The Colombian representative at the U.N. Security Council tonight formally proposed a resolution calling for a special session of the General Assembly to “reconsider” the Palestine partition decision.
The American delegation in an informal statement to the press declared its opposition to the Colombian proposal.
The Colombian resolution also calls for the deferment of the termination of the Palestine Mandate to July 15, and for a corresponding change in the timetable of the British military evacuation of Palestine.
The resolution urges the establishment of a Security Council committee of five-two representatives of the Big Bowers and three from the leaser powers — to explore the possibility of reconciliation between the Jewish Agency and the Palestine Arab Higher Committee.
In proposing this resolution, the Colombian representative made it clear that the Council cannot count on his vote for implementation of the partition decision. Colombia has not changed its stand taken at the General Assembly, on the partition resolution, he said.
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