ATOMIC ENERGY CONTROL

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26514, 31 August 1951, Page 9

ATOMIC ENERGY CONTROL

Resolution For U.N. Assembly

(Rec. 9 p.m.) NEW YORK. August 29. A United Nations committee to-day adopted the United States resolution recommending a merger of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission and the Commission for Conventional Armaments, into a single arms control unit,

The committee, which consists of members of the Security Council and Canada, passed the resolution by 11 votes to one.

The Soviet Union opposed the resolution, which empowers th° General Assembly to create a new single commission which would operate under the Security Council. India ahd Jugoslavia, who often take a middle position on United Nations issues, supported the proposal. The Russians objected not to the idea of amalgamation—they have favoured it themselves in the past—but to the inclusion in the resolution of a preamble clause that in effect endorses the majority-approved Baruch Plan for control of atomic weapons. , , ... The General Assembly must ratify the merger proposal at its forthcoming Paris meeting. t x - It is expected to do so: but Short of a radical switch in Soviet policy, the joint commission is likely to remain as academic as its two predecessors —the Atomic Energv Commission and the Conventional Armaments Commission.