WIDE POWERS FOR MR LIE
Action of Security
Council
MAY SERVE AS MEDIATOR
(NZ Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 12.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 7. _ The United Nations Security Coutucil has unanimously given Mr Trygve Lie, Secretary-General of UNO, extraordinary powers to intervene in any debate before the council and to serve as a mediator whenever he apd the council approvedIt also authorised him to participate m discussions with the Atomic Energy Commission, the Military Staff Committee, and any subsidiary council body. The decision developed from a cpn»troversy which has been going on behind the scenes since Mr Lie suggested
that the council might not have authority to keep jurisdiction over the Persian question after Russia and Persia had requested that it should be removed from the agenda. At the time, Mr Edward Stettin jus, (th- United States representative), backed up by the United States Secretary of State (Mr James Byrnes), questioned Mr Lie’s intervention, but Mr Lie held firm, and his action has now been upheld by the council’s committee of experts.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24896, 8 June 1946, Page 7
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171WIDE POWERS FOR MR LIE Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24896, 8 June 1946, Page 7
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