SUMMIT TALKS PLAN

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28489, 20 January 1958, Page 9

SUMMIT TALKS PLAN

States Outside Two Blocs

fN Z Press Association—Copyright! ll p.m.) BELGRADE. January 18. President Tito of Jugoslavia is seeking support for the calling of a special summit conference confined to “non-bloc” countries at which the Western and Soviet blocs would be urged to negotiate on world reliable sources reported today. . President Tito discussed the idea last night with President Soekarno of Indonesia, who is in Belgrade on a two-day visit. The sources said President Soekarno gave his agreement. Jugoslav diplomats are now vigorously canvassing this plan, aimed at a meeting of about eight countries, designed to bring pressure on the Great Powers to start top-level talks. The Tito plan, which has not yet been made public, is that outstanding leaders of countries outside the two blocs could exert powerful influence on the Great Powers and could start a determined drive for negotiations which it would be difficult for the Great Powers to ignore.

Belgrade sources said the plan called for a meeting of the Heads of Governments of Jugoslavia, India, Indonesia, Burma, Egypt and possibly Afghanistan and Ceylon, among other countries. As well as passing resolutions on peace and on the necessity for Great Power talks, the conference would urge the Great Powers to give solemn undertakings renouncing the use of force and the further build-up of armaments, the sources said.