Draft Proposed Remarks by Ambassador Austin to Plenary Session, Special Session on Palestine, with Attached Memorandum, Action on the General Assembly's Resolution on the Palestine Question
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ACTION ON THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY'S RESOLUTION
OF NOVEMBER 29, 1947 ON THE PALESTINIAN
QUESTION
Problem:
To determine the position which the United States
Delegation to the Special Session of the General Assembly
should adopt with respect to action by that body on the
General Assembly's resolution of November 29, 1947 on the
Palestinian Question.
Recommendations:
A.
If the General Assembly's resolution of November
29 is amended at the Special Session, the United States
should support changes which would have the effect of
bringing about its peaceful implementation and of making
it acceptable to the peoples of Palestine.
B.
If a new resolution providing for a temporary
trusteeship agreement is approved by a two-thirds vote
of the General Assembly the United States should initiate
or support the suspension of the General Assembly's res-
olution of November 29, preferably by statement to this
effect in the new resolution.
C.
If a new resolution providing for a political
settlement is approved by two-thirds vote of the General
Assembly, the United States should initiate or support
the withdrawal of the General Assembly's resolution of
November 29, preferably by a statement to this effect in
the new resolution.
Discussion:
1 - On November 29, 1947 the General Assembly adopted
a resolution on the Palestinian question. This resolution
provided for a plan of partition with economic union for
Palestine. It included provisions for a future constitu-
tion and government of Palestine, boundaries, a special
regime for the City of Jerusalem and an invitation with
regard to capitulations in Palestine.
The General Assembly's resolution recommended to the
United Kingdom, as the Mandatory Power for Palestine, and
to all other Members of the United Nations the adoption
and implementation with regard to the future government
of Palestine, of the plan of partition with Economic union
as provided for in that resolution.
The General Assembly's resolution also requested that:
"(a) The Security Council take the necessary
measures as provided forin the Plan for its imple-
mentation;
"(b)
The Security
DECLASSIFIED
E, O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)
Dept. of State letter, Aug. 9, 1973
By NLT- HC NARS Date 7.16.75
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