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The United States Representative at the United Nations ( Austin ) to the Secretary of State

Delga 451. Following is Chilean draft resolution (A/C.3/L.180) in Committee 3 on human rights covenant:

The General Assembly,

Having considered the report of the Commission on Human Rights (seventh session) and the records of the discussion thereon at the thirteenth session of the Economic and Social Council,

Noting that only lack of time prevented the Commission on Human Rights from undertaking certain of the tasks which the General Assembly assigned to it under Resolution 421 [E] (V) in connection with the draft international covenant on human rights.

Noting, likewise, that the Economic and Social Council decided to request the Commission on Human Rights to proceed, at its next session, with these tasks, in particular the revision of the first eighteen articles of the draft covenant and the preparation of recommendations aimed at securing the maximum extension of the covenant to the constituent units of federal states and at meeting the constitutional problems of those states,

1. Reaffirms the directives already given by the General Assembly in Resolution 421 [E] (V) and requests the Economic and Social Council to transmit to the Commission on Human Rights the records of the General Assembly meetings containing the discussions on the report of the Commission on Human Rights and the comments of representatives on the draft covenant, in order to guide the commission in its work;

2. Requests the Economic and Social Council to take appropriate measures to ensure that the Commission on Human Rights shall have [Page 769] the necessary time at its disposal to complete before the fifteenth session of the council the work assigned to it in connection with the international covenant on Human Rights so that the council may submit it, together with its own recommendations, to the seventh session of the General Assembly.”

Austin