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first, for consideration by the Security Council of all membership
applications. Both courses of action are directed to having the Alban-
ian application referred to a committee where it could be held until
mid-summer. Both are premised on our opposing the Albanian appli-
cation if it comes up for consideration by the Security Council before
that time.
  The first course of action is preferred, however, for the following
reasons:
  1. The United States would be pressing for adoption of a positive
proposal which it had itself suggested, to achieve the purposes which
it favors, instead of laying itself open to the charge of merely block-
ing substantive action on Albania by such procedural devices as
opposition to the adoption of an Agenda.
  2. The ground of discussion would be shifted in the Security Coun-
cil from the case of Albania to the general question of membership,
thus serving to prevent what might be an acrimonious discussion with
the Soviet Union on Albania's qualifications.
  3. The resolution proposed for introduction in the Security Council
would serve as an indication to eligible applicants that they are invited
to submit their applications in time for consideration before the
specified date.
  4. The resolution might be agreed upon as a special measure, even
if the proposed rules of procedure providing for a regular procedure
of submission of applications to a committee failed of acceptance in
the Committee of Experts.
  It is understood that if the Security Council adopts the proposed
resolution that action would be in no way modified by approval of the
suggested rules of procedure to replace Rule 34.


BOI.AA/4-2946
Minutes of the Fourth Meeting of the Departmental Team     on
  Admission of New Members to the United Nations, Department of
  State, Washington, April 29, 1946
SECRET
  [Here follows list of names of persons present (8), the same as at
the April 9 meeting, page 371.]
1. The Present Status:
  Miss Fosdick opened the meeting with a description of the situation
as it now exists in New York. She reported that there had been some
feeling that the Secretary-General might put the Albanian question
on the provisional agenda of the Security Council in the next few days.
It was ascertained through Mr. Saba of Egypt,59 however, that
President Afifi 60 was disinclined to put the matter on the provisional

6 Mr. Saba was serving as Chairman of the Committee of Experts at this time.
> Haraz Afifi of Egypt, at this time President of the Security Council.



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