General view of the 128th plenary meeting of the UN General Assembly as Andrei Gromyko
, Permanent Representative of the USSR
to the UN, reaffirms his country's support of the proposal of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Palestinian Question
to partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish states. The Assembly passed Resolution 181 approving the partition of Palestine by a vote of 33 to 13, with 10 abstentions.
