VACANCY ON COUNCIL
INDIA’S CLAIM WITHDRAWN
BITTER STRUGGLE ENDS Rec 9 p.m. NEW YORK. Nov. 12. India withdrew to-day from its long fight with the Soviet and Ukraine for the eleventh seat on the United Nations Security Council. The decision announced to the press bv Mrs Vijayn Lakshmi Pandit, leader of the Indian delegation, resolved in Russia’s favour one of the most bitter American-Soviet deadlocks in the United Nations General Assembly, li assured the election of the Ukraine to succeed Poland on the Council on January 1. Mrs Pandit emphasised in her withdrawal that India was not accepting the present geographical allocation of seats on the Security Council, which, she said, “is so unfair to Asia and leaves such vital and well-defined areas without representation in the Council.” She said that India proposed to raise this question formally at a later date.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26618, 14 November 1947, Page 5
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142VACANCY ON COUNCIL Otago Daily Times, Issue 26618, 14 November 1947, Page 5
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