Secretary-General Trygve Lie has not received any request for a special session of the United Nations General Assembly to consider the Palestine dispute, he told a press conference this evening.
Asked to comment on a report that Britain and the United States have come to an agreement on the procedure the British will follow in submitting the issue, Mr. Lie said that no country has communicated with him on the matter, but that he expects that the problem will be brought to his attention in the near future. He also stated that the Jewish Agency has not officially approached him on any question concerning the discussion of the Palestine issue by the U.N.
Mr. Lie announced that he has dropped his plan to send a fact-finding commission to Palestine prior to a discussion of the problem in the General Assembly. Finally, he stated that he could not recommand the holding of a “skeleton” special session of the Assembly.
Earlier, addressing the opening session of the United Nations Trusteeship Council, Mr. Lie touched briefly upon the Palestine issue. Pointing out that it was among a number of non-self-governing territories for which no trusteeship agreement had been submitted to the Council, he said: “It seems probable that the question of the future status of Palestine will come before the United Nations at an early date.”
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