Editorial Note
The Ad Hoc Political Committee began consideration of the items relating to voting, in the Security Council on November 29 and continued this discussion on November 30, December 1, December 2 and December 4, with one interruption (United Nations, Official Records of the General Assembly, Third Session, Part I, Ad Hoc Political Committee, pages 189–257, 269–300). A statement of some length in support of the joint draft resolution was made by the United States delegate on the committee, Benjamin V. Cohen, on the first day of discussion (ibid., pages 196 ff.). In the voting on December 4 the Ad Hoc Committee first rejected an Australian amendment to the joint draft resolution, then adopted the joint draft, and finally, rejected two other resolutions offered by Argentina (concerning the convocation of a general conference) and the Soviet Union (which had presented a resolution about voting couched in general terms) (ibid., pages 295 ff.). For text of the report of the Ad Hoc Political Committee concerning voting in the Security Council, see United Nations, Official Records of the General Assembly, Third Session, Part II, Plenary Meetings, Annexes, pages 19 ff.
The General Assembly however did not consider the Committee report at Paris, this item being held over to the second part of the third session (which on December 6, 1948 the General Assembly decided to convoke at New York in April 1949). For discussion in the General Assembly on April 13 and April 14, 1949, prior to adoption of the report with its accompanying resolutions, see United Nations, Official Records of the General Assembly, Third Session, Part II, Plenary Meetings, pages 48 ff. For text of Resolution 267 (III), see United Nations, Official Records of the General Assembly, Third Session, Part II, Resolutions, page 7.