THE UNITED NATIONS: THE WORLD AS

A DEVELOPING COUNTRY

REPORT

TO THE

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE

BY

SENATORS CLAIBORNE PELL, Rhode Island, and
JACOB JAVITS, New York

MEMBERS OF THE DELEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES
TO THE 25TH SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
THE UNITED NATIONS

JUNE 1971

Printed for the use of the Committee on Foreign Relations

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1971

A. Individual Report of Senator Claiborne Pell_

I. Internationalization of the Seabed_

(a) By way of background__.

(b) General Assembly action-

(c) Seabed arms control___

(d) The seabed issue and oil lobbyists.

II. The prisoner-of-war issue_

III. The refugee question__.

(a) The Vigilant incident..

IV. Ambassador Yost and the U.S. delegation_.

V. Appendix..

B. Individual report of Senator Jacob Javits...

I. Second United Nations development decade.

II. Chinese representation__

III. United Nations Legal Committee_

IV. Appendix....

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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

Hon. J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT,

Chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations,

U.S. Senate.

DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: As the two Delegates appointed from the Senate, we had the privilege and the responsibility of representing the United States in the twenty-fifth General Assembly of the United Nations. From our vantage point as working delegates, we became acutely aware of the crisis which pervades the United Nations and keeps it from performing the vital and elevated role envisioned by its founders a quarter century ago. We also became acutely aware of the great potential for human advancement latent in the United Nationsand of the critically urgent need to reform and revitalize the United Nations so as to enable it to deal with the mounting sea of troubles confronting the international community.

This report to the Senate of our experiences as Delegates, and of our findings and recommendations, consists of two sections. The first section is a joint report on overall findings and recommendations. The second section consists of individual reports on our respective Delegation assignments.

Because of the far-reaching recommendations contained herein, together with those recently issued by the Lodge Commission, we respectfully suggest that the Committee on Foreign Relations give serious consideration to holding public hearings for the purpose of reviewing the United Nations and United States participation in it.

Sincerely,

CLAIBORNE PELL,
JACOB JAVITS.

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