LIBYA’S FUTURE
INDEPENDENCE NOT LATER THAN 1952 RECOMMENDATION BY U.N. SUBCOMMITTEE (N.Z. Press (Rec. 9.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 12. A United Nations committee representing 21 nations to-day passed a resolution by 18 votes to three that Libya should be granted independence as soon as possible and not later than January 1, 1952. The sub-committee, which was established by the United Nations Political Committee to consider all the proposals for Libya, had earlier unanimously agreed that Libya should be independent, but speakers had differed about the date. The Soviet Union and Polish delegates argued that to adopt the American and Pakistan proposals for a threeyear interim period would be tantamount to postponing independence. The Soviet, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. who had demanded immediate independence, voted against the motion to grant independence by 1952. The sub-committee also adopted a resolution that the administering Powers should take immediate steps to hand over sovereignty and all necessary powers of State to a new Libyan Government once the United Nations had taken a final decision.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25934, 14 October 1949, Page 7
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