UNCLASSIFIED
ENCLOSURE V
DRAFT RESOLUTION
APPROVED IN SUBCOMMITTEE ON PETITIONS BY VOTES
OF AUSTRALIA,BELGIUM AND HAITI; INDIA AND
USSR VOTED UNO" AND FRANCE ABSTAINED FROM
VOTING
™he Trusteeship Council
Having examined the petition from the Marshallese
Hold-Over Committee (T/Pet.10/29) and from Mr. A. Elliott
Castello (T/Pet.10/L.1) concerning the conducting of nuclear
testing in and near the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands;
Recalling its Resolution 1082 (XIV), which deals with
certain aspects
of nuclear testing carried on within the area
‘of a strategic trust territory in particular,
Having regard to the view of the Marshallese petitioners
that “experiments with lethal weapons" should cease, or if
they are considered "necessary for the eventual well being of
this world and cannot be stopped or changed to other areas....
all possible preceutionary measures be taken before such
weapons are exploded";
Nothing the statement of the Administering Authority
shat it has decided that further nuclear weapons tests are
necessary in the interest of maintaining international peace
and security,
Recalling also the recommendation of the Council “that
if the Administering Authority considers
interests
1t necessary in the
of world peace and security to conduct further nuclear
experiments
in the Territory,
it take such precautions as will
ensure that no inhabitants of the Territory are again endangered,
including those precautionary measures requested by the
petitioners",
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Enclosure V