UN General Assembly
1959

116. According to the communique issued by them [DC/144], the four permanent members of the Security Council hope that the results achieved in these deliberations will provide a useful basis for the consideration of disarmament in the United Nations. They state that they will keep the Disarmament Commission and through it the General Assembly and the Security Council informed of the progress of the deliberations of the committee. The fact is, however, that this committee has been set up in an unusual manner, without the participation or the knowledge of the United Nations. At its last session, the General Assembly decided that the Disarmament Commission should be composed of all the Member States [resolution 1252 D (XIII)], and now we find that neither the armament Commission nor the General Assembly nor the Security Council was consulted when a committee was set up with a view to exploring avenues of possible progress toward the limitation and reduction of all types of armaments and armed forces under effective international control. The only step taken was to ask that the Disarmament Commission should be convened in order that it might be informed of the decisions reached by the great Powers.