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223. Paper Prepared by the Assistant Legal Adviser for United Nations Affairs ( Meeker )

s. With an international organization of 99 members, and having the prospect of further additions, A Rule of Procedure should perhaps also be adopted to ban speeches on the admission of new members. A whole afternoon was taken up by the admission of Nigeria. The welcoming speeches could have taken some other form not occupying the Assembly’s time, and the debut of the Nigerian Prime Minister could have been made in the plenary’s general debate. [Footnote in the source text.] definite measures to preserve order and efficiency are called for. Unless States exercise part of their sovereignty in s…

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Source	Foreign Relations of the United States
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	US Department of State, Office of the Historian
Date	1960-10-10
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, United Nations and General International Matters, Volume II
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v02/d223
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Record ID	`frus:frus1958-60v02/d223`

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223. Paper Prepared by the Assistant Legal Adviser for United Nations Affairs ( Meeker ). Foreign Relations of the United States, 1960. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1958-60v02/d223.