CONTENTS Page I. Introduction .. .. .. .. .. 3 11. Delegations .. .. .. .. .. 6 111. Elections .. .. .. .. .. 6 IV. General Debate .. .. .. .. .. 9 V. First Committee : Political and Security Questions 9 VI. Ad Hoc Political Committee .. .. .. 59 VII. Second Committee : Economic and Financial Questions 80 VIII. Joint Meetings of Second and Third Committees .. 87 IN. Joint Meetings of Second, Third, and Fifth Committees 94 N. Third Committee : Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural Questions . . .. . . .. 95 NT Fourth Committee : Trusteeship Questions .. .. 109 NIT Fifth Committee : Administrative and Budgetary Questions .. .. .. .. .. 120 NIII. Sixth Committee : Legal Questions .. .. 126 Appendix I Extracts from Speech Delivered by Mr. J. Thorn at the Plenary Meeting of tiie Assembly Held on 27 September, 1948 .. 144 Appendix II Universal Declaration of Human Rights .. .. ..147 Appendix III — Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide .. .. .. .. .. . 152

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