UNO DISCUSSION ON GREECE

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24985, 20 September 1946, Page 7

UNO DISCUSSION ON GREECE

Northern Frontier.

Situation

INVESTIGATION PROPOSED (N.Z- Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 7 p.m.) NEW YORK. Sept 18. At a meeting of the Security Council to-day Mr Herschel Johnson (America) said that the United States opposed the Russian resolution which declared that most of the charges against Greece had been proved true. He hoped the Russian motion would be rejected by a large majority. The United States Government felt that there was “an unsettled and disquieting situation” along Greece’s northern frontiers. Therefore, before its final decision, the Security Council should examine the border difficulties and the national minorities problem in that area. Such an investigation should include the Jugoslav-Greek and Bulganan-Greek, as’ well as the Al-banian-Greek sections of the border. Mr Johnson said the United States Government did not believe Greece was primarily responsible for the troublesome situation along its frontiers, but the United States was deeply concerned about the tension there ana would welcome discussion on whether an examination of the facts would be helpful. Sir Alexander Cadogan (Britain) said the Ukrainian charge against Greece “would be a joke if it were not for the memory of similar tactics which brought such disaster to the world so recently. The whole world recognises that the case as brought here is a sham.,” Mr Gromyko (Russia) opposed the United States proposal. He said it was a tactical manoeuvre aimed at deflecting attention from the Ukrainian charge.

Mr Paul Hasluck (Australia) op*posed the United States suggestion, saying it was simply a way out of a difficult and complicated political situation.

Dr. van Kieffens (Netherlands) moved that the Council invite the Secretary-General to notify the Greek, Albanian, Jugoslav, and Bulgarian Governments that the Council, without pronouncing any opinion on the question of responsibility, earnestly hoped that the Governments would do their utmost to stop the regrettable frontier incidents by giving appropriate • instructions to their national authorities and making sure that these instructions were rigidly enforced.