U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL
Three Seats To Be Filled
(Rec. 8.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 30.
The United Nations General Assembly will meet tomorrow to elect three new members to the Security Council. Informed sources predicted confidently today that these would be Japan, Canada, and Panama. The Soviet Union and its associated delegations were busy today trying to muster votes for Czechoslovakia, the principal contender for the seat sought by Japan.
Mr Kasily Kuzhetsov, the Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, said last week that to elect other than an Eastern European candidate this year would be a violation of the agreement to distribute Security Council seats on a broad geographical basis. The ballot is secret, but Britain and the United States both have said they will vote for Japan. The seat is the so-called "Eastern European seat,” which the Philippines is occupying this year because at the 1955 assembly she and Jugoslavia—Eastern Europe’s candidate—came to a deadlock in the vote, and an arrangement was made for them to share the twoyear term.
Jugoslavia was the member last year.
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