PERSIA DISCUSSES BY SECURITY COUNCIL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 14067, 23 May 1946, Page 3

PERSIA DISCUSSES BY SECURITY COUNCIL

IfH ERAN MISSION FOUND NO TRACE OP SOVIET FORCES i STETTINIUS MAINTAINS ONLY PART OF AZERBAIJAN COVERED (PORT NEITHER DEFINITE NOR CONCLUSIVE r SAYS SIR ALEXANDER CADOGAN London, May 22. ‘After discussing' Persia for two hours and a-half to-day the r ity Council in New York adjourned on a proposal by the f rh delegate that the council meet again when called on at *iuest of any member. ' 1 The adjournment motion, when adopted, referred to a date , t]ie near future. ® The chairman opened the discussion by reading a letter Ala., the Persian Ambassador. This said that a mission ■ntfrom Teheran to Azerbaijan had made extensive inquiries *yf a dozen important centres, including Tabriz, and they und no trace there of Soviet forces or equipment. , 15 ji r gtettinius, for the United States, maintained. that the wian report covered only part of Azerbaijan. Sir Alexander Cadogan, for Britain, supported the view of tf r gtettinius, saying that the Persian report as presented was |itithfT definite nor conclusive. The council, he said, was bound ilook at the situation with som% degree of suspicion. jlr Ala then told the council that the Persian Government j confidence in the Soviet Union but he stressed that Persia u not, as yet, complete authority in Azerbaijan. He agreed L{ the telegram sent by the Persian Prime- Minister was inconclusive and did not point out clearly whether or not all troops had been withdrawn from the whole of Azsrlaijan. M. Gromyko, the Soviet delegate, was not present at today’s session. A message from Teheran says that the Persian Government - intends to send a mission shortly to Azerbaijan to resume negotiations. A broadcast from Tabriz, the chief town of Azerbaijan, aid to-night that a mission had left for Azerbaijan to make Inquiries about the recent incidents on the Azerbaijan frontier.