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Note:<\/em><\/strong> Excerpts from the meeting record are reproduced here. The complete text is available in the original source.<\/p>\n 1. Mr. PLIMPTON (United States of America) pointed out that the question under discussion was entitled “Report of the Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East”. That report (A\/ 4478<\/a>) should therefore be the focus of the Committee’s consideration and action. The Committee did not need to adopt a resolution unless something in the report made it necessary. And in point of fact, no such action was needed; resolution 1456 (XIV)<\/a> extending the Agency’s mandate, made any such further decision by the Assembly unnecessary until the sixteenth session, when the mandate would be reviewed. Nevertheless, over a period of several months, representatives of some of the Agency’s major contributors and from the Arab countries had been negotiating to work out an agreed draft resolution. The talks, in which the United States had participated, had taken place in an atmosphere of goodwill and frankness but had not led to complete agreement. Contrary to the opinion of the United States delegation, the representatives from the Arab countries had urged strongly that a draft resolution be adopted. In deference to their views, the United States delegation had expressed its willingness to support a draft if the terms were essentially non-controversial and did not go beyond the terms of previous resolutions. The United States delegation had taken that position because the General Assembly would, in any event, review the Agency’s mandate in five months time, with all the far-reaching considerations that might be raised.<\/p>\n 2. The representatives of the Arab countries had felt that a draft resolution breaking entirely new ground was necessary and accordingly five Powers had submitted the draft resolution (A\/SPC\/L.61\/Rev.1) now before the Committee. 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