UNO’s Responsibility On Greek Question
(12.45 p.m.) LAKE SUCCESS, Oct. 3. The New Zealand delegate (Sir Carl Berendsen) told the UNO General Assembly’s political committee that the Security Council as now constituted, and with the present voting procedure, was unable to cope with the sorry situation in Greece.
However, its lamentable failure was no reason for assuming the Assembly should fail. On the other hand it was a conclusive and compelling reason why the Assembly must take the responsibility for solving the question. It was clear from the impassioned words heard by the committee that both sides were convinced that a potential threat to peace existed. The only disagreement was over which side represented the threat. It was plain | that neither the Committee nor the Assembly could examine the dispute at first hand and it was therefore essential that the Assembly should establish a subsidiary body to investigate. For that reason New Zealand would naturally support the United States resolution providing for the establishment of such a bodv.
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Northern Advocate, 4 October 1947, Page 5
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