UN General Assembly
1949

56. It was on the basis of those decisions of principle that the Conciliation Commission had studied the problem and established the proposals which had been submitted to the Assembly (A/973). The French Government had considered them with great care and would state its attitude at the time of the detailed discussion. In examining those proposals it would be guided chiefly by its desire to respect and to put into practice the spirit of the aforementioned resolution, which constituted a formal and authoritative decision on the highest international level. But although the aims were clearly defined, the means were less so. In the opinion of the French Government, what was most important was that the solution should be viable and that it should therefore be designed less to satisfy juridical preferences than to guarantee the practical objectives which the United Nations had set before itself. It should also do no more than impose the various indispensable obligations which, moreover, should be reasonably acceptable to all the parties concerned.