{"id":178466,"date":"1947-05-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T20:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=178466"},"modified":"2019-03-11T20:40:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T20:40:43","slug":"auto-insert-178466","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-178466\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestine question &#8211; Consideration of the First Committee &#8211; Letter from GA President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">FIRST COMMITTEE<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY DATED 2 MAY 1947<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">REFERRING AN ITEM FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF THE FIRST COMMITTEE<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">2 May 1947<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Dear Mr. Pearson:<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>The General Assembly at its 70th plenary meeting adopted the following Resolution:<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;margin-left:40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">1.<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>THE GENERAL COMMITTEE having considered at its 28th meeting the item on the Provisional Agenda (document <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/091AD0EED94ED1008525689B00743E6A.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">A\/293<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">) entitled &#39;constituting and Instructing a Special Committee to Prepare for the Consideration of the Question of Palestine at the Second Regular Session&#39; submitted by the Government of the United Kingdom,<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;margin-left:40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>RECOMMENDS that the item be placed on the Agenda of the General Assembly and referred for consideration to the First committee.&quot;\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>You are hereby informed, therefore, that the First committee, of which you are the Chairman, is seized of the above question, and I request that you arrange for an early meeting of the Committee for the purpose of completing the election of its officers, and the beginning of its work.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" background=\"#000000\" width=\"100%\" style=\"text-align:left;margin-left:initial;margin-right:auto;\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\" valign=\"top\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\" valign=\"top\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Sincerely, yours,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Oswaldo Aranha<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">President of the General Assembly<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\" valign=\"top\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Mr. L.B. 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