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    "ocrText": "for\n=5a\norganization in connection with the turn=over to it of\nrelief and rehabilitation responsibility.\nNo authcrity conferred upon the former United Nations\nCommission in Korea has been of a mandatory character.\nThe new Commission is to assume the functions hitherto\nexercised by the present United Netions Commission on Korea\n(UNCOK), which would give it no new authcrity of a manda-\ntory character (torms of reference of the present UNCOK\nattached as Tab G). It is believed that the new Commission's\nbeing given the duty of \"representing the United Nations in\nbringing about the establishment of a unified, independent\nand democratic government of all Korea\", likewise falls\nshort of conferring such authority.\nThus, the new Commission does not have any authority to\ninstruct the Unified Command. Similarly, the Unified Com-\nmand possesses no authcrity to instruct the Commissione\nConsequently the relationship between the two is of a cone\nsultative character and will require continuous and coopera\ntive efforts to feresee and avoid difficulties.\nConsultation implies a parity of status, or at least an\navcidance cf any attempt to define relative status. It may\nlead to a presentation of views by one party or the other.\nIt may lead, at the discretion of the parties, to an exchange\nof views, and perhaps to modification of views which would\nlead to eventual agreement.\nNo responsibility is incurred by the party offering views\nin the event that the other party accepts them and proceeds\non that basis with indifferent success, and no responsibility\nis incurred by the party to which they are addressed in the\nevent that that party refrains from accenting them. It is\nclear, however, that each party, inasmuch as it is acccuntable\nto a higher authority, must be prepared to justify the course\nwhich it has adopted, either in accepting, or in rejecting,\nthe views of the other party. The Commission will have to\nacccunt to the General Assembly where it may find itself in\ndisagreement with the Unified Command. The Unified Command\n(United States Government) will have to acccunt to the Secu-\nrity Council and to the General Assembly if it acts in\ndisegreement"
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