ within the framework of the Security Council of full information on armed forces and conventional armaments to be supplied by members. The Security Council is invited to report on its action under the resolution to the next regular session of the General Assembly.

This resolution was adopted by a vote of 43 to 6, with 1 abstention, on November 19.]

The General Assembly,

DESIRING to establish relations of confident collaboration between the States within the framework of the Charter and to make possible a general reduction of armaments in order that humanity may in future be spared the horrors of war and that the peoples may not be overwhelmed by the continually increasing burden of military expenditure,

CONSIDERING that no agreement is attainable on any proposal for the reduction of conventional armaments and armed forces so long as each State lacks exact and authenticated information concerning the conventional armaments and armed forces of other States, so long as no convention has been concluded regarding the types of military forces to

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