U.N. DEBATE ON FORMOSA

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27639, 21 April 1955, Page 11

U.N. DEBATE ON FORMOSA

“Plan Not Favoured At Present”

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He told a press conference that other h» s A^ r 2. going on and should be permitted to run their full course before the question was submitted to approach through the The obvious question, he said, was whether or not, at the present stage, there was sufficient reason for activity by Security Council, which would contribute to the maintenance of peace and reduction of tension. “For the moment I do not see that any useful purpose would be served by bringing the matter up,” he said, but that is finally for the governments to decide and not the SecretaryGeneral.” Mr Hammarskjold announced that he would be leaving New York for Europe tomorrow and would spend a day or so m London when he would take the opportunity of seeing Mr Macmillan, 7 1 e i , Eritlsh Foreign Secretary, and Mr Anthony Nutting, the British Minister of State.

The Secretary-Gefteral said that he would also be in touch with the FivePower Sub-committee which in London is discussing disarmament. In answer to further questions, Mr Hammarskjold disagreed with reports that new approaches had been made to the problem of securing the release of the American airmen held in Communist China. It would be correct to say that new moves were in progress, but not new approaches, he added. Reuter’s chief United Nations correspondent said that it was believed the new moves referred to private attempts at the Bandung conference to persuade Mr Chou En-lai, the Chinese Communist Prime Minister, to make an announcement concerning the release of the airmen. The Secretary-General said that he regarded the Bandung Conference as being primarily a potential manifestation of something “for the Asian world.” In that sense he welcomed the meeting as “a contribution to our work."

Mr Hammarskjold said he did not look upon the conference as marking an Asian trend to “by-pass” the United Nations.