COMMUNIST AIMS

Press, Volume C, Issue 29469, 22 March 1961, Page 20

COMMUNIST AIMS

S.E.A.T.O. Sees No Change (N.ZP.A.-Reuter— Copyright) BANGKOK March 20. There was no reason to believe the Communist bloc’s basic unity and aim of world domination was affected by apparent disputes in tactics between Peking and Moscow. Nai Pote Sarasin, secretarygeneral of the South-East Asia Treaty Organisation, said in his annual report published today. The report will be considered by the Council of Ministers of S.E.A.T.O. in Bangkok on March 27. Answering questions at a press conference, the secre-tary-general said there was “no prospect of a division between Moscow and Peking at this moment.” Referring to the civil war in Laos, which Mr Sarasin said would be the most important item on the council agenda, the report said that “Communists and insurgents in that country had been able to strengthen their position very considerably with consequent dangers to free nations in South-east Asia.” The Communist insurgency in South Vietnam had been intensified, the report said. An expected trade offensive from Communist China had not developed, "chiefly owing to internal difficulties,” but the economic offensive through financial and technical aid »y Communist bloc countries had increased.