NEW CHINA’S ATTITUDE

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27128, 26 August 1953, Page 9

NEW CHINA’S ATTITUDE

Round-Table Talks Sought HONG KONG, August 25. The Peking Radio announced today that China’s Prime Minister (Mr Chou En-lai) had issued a statement saying that the Korean political conference should take the form of a round-table conference and should include the two parties to the armistice agreement and the other countries concerned. It should not take the form of negotiations by two sides.

Mr Chou said that the participation of other countries would require the concurrence of both sides to the Korean armistice.

Mr Chou issued a four-point programme which the Central People’s Government deemed necessary to make clear its stand on the political conference question, now being discussed in the Political Committee of the United Nations. The first point favoured a roundtable conference.. The second said that in accordance with the armistice agreement, discussion on the withdrawal of all foreign troops, namely the Chinese, from North Korea, and the United Nations from South Korea, should take precedence over the discussion of other problems. The third said that the Chinese Government considered the statement by Mr Vyshinsky at the United Nations debate on August 8 in accord with the above-mentioned principles and the Chinese People’s Government therefore supported Mr Vyshinsky’s statement.

The last point was that the exclusion of China and North Korea from the discussion in the Political Committee of the United Nations was unreasonable. and the' Chinese People’s Government would hold the United Nations responsible for notifying Korea and the Chinese side of suggestions and resolutions adopted to facilitate the smooth convening of the political conference.