DEBATE ON ALGERIA

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28198, 9 February 1957, Page 11

DEBATE ON ALGERIA

Long List Of Speeches (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) NEW YORK. February 7. The United Nations debate on Algeria threatens to set a record for this General Assembly in uninterrupted speech making.

As the discussion in the Political Committee approached the end of the fourth successive day today it was announced that 44 delegations had added their names to the speakers’ list.

So far there has been no detailed discussion of the one resolution at present before ’he committee and it is expected that the committee will have to consider more than one draft. The resolution, sponsored by 18 Asian and African nations, "requests France to respond to the desire of the people of Algeria to exercise their fundamental right to self determination.”

According to reliable sources the Arab States are using this as a bargaining point and might be prepared to tone it down in return for support from the remaining members of their own group and some Latin American backing. Tunisia today challenged the French claim that the United Nations had no competence to intervene.

Mr Mongi Slim (Tunisia) told the committee that the assembly had decided in the Hungary question that the United Nations had the right to intervene in a socalled domestic question.