Ghana Joins U.N.
NEW YORK, March 8. Ghana became the eighty-first member of the United Nations today. less than three days after it came into existence. The General Assembly approved unanimously a resolution sponsored by seven Commonwealth nations calling for Ghana’s admission. South Africa was the only member of the Commonwealth not among the sponsors The way for the new West African nation’s admission was cleared yesterday when the Security Council’s 11 members unanimously recommended Ghana’s entrance.
Sir Leslie Munro (New Zealand) said his Government wished to pay a sincere tribute to the Unjted Kingdom, “whose wise policies and sympathetic understanding have ensured an orderly and swift transition from dependency to full sovereignty and Statehood.”
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28223, 11 March 1957, Page 9
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