PALESTINE PROGRESS REPORT OF THE UNITED NATIONS
United States of America: Amendment to the Draft Resolution of the
United Kingdom (Document A/C.1/394)
A. Delete numbered paragraph two.
B. Add the following paragraph:
“2. CALLS UPON the governments and authorities concerned to extend the scope of the negotiations provided for in the Security Council’s Resolution of 16 November 1948, and to seek agreement by negotiations conducted either directly or through the Conciliation Commission with a view to a final settlement of all questions outstanding between them.”
C. Delete numbered paragraphs three, four and five and substitute the following two paragraphs, numbered as indicated:
“3. ESTABLISHES a Conciliation Commission consisting of (three States Members of the United Nations) which shall have the following functions:
(a) To assume the functions given to the United Nations Mediator in Palestine by the Resolution of the General Assembly of 14 May 1948;
(b) To carry out the specific functions and directives given to it by this Resolution and such additional functions and directives as may be given to it by the General Assembly or by the Security Council;
(c) To enter into consultations with the governments and authorities concerned with a view to achievement of a final settlement of all questions outstanding between them, including in particular the questions dealt with in the General Assembly Resolution of 29 November 1947 and in Part I, Section VIII, Paragraph 4 of the Progress Report of the United Nations Mediator in Palestine;
(d) To undertake, upon the request of the Security Council, any of the functions now assigned to the United Nations Mediator in Palestine or to the United Nations Truce Commission by resolutions of the Security Council; upon such request to the Conciliation Commission by the Security Council with respect to all the remaining functions of the United Nations Mediator in Palestine under Security Council resolutions, the office of the Mediator shall be terminated;”
“4. INSTRUCTS the Conciliation Commission in pursuance of paragraph 3(c) above to enter into consultations with the governments and authorities concerned with a view to delimiting the frontiers in Palestine, taking into account the following general considerations, without excluding any territorial settlement mutually acceptable to the parties;
(a) that there are important elements common to both the Resolution of the General Assembly of 29 November 1947 and the Progress Report of the United Nations Mediator in Palestine;
(b) that certain modifications in the territorial arrangements of the General Assembly Resolution of 29 November 1947 should be considered taking into account Part I, Section VIII, Paragraph 4(b) of the Progress Report of the United Nations Mediator in so far as it may contribute to a peaceful adjustment of differences between the parties;”
D. Delete numbered paragraph eleven and substitute the following paragraph, numbered as indicated:
“10. RESOLVES that the Arab refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so at the earliest possible date and that adequate compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return; and INSTRUCTS the Conciliation Commission to facilitate the repatriation, resettlement, and economic and social rehabilitation of the Arab refugees and the payment of compensation;”
E. Revise the numbering of paragraphs throughout in accordance with the foregoing amendments.
