U.N. DEBATE ON MOROCCO
VOTE TO POSTPONE CONSIDERATION
(Rec. 8 p.m.) PARIS, December 14. France Won a battle lasting all day yesterday to keep the Moroccan question off the agenda of the United Nations Assembly.
Delegates voted 28 votes to 23, with seven abstentions, in support of a steering committee recommendation that consideration of the item, which is a joint Arab complaint of alleged French violations of human rights in Morocco, be postponed. The five Arab sponsors of the resolution. and India and Pakistan, the five Cominform countries and the Philippines were among the countries which voted against the postponement. Those in favour included Britain, the United States. New Zealand, Australia, and Canada.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26605, 15 December 1951, Page 7
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