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The seventh regular session of the General Assembly opened on October 14, 1952, and elected as its President Mr. Lester B. Pearson of Canada. Representatives of China, Egypt, France, Honduras, USSR, United Kingdom and United States were elected vice-presidents of the session, and chairmen of the committees of the Assembly were elected as follows: Political and Security Committee, Joāo Carl Muniz (Brazil); Economic and Financial Committee, Jiri Nosek (Czechoslovakia); Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee, S. Amjad Ali (Pakistan); Trusteeship Committee, Rodolfo Muñoz (Argentina); Administrative and Budgetary Committee, Carlos P. Romulo (Philippines); Legal Committee, Prince Wan Waithayakon (Thailand). The session also established an Ad Hoc Political Committee, with Alexis Kyrou (Greece) as its chairman. General debate extended from the 382d meeting on October 16 to the 385th meeting on October 20.

Type: International Organizations: Summary of Activities: I. United Nations
Information: International Organization , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , February 1953 , pp. 51 - 118

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818300021573 [Opens in a new window]
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^{page 51 note 1} Document A/2227, October 18, 1952.

^{page 51 note 2} The summary of the seventh session will be continued in the May 1953 issue of International Organization

^{page 51 note 3} Document A/C.1/SR.511, October 23, 1952.

^{page 51 note 4} Australia, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Honduras, Iceland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Nicaragua, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States and Uruguay. See document A/2278, December 2, 1952.

^{page 52 note 5} Ibid.

^{page 52 note 6} Ibid.

^{page 52 note 7} For text of Indian resolution as finally approved, see this issue, Document Section.

^{page 53 note 8} Document A/C.1/SR.514, October 29, 1952. The texts of the disputed articles in the Geneva Convention read as follows:

“Article 7. Prisoners of war may in no circumstance renounce in part or in entirety the rights secured to them by the present Convention, and by the special agreements referred to in the foregoing Article, if such there be.

“Article 118. Prisoners of war shall be released and repatriated without delay after the cessation of active hostilities.…” For full text, see Department of State Publication 3938, General Foreign Policy Series 34.

^{page 53 note 9} Document A/2278, December 2, 1952.

^{page 53 note 10} See documents A/C.l/SR.535–536, December 1–2, 1952.

^{page 53 note 11} See document A/PV.399, December 3, 1952.

^{page 54 note 12} Ibid.

^{page 54 note 13} Document A/2355, December 23, 1952.

^{page 54 note 14} See document A/PV.411, December 21, 1952.

^{page 54 note 15} Ibid.

^{page 55 note 16} Document A/2143, July 21, 1952. For information on the nature of the request, see International Organization, VI, p. 407; earlier discussions in the Security Council concerning placing the item on its agenda may be found in Ibid., p. 287, 409.

^{page 55 note 17} For information on the Moroccan question, see this issue, p. 59.

^{page 56 note 18} Document A/PV.392, November 10, 1952.

^{page 56 note 19} See documents A/C.1/SR.537–546, December 4–12, 1952.

^{page 59 note 20} In favor: Afghanistan, Burma, Byelorussian SSR, China, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Thailand, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, Yemen, Yugoslavia.

Against: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Honduras, Iceland, Israel, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Sweden, Turkey, Union of South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela.

Abstained: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, Greece, Haiti, Mexico.

^{page 59 note 21} Abstaining: Argentina, Australia, Byelorussian SSR, Czechoslovakia, Guatemala, Netherlands, Poland, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, United Kingdom.

^{page 59 note 22} Document A/PV.404, December 17, 1952.

^{page 59 note 23} See documents A/C.1/SR.547–553, December 13–17, 1952.

^{page 59 note 24} For information on discussions of the Tunisian question, see this issue, p. 54.

^{page 60 note 25} Document A/PV.407, December 19, 1952.

^{page 61 note 26} Document A/2184, September 15, 1952.

^{page 61 note 27} Document A/2216, October 8, 1952; document A/2216/Add.1, November 24, 1952.

^{page 61 note 28} Documents A/AC.61/SR.25–39, November 25–December 11, 1952.

