CRITICISM OF BELGIANS
U.N. Report On Ruanda <N.Z P A -Reuter—Copyright) NEW YORK, March 16 The United Nations Commission on Ruanda-Urundi today charged the Belgian authorities in the Belgian trust territory with favouritism. lack of co-operation, and reluctance to follow the Belgian Government's policies. It also warned of the possibility of fresh violence, in an interim report published , in New York. The three-man commission was set up by a General Assembly resolution last December to supervise elec- , tions to be held in the terri- > tory this year, to attend political conferences to be ( held before and after the elections, and to supervise a referendum on the question ■ of the King of Ruanda. Mwami Kigeli. The same resolution also ■ recommended that elections i set for January be post--1 poned until the commission reported back to the resumed session of the Assem- ! bly now meeting. ! While the commission t was in the trust territory in ; January, a Republic of Ru- • anda was proclaimed, and a I separate provisional Government set up in Urundi.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29467, 20 March 1961, Page 9
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