The United States and 12 other nations this week-end introduced a resolution in the General Assembly permitting the U.N. Secretary-General to accept as bonafide ratifications of the convention on genocide those ratifications which contain reservations. It is anticipsted that the United States Senate will ratify the pact with four reservations.
The Assembly’s Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee also accepted a “peckage plan” of the United States, Brazil and Turkey to reconcils differences encountered in drafting a human rights covenant. The tri-nation plan calls for the consideration of a number of additional points including instruments dealing with economic, social, cultural and other human rights.
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