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Volume #18 - 248. | |
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CHAPTER III UNITED NATIONS | |
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PART
4 SEVENTH SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, FIRST PART, OCTOBER 14-DECEMBER 21, 1952 | |
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SECTION
B RESIGNATION OF SECRETARY-GENERAL | |
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L.B.P./Vol. 64 |
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Secretary- General of the United Nations to President of the Seventh Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations | |
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New York,
November 10th, 1952 | |
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Dear Mr. Pearson,
I wish to refer to our personal and confidential conversation on the eleventh of September, in which I informed you that I had decided, after lengthy consideration over many months, to submit my resignation as Secretary-General of the United Nations. It had been my intention - as I informed you then - to take this step at the opening of the Seventh Session of the General Assembly. I have delayed until today, when the Foreign Ministers of the five Permanent Members of the Security Council are all present for the first time during this session, in the hope that this will facilitate agreement on my successor. I shall be grateful if you would propose as a new item on the agenda "Appointment of the Secretary-General". Yours sincerely, | |
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