On This Day in History AUG 31, 2025
August 31, 1947, U.N. Special Committee on Palestine Holds Final Meeting
The United Nations set up UNSCOP in April 1947, to make recommendations about next political steps
August 31, 1947 UNSCOP (the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine) has its final meeting.
The United Nations set up UNSCOP in April 1947. Its purpose, like previous commissions that visited Palestine, was to investigate underlying causes for communal unrest and to make recommendations about next political steps.
The committee has representatives from 11 countries: Australia, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Guatemala, India, Iran, the Netherlands, Peru, Sweden, Uruguay and Yugoslavia.
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