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Seventy-five years ago Zafrullah`s proposal

2024-05-20
FLUSHING MEADOWS: Speaking during the debate on Libya in the UN General Assembly Chaudhri Mohammad Zafrullah, Pakistan Foreign Minister called for the establishment of a Special Committee to examine the Libya problem and report to the September session of the General Assembly. The Pakistan Foreign Minister declared that the Resolution adopted by the Political Committee `runs counter to the wishes of the populations concerned.

He added: `Can the delegate of the United Kingdom on the basis of knowledge derived from Britain`s associations with these territories during the wa[r] and since the end of war as their administering authority, honestly and sincerely affirm that Italian Trusteeship would be acceptable to and would be welcomed by the indigenous populations of Tripolitania and Somaliland? `Pakistan bore no ill-will towards Italy.

But apart from its unfairness and injustice would this proposal of the Political Committee really help Italy?` [He] then formally presented a draft resolution calling for the establishment of a seven-member Special Committee to examine the problem and report to the General Assembly. ... News agencies