CHARGE AGAINST GREECE

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24986, 21 September 1946, Page 7

CHARGE AGAINST GREECE

UKRAINIAN MOTION CRITICISED SECURITY COUNCIL DISCUSSION (Rec. 8 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 19. “The Ukrainian' charge against Greece would be a joke if it were not for the memory of similar tactics which brouglit- disaster to the world so recently. The whole world, however, recognised that the latest example was a sham,” said Sir Alexander Cadogan (Britain) at to-day’s meeting of the United Nations Security Council. 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 majofity. The Security Council should examine the border difficulties and the national minorities problem in the Jugoslav-Greek and Bulgarian-Greek, as well as the Al-banian-Greek sections of the border. Mr Gromyko (Russia) opposed the United States proposal. He said it was a tactical manoeuvre aimed at deflecting attention from the Ukrainian charge. Dr. van Kieffens (Netherlands) moved that the Council invite the Sec-retary-General (Mr Trygve Lie) 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.