The Soviet Union and China today notified the United Nations secretariat that they had no objections to the calling of a special session of the General Assembly to discuss the Palestine question.
With French approval already given unofficially, it was expected that the long-awaited formal submission of the request for a special session would be made by Britain tomorrow.
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