More U.N. Troops

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29260, 19 July 1960, Page 15

More U.N. Troops

(Rec. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 18. The United Nations has asked five countries outside Africa to send troops to the Congo. The countries are believed to be Ireland, Sweden, Jugoslavia, Burma and Haiti.

In Stockholm, the Swedish Foreign Office said this morning that the United Nations Secre-tary-General, Mr Hammarskjold, has asked Sweden to send 1000 troops to the Congo. These troops probably would be taken from the Swedish contingent in the Gaza Strip, in the Middle East, British United Press said. In another major United Nations move, officials said the 11nation Security Council will take up the Congo situation again, probably tomorrow, at the request of the Soviet Union. The council president (Mr Jose Correa, of Ecuador) said the Russian delegate (Mr Sobolev) did not explain why he asked for the new meeting, but there was speculation he did so because Belgian troops are still in the Congo. The United Nations announcement said Mr Hammarskjold had asked three European countries, an Asian country, and one Latin American nation to send troops to the republic. Under the authority the council gave him, Mr Hammarskjold has been sending a United Nations force of African battalions already amounting to hundreds of soldiers, airlifted from Tunisia. Ghana, Ethiopia, and Morocco. Today's announcement said units of these national forces had already been deployed by Dr.

Ralph Bunche, commander ad interim of the force. Observers said that Mr Hammarskjold had made it clear that the new troops would not be coming from any, of the major Powers.