FOREIGN RELATIONS,: 1949, VOLIUME Vi


General W.- E. Riley, UN Chief-of Staff, USMO, for the settlement of
differences which may arise under the agreements.
   On July 21 Dr. Bunche submitted a report (Tab A 1) to the SC
 relating to the present status of the armistice negotiations and the
 truce in Palestine. This report concludes, that Dr. Bunche's responsi,
 bilities under various SC resolutions including that of November 16,
 1948 have now been discharged and suggests that such functions as
 remain might be terminated or transferred to the Palestine Concilia-
 tion Commission which was established under the GA resolution of
 December 11, paragraph 2c (Tab B). Dr. Bunche attached a suggested
 resolution as an annex2 to his report, In neither the report nor in the
 resolution does Dr. Bunche make any specific references to the raising
 or the retention of the arms embargo imposed by the SC-on May 29,
 1948. Officers of the Department, however,ý have been advised of
Dr.
 Bunche's personal view that approval of his suggested resolution by
 the SC would in-effect lift the arms embargo.
   The principal question at issue is whether the United States repre-
sentative in the SC should support the. Bunche proposal for transfer-
ring his functions to the PCC and rescinding the earlier truce resolu-
tions of the SC, despite the fact that by so doing the existing SC arms
embargo would be lifted. The State Department considers that there
is no difficulty about transferring Bunche's functions to the Concilia-
tion Commission and agrees that we should now proceed on the basis
of armistice agreements rather than SC truce resolutions. A specific
question is whether the existing UN arms embargo should be retained.
  There appear to be three courses, discussed in detail in Tab E, which
might be followed:
   (1) The US might support postponement of consideration of Dr.
Bunche's report and annex.
   (2) The US might support the adoption of Dr. Bunche's report and
annex, but call for the retention of the arms embargo.
   (3) The US might support the adoption of Dr. Bunche's report
and annex including the cancellation of the arms embargo lsubject to
such minor amendments as may be desirable.
  The following are the principal points for consideration in connec-
tion with the arms embargo question:
  1. While postponement of the issue would appear to be desirable, it
might be difficult to obtain because the Bunche report has been sub-
mitted and it can be assumed that one of the parties or one of the mem-
bers of the Security Council would raise the question in the Council. In
fact, the Security Council is scheduled to meet on Thursday morning
to consider the report.
  'Tabbed materials citedin this memorandum are not found attached. Regard-
ing Mr. Bunche's report of July 21, see editorial note, p. 1240.
  2See ibid.


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