UKRAINE ELECTED
SECURITY COUNCIL VACANCY Rec. 8 p.m. NEW YORK, Nov. 13. The Ukraine was elected to the United • Nations Security Council by the General Assembly to-day to succeed Poland on January 1. The election was converted into formality by the withdrawal of India from its long fight for the disputed eleventh council seat. Argentina and Canada had already been elected to replace Brazil and Australia for two-year terms, but in the 11 ballots prior to to-day neither Ukraine nor India drew the necessary two-thirds majority for the third council vacancy. The Ukraine received 35 votes and India two in spite of its withdrawal, and 15 countries abstained. It is reliably understood that abstentions and invalid ballots included the United States, Great Britain. Australia, Belgium. the Netherlands, Greece. South Africa, France. Luxembui’g, Canada, Pakistan. Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Turkey. Iraq and Yemen. *
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26619, 15 November 1947, Page 7
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