U.N.O. TURNS DOWN SOVIET PROPOSALS FOR ATOMIC CONTROL

Grey River Argus, 7 April 1948, Page 8

U.N.O. TURNS DOWN SOVIET PROPOSALS FOR ATOMIC CONTROL

NEW YORK, April 5. The working committee of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission to-day voted, by nine votes to *'two, not to continue discussion on Soviet proposals for international control of atomic energy. The Soviet and the Ukraine voted against the resolution, which was introduced by Mr Richard Miles (Britain), on behalf of Britain, China. France and Canada. The resolution was as follows: — “Because 1 the Soviet proposals ignore the existing technical knowledge of the atomic energy control, do not provide an adequate basis for effective international control of atomic energy and the elimination from national armaments of atomic weapons and, therefore, do not conform with the commission’s terms of reference, the working committee concludes that no useful purpose can be served bv further discussiion of these proposals in the working committee.” The commission is expected to meet, later this month to decide whether to continue its attempts to work out world atomic control plans or wind up its work.