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Unemployment and Full Employment
9. The debate on these items provided a suitable opportunity for the Soviet bloc to put forward their usual thesis of decadent capitalist economies and declining workers' standards throughout the Western World, in contrast to the ever-increasing prosperity of the new democracies and the Soviet Union. The debate was most acrimonious. The Secretary-General was eventually instructed to appoint an ad hoc group of experts to prepare a study for the next session of the Council on methods of maintaining full employment.
Study of Statelessness
10. The impending dissolution of the International Refugee Organisation (I.R.O.) gave the problem of statelessness a new urgency, and the Council requested Governments to provide the necessary legal protection for refugees after the dissolution of the I.R.O. It also requested the Secretary-General to submit a plan for the international protection of refugees to the Fourth Session of the General Assembly. In addition, an ad hoc Committee of representatives of thirteen Governments is to consider the advisability of preparing a revised and consolidated Convention on the international status of refugees and stateless persons and, if considered necessary, to draft a Convention for the elimination of statelessness.
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