^{page 62 note 29} See International Organization, VI, p. 237.

^{page 63 note 30} In favor: Australia, Brazil, Burma, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, Israel, Liberia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Sweden, Union of South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Yugoslavia. Against: Afghanistan, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iron, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Thailand and Yemen.

^{page 63 note 31} Documents A/PV.405–406, December 18, 1952.

^{page 63 note 32} In favor; United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Yugoslavia, Australia, Brazil, Burma, Canada, Chile, Cuba, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Iceland, Israel, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Sweden, Union of South Africa. Against: Yemen, Afganistan, Bolivia, Byelorussian SSR, China, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan Poland, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Thailand, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.

^{page 64 note 33} See this issue, p. 61.

^{page 64 note 34} Document A/AC.61/SR.50, December 19, 1952.

^{page 64 note 35} Document A/PV.410, December 21, 1952.

^{page 64 note 36} For a summary of this report, see International Organization, VI, p. 561.

^{page 64 note 37} Documents A/AC.61/SR.3–7, October 23–30, 1952.

^{page 65 note 38} Documents A/AC.61/SR.13–21, November 12–20, 1952.

^{page 67 note 39} Against: Peru, Union of South Africa. Abstained: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, France, Greece, Iceland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Paraguay, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States and Venezuela.

^{page 67 note 40} For: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, El Salvador, Iceland, Israel, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Sweden, United States and Uruguay. Against: Byelorussian SSR, Czechoslovakia, Mexico, Poland, Ukrainian SSR, Union of South Africa and Soviet Union.

^{page 68 note 41} For the texts of the resolutions as approved in committee, see Document A/2276, December 2, 1952.

^{page 68 note 42} Document A/PV.401, December 5, 1952.

^{page 68 note 43} Document A/PV.411, December 21, 1952.

^{page 68 note 44} Document A/PV.380, October 16, 1952.

^{page 68 note 45} Documents A/AC.61/SR.8–12, November 3–11, 1952.

^{page 69 note 46} Document T/2257, November 17, 1952.

^{page 69 note 47} The following states voted against this paragraph: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Colombia, France, Greece, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Union of South Africa, United Kingdom; the following states Abstained: Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Iceland, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Sweden, Turkey, United States, Venezuela.

^{page 70 note 48} For records of this discussion, see documents A/C.1/SR.553–556, December 17–19, 1952.

^{page 70 note 49} Document A/PV.409, December 20, 1952.

^{page 70 note 50} Documents A/AC.61/SR.40–41, December 11–12, 1952. For the report of the United Nations Commissioner, see General Assembly, Official Records (7th session), Supplement No. 15.

^{page 71 note 51} Document A/PV.404, December 17, 1952.

^{page 71 note 52} Documents A/AC.61/SH.22–24, November 21–24, 1952.

^{page 72 note 53} Document A/PV.404, December 17, 1952.

^{page 74 note 1} Document A/2332, December 18, 1952.

^{page 74 note 2} Document A/C.2/L.156/Corr.1 & 2, n.d.

^{page 75 note 3} Document A/C.2/SR.209, November 12, 1952.

^{page 75 note 4} Document A/2332, December 18, 1952.

^{page 75 note 5} Document A/C.2/SR.212, November 14, 1952.

^{page 75 note 6} See document A/PV.411, December 21, 1952.

^{page 76 note 7} Document A/C.2/SR.213, November 17, 1952.

^{page 76 note 8} Document A/2332, December 18, 1952.

^{page 76 note 9} See documents A/C.2/211–215, November 14–20, 1952.

^{page 76 note 10} Document A/C.2/SR.214, November 19, 1952.

^{page 77 note 11} Document A/2332, December 18, 1952.

^{page 77 note 12} Ibid.

^{page 77 note 13} Ibid.

^{page 77 note 14} See document A/PV.411, December 21, 1952.

^{page 78 note 15} Document A/C.2/SR.214, November 19, 1952.

^{page 79 note 16} United Nations Press Release GA/1000, Part IV, p. 7–9.

^{page 79 note 17} See document A/PV.411, December 21, 1952.

