Editorial Note

In resolution 570 (VI), adopted on January 19, 1952, the General Assembly reconstituted the Ad Hoc Committee on South West Africa and commissioned it to confer with the Government of the Union of South Africa concerning means of implementing the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on South West Africa. (For the text of this resolution, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixth Session, Supplement No. 20, UN document A/2119.) Between March 26 and November 18, 1952, the Ad Hoc Committee held a series of meetings and on November 20, 1952, it issued a report to the General Assembly, which detailed the areas of agreement and disagreement between the Committee and the Union of South Africa. (UN document A/2261)