November 24-December 6-Second Session of Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East. November 29-General Assembly approves plan for future government of Palestine. December 2-17-Second Session of Commission on Human Rights meets at Geneva. December 3, 1947-February 16, 1948-Trusteeship Council Working Committee meets at New York to prepare a draft statute for the City of Jerusalem. 1948 January 5-First meeting of Interim Committee (Little Assembly) February 2-March 11-Sixth Session of Economic and Social Council. February 10-March 10-Second Part of Second Session of Trusteeship Council meets at New York. February 19-March 6—United Nations Maritime Conference at Geneva drafts constitution for the Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization. March 17-Security Council decides to consider case of Czechoslovakia. March 23-April 21-United Nations Conference on Freedom of Information meets at Geneva. April 1-Security Council requests Secretary-General to convoke a special session of the General Assembly to consider further the question of the future government of Palestine. April 5-May 10-Ad Hoc Committee on Genocide meets to prepare draft convention on genocide. April 5-23-Third Session of Social Commission. April 7-World Health Organization is formally established as twenty-seventh nation ratifies its constitution. April 12-20-Second Session of Transport and Communications Commission meets at Geneva. April 16-May 14-Second Special Session of General Assembly considers question of future government of Palestine. April 19-May 6-Third Session of Economic and Employment Commission. April 23-Security Council establishes Truce Commission to assist it in supervising the implementation of its resolution of April 17 calling upon all persons and organizations in Palestine to cease all military activities. April 26-May 8-Third Session of Economic Commission for Europe meets at Geneva. April 26-May 6-Third Session of Statistical Commission. May 3-22-Third Session of Narcotics Commission. May 10-United Nations Temporary Commission on Korea observes elections in Southern Korea. May 10-25-Third Session of Population Commission. May 14-General Assembly resolution provides for United Nations Mediator on Palestine and relieves Palestine Commission of its responsibilities under the resolution of November 29, 1947. May 17-Atomic Energy Commission concludes that no useful purpose can be served by carrying on further negotiations at the Commission level and recommends that its conclusions be transmitted to the General Assembly. May 22-Security Council calls upon all governments and authorities to abstain from any hostile military action in Palestine and issues cease-fire order. May 24-June 18—Third Session of Human Rights Commission. May 29 Security Council calls upon all governments and authorities concerned to order a cessation of all acts of armed force in Palestine for a period of four weeks. June 1-12-Third Session of Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East meets at Ootacamund, India. June 1-21-Second Assembly of International Civil Aviation Organization meets at Geneva. June 7-25-First Session of Economic Commission for Latin America meets at Santiago. June 15-First meeting of United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan. June 16-August 5-Third Session of Trusteeship Council meets at New York. June 17-July 10-Thirty-first General Conference of International Labor Organization meets at San Francisco. June 24-July 24-First Assembly of World Health Organization meets at Geneva. July 15-Security Council orders cease-fire and truce of indefinite duration in Palestine, to be effective July 18, 1948. July 15-October 31-United Nations Trusteeship Council Mission visits Tanganyika and Ruanda-Urundi. July 19-August 29-Seventh Session of Economic and Social Council meets at Geneva. August 13-United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan issues to Governments of India and Pakistan a proposal for a cease-fire order in Jammu and Kashmir, followed by a truce agreement and establishment of the future status of Jammu and Kashmir in accordance with the will of the people. August 19-Security Council reaffirms cease-fire order in Palestine and states that no party is entitled to gain military or political advantage through violation of the truce. August 24-Economic and Social Council negotiates agreement between the United Nations and the International Refugee Organization. August 26-Economic and Social Council transmits to General Assembly draft Universal Declaration of Human Rights. August 26-Economic and Social Council transmits to General Assembly draft convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide. August 27-Economic and Social Council negotiates agreement between the United Nations and the Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization. August 28-Economic and Social Council transmits to General Assembly draft conventions on freedom of information contained in final act of United Nations Conference on Freedom of Information. September 16-December 29-Security Council meets at Paris (returns to Lake Success January 10). September 21-December 12-First Part of Third Regular Session of General Assembly meets at Paris. 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. 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