Soviet Socialist Republics in bringing this matter before the General Assembly as a means of drawing public attention to the gravity of the situation and of promoting needed action. The main purposes of the resolution which these Governments sponsored, and which the Assembly approved, are to stimulate all possible action by governments to increase supplies to the maximum, to conserve supplies, and to request international organizations concerned with food and agriculture to undertake urgent surveys of the prospective world food situation. The text of the resolution is appended to this Report. The Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations immediately notified the Assembly that the F. A. O. would accept responsibility for initiating the requested survey, and to this end, a meeting would be held with representatives of the international organizations and of the principal Governments concerned. An early date for this meeting is now being arranged. Economic Reconstruction On January 29, 1946 the General Committee favorably considered an application by the Delegation of Poland for the inclusion on the Agenda of the General Assembly of a resolution on reconstruction of States Members of the United Nations that had suffered war damage. The resolution as adopted by the General Assembly contained an amendment submitted by the United States, which referred this matter for full discussion to the Economic and Social Council and to the General Assembly's Economic and Financial Committee at the Second Part of the First Session. In supporting the amended resolution, Mr. John G. Townsend, Jr., representing the United States, indicated the Delegation's understanding of the urgency of this problem and called attention to the steps which the United States Government had already taken to meet it, such as its participation in the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the loans made under the facilities of the Export-Import Bank, but made clear that no financial commitments were involved in the United States support of this resolution. The text of the resolution is contained in an appendix to this Report. Trade and Employment, and Health Two major proposals of much interest to the United States were briefly referred to in a procedural connection in the General Assembly but actually dealt with by the Economic and Social Council. The first of these was the proposal that the United Nations should assume responsibility for carrying forward, without loss of momentum, work already initiated by the United States Government looking toward the convening of an International Conference on Trade and Employment in the latter part of 1946. III Major Substantive Problems Control and Use of Atomic Energy for Peaceful Purposes Pursuant to the agreement reached in December 1945, at the Moscow Conference of the Foreign Ministers of the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union, and to subsequent negotiations, the British Government, acting on behalf of the five permanent members of the Security Council and Canada, on January 4 proposed that the resolution drafted at Moscow relating to the establishment of a commission for the control and use of atomic energy be added to the Agenda of the General Assembly. Mr. Attlee underlined the importance of the establishment of the proposed Commission in his address of welcome to the Assembly on January 10, and the head of the United States Delegation, Secretary Byrnes, in opening the general debate on the report of the Preparatory Commission at the Seventh Plenary Meeting on January 14, said: "We have another task of transcending importance. The establishment of a commission to deal with the problems raised by the discovery of atomic energy is inseparably linked with the problem of security. It is a matter of primary concern to all nations. We must not fail to devise the safeguards necessary to ensure that this great discovery is used for human welfare and not for more deadly human warfare." The Assembly referred the establishment of the proposed Commission to its Political and Security Committee which considered the proposed resolution at its second and third meetings on January 21 and January 22. The brief debate was opened by Senator Connally, the United States Representative on this Committee. At the end of the meeting of January 21, the resolution was approved without change by forty-six votes to none, with one abstention. After a further brief debate on the following day, the First Committee on January 23 approved unanimously the report of the Rapporteur on the establishment of the Commission. On January 24 the report and resolution authorizing the Commission on Atomic Energy were approved in the General Assembly with no dissenting votes. and powers of the proposed Commission was set forth by Senator Connally and by Secretary Byrnes, whose full statements are appended to the present Report. The relationship of the Commission to the General Assembly and to the Security Council, respectively, is in accord with the responsibilities of these principal organs under the Charter, and is set forth in the text of the resolution, which also is appended to this Report. The Genera Assembly took no action with respect to the place and date of the first meeting of the Atomic Energy Commission. It is expected, however, that this meeting will take place at the temporary headquarters of the United Nations at a time to be set by the Secretary-General of the United Nations after consultation with the twelve governments represented on the Commission. Iran; Syria and Lebanon Two major international political issues concerning relations between Members were brought to the attention of the General Assembly, namely the difficulties which had arisen between Iran and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics over the situation in