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1946 NEW ZEALAND

UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND REHABILITATION ADMINISTRATION REPORT BY THE NEW ZEALAND DELEGATION TO THE FOURTH SESSION OF THE COUNCIL, HELD AT ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY, U.S.A., 15 TO 29 MARCH, 1946, TOGETHER WITH A RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL AT THE ADJOURNED MEETING OF ITS FOURTH SESSION, HELD AT WASHINGTON, D.C., ON 9 MAY, 1946

Presented to bath Houses of the General Assembly by Leave

New Zealand, Legation, Washington 8, D.C., 3 April, 1946.. The Right Hon. the Minister of External Affairs, Wellington, New Zealand. Sir, — I have the honour to report on the Fourth Session of the Council of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, held at Atlantic City, New Jersey, from 15 to 29 March, 1946. Twenty-seven months after its /inaugural meeting in the same city, the Council of UNRRA returned to Atlantic City, New Jersey, on the occasion of its fourth session. Delegations were present from all but four (Chile, Ecuador, Iraq, and Paraguay), of UNRRA's forty-seven member countries. During the session Turkey was unanimously admitted to membership, but an application from Albania, though strongly supported by the U.S.S.R. and several other countries, was rejected, after a lengthy debate in both the Committee on Procedure and in Plenary Session, by a large majority of those present and voting. Italy, Austria, and the Vatican were non-member States represented by visitors; also present, as at previous sessions, were official