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raised by the Soviet amendments on which no agreement had been 

 reached are the question of what was required for strict international 

 control of atomic energy, whether international control, including the 

 prohibition of atomic weapons, was to be established by one treaty or 

 several and in the latter case, the question of priorities, or the question 

 of the right of the proposed Authority to conduct research in atomic 

 weapons. As was the case with the first report of the UNAEC, the 

 second report had been approved by 10 members of the Commission, 

 but this time only Poland had abstained, while the Soviet Union had 

 registered opposition. 



Because of more pressing matters on its agenda, like the Palestine 

 question or the India-Pakistan question, the Security Council de- 

 cided not to consider the second report of the UNAEC. Deliberations 

 continued in the latter institution through the remainder of 1947 and 

 the spring of 1948. These discussions prompted the UNAEC third re- 

 port to conclude that an impasse had been reached, and to request that 

 UNAEC negotiations be suspended. A resolution for Security Council 

 approval of all the reports of the UNAEC was vetoed by the Soviet 

 Union in the summer of 1948 ; in the fall, General Assembly consider- 

 ation of the question of atomic energy control resulted in a 40-6— 1 ap- 

 proval of the majority plan, but the value of this non-binding reso- 

 lution lay in propaganda more than in support for successful collabora- 

 tion. Further negotiations in the UNAEC, which were continued at the 

 insistence of the General Assembly, rapidly deteriorated, and by No- 

 vember 1949, the General Assembly agreed to suspend the work of the 

 UNAEC. 



