Editorial Note
In a tripartite declaration issued by the United States, the United Kingdom, and France on September 26, indicating their desire for the removal of certain restrictions from the Italian Peace Treaty, the three governments noted, inter alia, that a majority of the United [Page 349] Nations General Assembly had three times voted in favor of admission of Italy to the United Nations but that Italy was “still prevented by an unjustifiable veto from obtaining membership in the United Nations in spite of the provisions of the treaty and the Charter. … Each of the three governments hereby reaffirms its determination to make every effort to secure Italy’s membership in the United Nations.” For text of the declaration, see Department of State Bulletin, October 8, 1951, page 570.
In the meantime, at New York, in a letter dated September 24, Peru submitted a request to the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the inclusion of an additional item in the agenda of the forthcoming session of the General Assembly: “Admission of new Members; right of candidate States to present proof of the conditions required under Article 4 of the Charter” (Doc. A/1887 (Rev. 1)). For text of this document and other relevant documentation in the legislative history of this item in the Sixth Session of the General Assembly, see United Nations, Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixth Session, Annexes, fascicule for agenda item 60 (hereafter cited as GA (VI), Annexes). The Sixth Regular Session of the General Assembly was scheduled to convene in Paris on November 6, 1951.