Editorial Note
The First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly held 2 meetings on Saturday, January 13, from 10:45 a. m. to 1:10 p. m. and from 3 p. m. to 6:15 p. m.; for the records, see United Nations documents A/C.1/SR.424 and 425.
At the afternoon meeting, the First Committee approved by a vote of 50 (including the United States) to 7, with 1 abstention, the principles embodied in the Supplementary Report of the Cease-Fire Group (A/C.1/645), and then approved by a vote of 45 (including the United States) to 5, with 8 abstentions, a Norwegian draft resolution (A/C.1/651) which read as follows:
“The First Committee
“Invites the Chairman of the First Committee, through the Secretary-General, to transmit the principles approved by it on 13 January 1951 to the Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China and invite that Government to inform him as soon as possible whether it accepts those principles as a basis for the peaceful settlement of the Korean problem and other Far Eastern problems. Upon the receipt of the reply from the Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China, the Chairman of the First Committee will convene the Committee to consider that reply.”
For the text of a statement by Mr. Acheson on January 17 explaining the United States vote in favor of the cease-fire proposal, see the Department of State Bulletin, January 29, 1951, page 164.