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Volume #19 - 315.

CHAPITRE III

NATIONS UNIES

4E PARTIE

DÉSARMEMENT

315.

 DEA/8508-40

Extrait du procès-verbal de la réunion des chefs de direction
[Ottawa], le 23 mars 1953

Disarmament

4. Mr. Scott. The debate on this item began in the First Committee on March 18. A resolution simply asking the Disarmament Commission created in 1952 to continue its work and to report to the General Assembly and Security Council next September, was introduced by all past and present members of the Commission (in all, 14 countries including Canada) except the Soviet Union. Minor amendments suggested by Egypt, Iraq, Syria and Yemen were accepted by the 14 sponsoring countries. The USSR introduced a resolution accusing the Commission of having refused to give serious consideration to the problem of disarmament and in particular of having failed to consider the Soviet proposals which had been specifically referred to the Commission by the General Assembly. The Soviet resolution ended by asking the Commission to proceed forthwith with the study of practical measures designed to bring about disarmament. The United States have taken in the debate a tougher line than we had expected. Information now available indicates that the Soviet delegate replied in moderate terms. The general tone of the debate was mild and serious. The fourteen-power resolution was approved in the First Committee on Saturday (March 21) by a vote of 50 in favour, 5 against (Soviet bloc) and 5 abstentions (Argentina, Burma, India, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia). The Soviet resolution was rejected by 5 votes in favour (Soviet bloc), 41 against (including Canada) and 13 abstentions (Afghanistan, Egypt, Ethiopia, Liberia, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, and the 5 countries which abstained on the fourteen-power resolution.)


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