SECURITY COUNCIL
Bid To Break Deadlock (Rec. 11 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 17. The United Nations General Assembly today will make a further bid to break the deadlock between Poland and Turkey for the Security Council seat which Japan will vacate at the end of this year. But in advance of the secret balloting, diplomatic sources said they could see no prospect of a decision. They expected that, after about six ballots—there have been 38 already at previous meetings of the Assembly—the Assembly president. Dr. Victor Belaunde, of Peru, would propose postponing further efforts until a later session. Commonwealth delegates have proposed privately that Poland and Turkey should agree to split the two-year term between them, as Jugoslavia and the Philippines did in 1955 in a similar deadlock. But the Polish delegation flatly refused to accept this compromise. A United States spokesman said last night that Poland was taking this position at the behest of the Soviet Union, which wanted to “rule or ruin” the Security Council. With the scheduled end of the current Assembly session little more than two weeks and a half away, diplomats are showing increasing concern over the possible outcome of the contest.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29055, 18 November 1959, Page 15
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