Azerbaijan, and the presence of French and British troops in Syria and Lebanon. Mr. Taqizadeh, head of the Iranian Delegation, in his speech at the Eighth Plenary Session of the Assembly on Tuesday, January 15, spoke at some length of the "very disturbing situation prevailing in Iran" which confronted Iran with "certain great difficulties of an international character." He added that, although the situation was one which "could certainly be brought before this Assembly to be dealt with in its present session as a situation 'likely to impair the friendly relations among nations'", Iran had not yet despaired of an acceptable solution, and, therefore, his Delegation had "refrained rather reluctantly at the last moment" from adding this matter to the Agenda of the Assembly, reserving the right to do so if no early solution was reached. The Iranian Delegation thus did not place the problem for action before the Assembly, but a few days after Mr. Taqizadeh's speech referred it to the Security Council. This was the first of the four important political problems which were considered by the Council during the month of its sessions in London, the others relating to Syria and Lebanon, and to Greece and to Indonesia. The latter two were not referred to in the General Assembly. On January 19, the Lebanese Delegate, Mr. Frangich, alluded in his speech during the general debate in the General Assembly to the hindrance to Lebanon's legitimate aspirations offered by the presence of foreign troops on Lebanese soil. He did not refer to the possible role of the United Nations in relation to this problem, but his Syrian III Major Substantive Problems Control and Use of Atomic Energy for Peaceful Purposes Pursuant to the agreement reached in December 1945, at the Moscow Conference of the Foreign Ministers of the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union, and to subsequent negotiations, the British Government, acting on behalf of the five permanent members of the Security Council and Canada, on January 4 proposed that the resolution drafted at Moscow relating to the establishment of a commission for the control and use of atomic energy be added to the Agenda of the General Assembly. Mr. Attlee underlined the importance of the establishment of the proposed Commission in his address of welcome to the Assembly on January 10, and the head of the United States Delegation, Secretary Byrnes, in opening the general debate on the report of the Preparatory Commission at the Seventh Plenary Meeting on January 14, said: "We have another task of transcending importance. The establishment of a commission to deal with the problems raised by the discovery of atomic energy is inseparably linked with the problem of security. It is a matter of primary concern to all nations. We must not fail to devise the safeguards necessary to ensure that this great discovery is used for human welfare and not for more deadly human warfare." The Assembly referred the establishment of the proposed Commission to its Political and Security Committee which considered the proposed resolution at its second and third meetings on January 21 and January 22. The brief debate was opened by Senator Connally, the United States Representative on this Committee. At the end of the meeting of January 21, the resolution was approved without change by forty-six votes to none, with one abstention. After a further brief debate on the following day, the First Committee on January 23 approved unanimously the report of the Rapporteur on the establishment of the Commission. On January 24 the report and resolution authorizing the C mission on Atomic Energy were approved in the General Ass with no dissenting votes. and powers of the proposed Commission was set forth by Senator Connally and by Secretary Byrnes, whose full statements are appended to the present Report. The relationship of the Commission to the General Assembly and to the Security Council, respectively, is in accord with the responsibilities of these principal organs under the Charter, and is set forth in the text of the resolution, which also is appended to this Report. The Genera Assembly took no action with respect to the place and date of the first meeting of the Atomic Energy Commission. It is expected, however, that this meeting will take place at the temporary headquarters of the United Nations at a time to be set by the Secretary-General of the United Nations after consultation with the twelve governments represented on the Commission. Iran; Syria and Lebanon Two major international political issues concerning relations between Members were brought to the attention of the General Assembly, namely the difficulties which had arisen between Iran and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics over the situation in Azerbaijan, and the presence of French and British troops in Syria and Lebanon. Mr. Taqizadeh, head of the Iranian Delegation, in his speech at the Eighth Plenary Session of the Assembly on Tuesday, January 15, spoke at some length of the "very disturbing situation prevailing in Iran" which confronted Iran with "certain great difficulties of an international character." He added that, although the situation was one which "could certainly be brought before this Assembly to be dealt with in its present session as a situation 'likely to impair the friendly relations among nations'", Iran had not yet despaired of an acceptable solution, and, therefore, his Delegation had "refrained rather reluctantly at the last moment" from adding this matter to the Agenda of the Assembly, reserving the right to do so if no early solution was reached. The Iranian Delegation thus did not place the problem for action before the Assembly, but a few days after Mr. Taqizadeh's speech referred it to the Security Council. 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