SOVIET USES VETO

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24906, 20 June 1946, Page 5

SOVIET USES VETO

Security Council Vote On Spanish Report T r

BRITISH AMENDMENT LOST

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Ree. 8 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 18. Nine members of the United Nations Security Council voted for a compromise resolution on Spain proposed by Dr H. V. Evatt (Australia), and one against it. The Netherlands abstained from voting. Russia voted in the negative, upon which the chairman (Senor Najera, Mexico) announced that the sub-eommittee’s recommendation on Spain ff as vetoed.

[Dr. Evatt’s proposal was that the Spanish question should be referred to the General Assembly of the United Nations, in accordance with the report of the sub-committee on Spain of which he was chairman. He had previously announced that the 6 ub-committee had adopted the United States suggestion that the General Assembly should take such action as it deemed appropriate in the circumstances at the time, instead of calling for a complete break with General Franco if he were still in power in September.] The British amendment, moved by Sir Alexander Cadogan, that the Spanish question be referred to the Assembly without recommendations, was defeated by six votes to two. There were three abstentions—China, Russia and the United States. The Netherlands and Britain were the only affirmative votes.