^{page 79 note 18} Document A/C.2/SR.224, December 1, 1952.

^{page 79 note 19} See document A/PV.411, December 21, 1952.

^{page 80 note 20} United Nations Press Release GA/1000, Part IV, p. 11.

^{page 80 note 21} See document A/PV.411, December 21 1952.

^{page 80 note 22} Document A/2332, December 18, 1952.

^{page 81 note 23} For texts, see Document A/2332, December 18, 1952.

^{page 81 note 24} Document A/2332, December 18, 1952. For debate, see documents A/C.2/SR.231–238, December 6–12, 1952.

^{page 82 note 25} See document A/PV.411, December 21, 1952.

^{page 82 note 26} Document A/2332, December 18, 1952.

^{page 83 note 1} Document A/2294, December 9, 1952.

^{page 83 note 2} Document A/C.3/SR.430, October 30, 1952.

^{page 84 note 3} Document A/2294, December 9, 1952.

^{page 84 note 4} In favor: Afghanistan, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Iran, Lebanon, Nicaragua, Peru, Philippines, Syria, Uruguay, Yemen, Yugoslavia. Opposed: Australia, Belgium, Byelorussian SSR, Canada, China, Czechoslovakia, Greece, India, Iraq, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Poland, Turkey, Ukrainian SSR, Union of South Africa, USSR, United Kingdom and United States. Abstaining: Burma, Cuba, Denmark, Indonesia, Israel, Mexico, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Thailand. Ibid., p. 9.

^{page 84 note 5} See document A/P.V.403, December 16, 1952. For the text of the Convention, see this issue, Documents section.

^{page 84 note 6} Document A/2294, December 9, 1952.

^{page 84 note 7} Ibid.

^{page 85 note 8} Ibid. See also document A/C.3/SR.434, November 3, 1952.

^{page 85 note 9} For final text of the Convention on the Political Rights of Women, see this issue, Documents section.

^{page 85 note 10} Document A/2334, December 19, 1952.

^{page 86 note 11} Ibid.

^{page 86 note 12} Ibid.

^{page 86 note 13} See document A/P.V.409, December 20, 1952.

^{page 86 note 14} Ibid. See also document A/2334, December 19, 1952.

^{page 86 note 15} Abstaining were: Poland, Saudi Arabia, Ukrainian SSR, USSR, Yemen, Afghanistan, Byelorussian SSR, Czechoslovak, Ecuador, Egypt and Iran. See document A/P.V.409, December 20, 1952.

^{page 87 note 16} Document A/C.3/SR.470, October 9, 1952.

^{page 87 note 17} Document A/2328, December 18, 1952 and document A/P.V.408, December 20, 1952.

^{page 87 note 18} Document A/P.V.408, December 20, 1952.

^{page 87 note 19} Document A/2309, December 13, 1952.

^{page 88 note 20} Document A/C.3/SR.447, November 18, 1952.

^{page 88 note 21} Ibid.; document A/C.3/SR.445, November 14, 1952.

^{page 88 note 22} Document A/C.3/SR.450, November 20, 1952.

^{page 88 note 23} See especially statements by Messrs. Mani (India), Hanifah (Indonesia), Baroody (Saudi Arabia), Pazhwak (Afghanistan) and Yoacham (Chile) in documents A/P.V.444–460, November 13–December 1, 1952.

^{page 89 note 24} Document A/2309, December 13, 1952.

^{page 89 note 25} Document A/C.3/SR.460, December 1, 1952.

^{page 89 note 26} Document A/P.V.403, December 16, 1952.

^{page 89 note 27} Document A/C.3/SR.464, December 3, 1952.

^{page 89 note 28} Document A/P.V.403, December 16, 1952.

^{page 89 note 29} Ibid.

^{page 90 note 30} Document A/2240, October 31, 1952.

^{page 90 note 31} Document A/2333, December 19, 1952.

^{page 90 note 1} General Assembly, Official Records (7th session), Supplement No. 18.

