Security 139.

1. Committee on Membership considered today the skeleton of the
report. It is proposed that after giving formal account of the
Committee's organisation and method of work the report will
summarize main points of discussion on each applicant. Conclusions
will be limited to a statement whether or not sufficient
information is available for the Security Council to reach a
decision. While not modelled exactly as we would have wished the
report will be factual and will generally meet our views except
that after stating the above-mentioned conclusion it is proposed
to give the attitude of Delegations for or against the applicant.

We protested against including this section but found little
support except from Mexico and Egypt.

2. In view of the proposed references to attitudes of Delegations,
and in order to cover the points raised in your personal telegram
14 [1], we suggest, subject to your instructions, to add a general
reservation on behalf of Australia, covering the following points-
(A) Our view that Assembly should deal with applications in the
first instance;

(B) Our participation in Committee's work as a member of the
Security Council was consequential on decision by majority of
Security Council and is not to be regarded as limiting our right
to re-open the procedural question if we think fit;

(C) We do not regard the fact that any application has been or has
not been considered by Committee as excluding such application
from consideration by other organisations;

(D)Because of our views regarding correct procedure and our views
regarding Committee's functions we limited our participation in
Committee's work to assisting to obtain information concerning
applications and we did not feel called upon to announce either
our support or rejection of any applicant.

3. Report will probably be completed tomorrow night.