Major Questions For U.N. Committee

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29021, 9 October 1959, Page 11

Major Questions For U.N. Committee

NEW YORK, October 8. The United Nations General Assembly’s most powerful arm, the 82-nation main political committee will meet today to deal with the three major questions of the current United Nations session—disarmament, outer space, and the problem of Algeria.

Dr. Franz Matsch, of Austria, is chairman of the group, known generally as the first committee. He was elected unanimously last month.

The first business of the committee today will be the election of a vice-chairman and a rapporteur, who formally reports the group’s actions to the full Assembly for approval. It was likely the first skirmish in the committee would come on the order in which items would be taken up, United Press International said. There were only four items on the agenda—the report of the United Nations Korean Commission was the fourth —but the committee’s debates were likely to take longer than those of other committees with more issues to discuss, the news agency said. The key question of disarmament was under an omnibus heading which covered a wide range of topics.

BOEINGS FOR UNION

The Big Four Foreign Ministers’ proposal to transfer disarmament discussions to a 10nation committee next year The Soviet Prime Minister, Mr Khrushchev’s sweeping plan for total world disarmament in four years, and counterproposals by the British Foreign Secretary (Mr Selwyn Lloyd) and the United States Secretary of State (Mr Herter). Ireland’s plan to limit membership in the “nuclear club” to countries which now possess nuclear weapons. The projected nuclear tests by France in the Sahara, which are vehemently opposed by the Arab countries. The deadlocked Geneva talks on suspension of nuclear tests. The committee debate on outer space will take up the Soviet Union’s promised proposal for an international scientific conference next year, a United States plan to create a real and working space committee, and the Soviet boycott of last year’s preliminary efforts to create a space control role for the United Nations. The Algerian problem could provide the hottest and longest debate of the session, according to many observers. Saudi Arabia’s chief delegate to the United Nations (Mr

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Ahmad Shukairy) had a special security guard last night because of an anonymous telephoned threat on his life. The threat was made to a woman secretary at the Saudi Arabian delegation office by a caller who said it would be carried out unless “he stops this campaign against Israel,” the Saudi delegation reported yesterday. “Convey this message to him,” the caller said. “Tell Mr Shukairy to stop this campaign against Israel. Otherwise, he will be killed at the United Nations, in his office, or wherever he may be.”

Mr Shukairy is one of the most outspoken Arabs on the question of Arab-Israeli relations.

The United States ExportImport Bank today announced that it was joining with eight United States commercial banks to lend South Africa 16 million dollars to help South African Airways buy three Boeing 707 jet airliners. The announcement said: “The new jets will make possible an overnight journey from the Union to Europe. They will be used in service between Johannesburg, Salisbury, Nairobi. Athens, Rome, Zurich, Frankfurt anc} London. No additional services are planned for the near future.”

The total cost of the transaction between the airline and the Boeing company of Seattle would be about 26.500.000 dollars. The purchase will include the three Boeing 707’s, plus spares and related equipment, the announcement said

Ambassador. — Mr Tanna Isarapakdi, Thai Ambassador to Australia, has been appointed concurrently Ambassador to New Zealand—Bangkok, October 7.