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    "ocrText": "- 3 -\nState in Palestine would cost the United Nations large sums of money\neven on the assumption of willing cooperation by Israel and Jordan.\nThe United States delegation, while making clear its support of an\ninternational regime for Jerusalem, voted against the Australian resolu-\ntion for reasons above stated and continued to support the proposal of\nthe Palestine Conciliation Commission which in its view represented a\nsound basis for a solution, giving substantial recognition to the legiti-\nmate desires of Israel and Jordan and of the international community.\nWe also emphasized that, although we would consider carefully any proposed\namendments to the Palestine Conciliation Commission plan, we could not\nsee our way clear to change our position except in favor of one which\nrepresented general agreement.\nIt seems certain that the Arab States supported the Australian\nresolution out of a desire to oppose Israel and that the Soviet group\ndid so largely in order to block the extension to Arab Palestine of the\ncontrol of King Abdullah of Jordan, regarded by the Russians as a tool\nof Great Britain, and to curry favor with the other Arab States. The\nVatican, which has important religious interests in Jerusalem, doubtless\nrealized that the Australian resolution could not be implemented, but\nprobably supported it in order to achieve a better bargaining position\nin respect of Jerusalem.\nThe General Assembly resolution of December 9, 1949 reaffirmed the\nprinciple of the 1947 resolution that Jerusalem should be established as\na corpus separatum under a special international regime administered by\nthe United Nations. The Trusteeship Council was directed at its next\nmeeting to complete the preparation of the draft Statute for the City,"
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