^{page 94 note 2} In favor: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Burma, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Venezuela. Against: Australia, Belgium, Byelorussian SSR, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Ukrainian SSR, Union of South Africa, USSR, United Kingdom, United States.

^{page 94 note 3} Against: Australia, Belgium, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Union of South Africa, United Kingdom and United States.

^{page 96 note 4} Document A/2178, September 16, 1952.

^{page 98 note 5} Against: Australia, Belgium, Colombia, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Union of South Africa, United Kingdom, United States.

^{page 98 note 6} General Assembly, Official Records (7th session), Supplement 4.

^{page 99 note 7} For information on consideration of this dispute by the Trusteeship Council at its eleventhsession, see International Organization, VI, p. 610.

^{page 100 note 8} Against: Afghanistan, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Burma, Byelorussian SSR, Chile, Czechoslovakia, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Ukrainian SSR, USSR, Venezuela, Yemen, Yugoslavia. Abstained: China, Ethiopia, Peru, Thailand, United Kingdom.

^{page 101 note 9} In favor: Poland, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Ukrainian SSR, USSR, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Bolivia, Burma, Byelorussian SSR, China, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Liberia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Philippines. Against: Sweden, Union of South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, France, Greece, Iceland, Israel, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway.

^{page 101 note 10} See International Organization, VI, p. 260.

^{page 102 note 11} See Ibid., p. 616.

^{page 103 note 12} Document A/2289, December 4, 1952. For more detailed information on the problem of Ewe and Togoland unification and for discussion of the matter at the second part of the eleventh session of the Trusteeship Council, see this issue, p. 125.

^{page 104 note 13} In favor: Afghanistan, Burma, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Liberia, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Yemen. Agamst: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Union of South Africa, United Kingdom, United States and Uruguay.

^{page 104 note 14} Against: Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States.

^{page 104 note 15} For a summary of this report, see International Organization, VI, p. 566.

^{page 104 note 16} Document A/2217, October 9, 1952.

^{page 105 note 1} Document A/2352, December 20, 1952.

^{page 105 note 2} See documents A/2283, December 3, 1952; A/2352, December 20, 1952.

^{page 106 note 3} Document A/2352, December 20, 1952.

^{page 106 note 4} For summary of recommendations, see International Organization, VI, p. 571.

^{page 106 note 5} Document A/2286, December 3, 1952.

^{page 106 note 6} Document A/2214, October 7, 1952.

^{page 107 note 7} Document A/2344, December 20, 1952.

^{page 107 note 8} Ibid.

^{page 107 note 9} Documents A/2265, November 22, 1952; A/2321, December 16, 1952; A/2324, December 18, 1952; A/2345, A/2347 and A/2348, December 20, 1952; A/2315 through A/2319, December 16, 1952.

^{page 107 note 10} Document A/2249, November 4, 1952.

^{page 107 note 1} See International Organization, V, p. 734.

^{page 109 note 2} For the report of the Legal Committee to the Assembly on this item, see document A/2275, December 1, 1952.

^{page 110 note 3} Document A/2211, October 3, 1952. For information on action taken by the Assembly at its sixth session, see International Organization, VI, p. 272.

^{page 111 note 4} In favor: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Greece, Honduras, Liberia, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela. Against: Bolivia, Byelorussian SSR, Chile, Cuba, CzechoSlovakia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Indonesia, Iran, Lebanon, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, Uruguay, Yemen, Yugoslavia.

^{page 112 note 5} Document A/2206, October 1, 1952.

^{page 112 note 6} For text of the rules of procedure of the General Assembly as amended through the fifth session of the Assembly, see document A/520/ Rev.2, June 5, 1951.

^{page 113 note 7} Document A/2174, September 8, 1952.

^{page 114 note 8} For a summary of this report, see International Organization, VI, p. 573.

^{page 116 note 9} For text of the Convention, see Ibid., III, p. 206.

^{page 117 note 10} Document A/2170, September 18, 1952. For information on action taken during the seventh session of the Assembly, see International Organization, VI, p. 273.

^{page 117 note 11} See International Organization, IV, p. 105.

^{page 118 note 12} Document A/2180, September 12, 1952.

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