October 8-General Assembly approves protocol bringing under international control drugs outside the scope of the convention of July 13, 1931, for limiting the manufacture and regulating the distribution of narcotic drugs. October 19-Security Council directs the Jews and Arabs to negotiate on disposition of forces in the Negeb and on solution of outstanding problems there and outlines specific steps designed to make the work of the United Nations and Truce Commission personnel in Palestine more effective. November 4-General Assembly approves the general findings and recommendations of the Atomic Energy Commission and calls upon the Commission to resume its sessions. November 4-Security Council calls on interested Governments in Palestine to withdraw their forces to the October 14 positions (the Acting Mediator being authorized to establish provisional lines beyond which no movement of troops shall take place) and to establish permanent truce lines in Palestine, and appoints a Committee of the Council for Palestine to advise the Acting Mediator and report to the Council, if necessary, on further measures it would be appropriate to take under chapter VII of the Charter. November 16-Security Council calls upon Jews and Arabs in Palestine to negotiate directly or through the Acting Mediator for immediate establishment of an armistice. November 18-General Assembly approves agreements between the United Nations and the Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization and the International Refugee Organization. November 27-General Assembly directs the United Nations Special Committee on the Balkans to continue its work and calls upon Albania, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia to cooperate with it. November 30-Security Council President appoints a Committee of Neutral Experts on Berlin Currency and Trade to make recommendations to the President on the most equitable conditions for agreement among occupying powers on currency and import-export regulations. December 3-General Assembly re-establishes the Interim Committee with slightly broader functions. December 9-General Assembly approves the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide. December 10-General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. December 11-General Assembly establishes a Conciliation Commission for Palestine composed of France, the United States, and Turkey. December 12-General Assembly recognizes the established Government of the Republic of Korea and establishes a Commission on Korea to replace the Temporary Commission. December 24-Security Council orders cease-fire in Indonesia and release of Indonesian officials. December 29-Security Council calls upon the Israelis and Egyptians to cease fire in the Negeb, to implement the November 4 resolutions and instructions of the Acting Mediator, and to facilitate supervision of the truce by United Nations observers; instructs the Committee of the Council to meet January 7 to report on the extent to which the Governments concerned have complied with the November 4 and 16 resolutions and this resolution; and calls on governments represented on the Conciliation Commission to appoint representatives. 825285°-49- -20 APPENDIX VII DOCUMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS ABOUT THE UNITED NATIONS United Nations Documents and Publications The United Nations documentation policy provides that the most important of the United Nations records shall be printed in the official languages: French, English, and Spanish (which also are the working languages), Chinese, and Russian. The published documents include the resolutions of the principal organs, verbatim records of the Security Council and the General Assembly plenary meetings, summary records of the meetings of the General Assembly committees and meetings of the Economic and Social Council, summary records of the Trusteeship Council (except when verbatim records are deemed essential), the most important proposals discussed by the major organs, and the major reports submitted for their consideration. These are now consolidated in the Official Record series for each organ, with reports as supplements thereto. In practice, the budgetary limitations for editorial and translating staff and printing have considerably delayed publication of official records. In addition to the Official Record series, the United Nations is currently making available certain publications in the following categories: general United Nations information (delegation lists, rules of procedure); economic and financial studies; economic and stability and employment studies; economic development studies; economic reports (economic surveys on various areas of the world, etc.); trade. finance, and commercial studies; reports of the Economic Commission for Europe; studies on public health, social welfare, legal affairs, trusteeship, non-self-governing territories, political affairs, transport and communications, atomic energy and armament control, international administration (international civil service, relations with specialized agencies); narcotic drugs studies; education, scientific and cultural reports; studies on demography, human rights, relief and rehabilitation; fiscal affairs and statistical reports. The printed publications of the United Nations may be purchased through the United Nations sales agent, the International Documents Service, Columbia University Press, 2960 Broadway, New York 27, N. Y. Upon request to that agent, the United Nations Publications Catalog may be obtained, which contains a list of the documents for sale by the United Nations, with a brief description of each item. During 1948, in response to requests from libraries and scholars throughout the world, the United Nations arranged to sell to the public at cost at an annual rate the mimeographed documents which are produced by the various United Nations organs. Over-all subscriptions may now be entered for all of the unrestricted mimeograped documents in one language for $225. Other subscriptions may be entered for documents by organs according to the following schedule: plenary documents of the General Assembly ($30); documents of the committees of the General Assembly ($65) ; plenary documents of the General Assembly and of the committees of the General Assembly ($75); documents of the Economic and Social Council ($30); documents of the commissions of the Economic and Social Council ($90); documents of the Economic and Social Council and the commissions of the Economic and Social Council ($100); documents of the Security Council ($100); documents of the Trusteeship Council ($30). Orders and inquiries for the mimeographed documents of the United Nations should be addressed only to the Sales Section, Department of Public Information, United Nations, Lake Success, N. Y. Depository libraries have been established throughout the world for United Nations documents. 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