The U.N. Economic and Social Council, which was charged by the last session of the General Assembly with drafting a convention an genocide for submission to the next Assembly meeting, yesterday referred the question to the social committee of the Council, which will decide the procedure for preparing the draft.
Dr. Alberto Area-Parro of Peru asked for further clarification of the action the U.N. would be able to take against those guilty of genocide. If any government encouraged genocide it obviously would be ready to fight the rest of the world, he said. In such a case, would the United Nations be prepared to take action against that government.
Dr. Arca-Parro submitted the following resolution for consideration: “Crimes against health, life and property which are perpetrated against one or more persons and which are carried out, individually or collectively, following secret or open decisions with the purpost of inflicting unlawful punishment upon persons belonging to groups which are subject to racial, religious, political or any other kind of discrimination, should be included into the international covenant on genocide.”
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