N.Z. Likely To Raise Chinese Issue

Press, Volume C, Issue 29621, 18 September 1961, Page 11

N.Z. Likely To Raise Chinese Issue

(N.Z Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, September 17. New Zealand was expected to be the country to ask that the question of the representation of China in the United Nations be added to the General Assembly agenda for the coming sessions, the Associated Press said today.

A.P. quoted diplomatic sources as saying that the United States delegation at the United Nations had been trying to induce a friendly nation to submit the issue and that New Zealand was likely to make the move. The session will open on Tuesday. The decision to have a friendly country raise the question was part of a United States plan involving a change of tactics in its

handling of the China issue from last year, A.P. said. Previously the United States has been able to sidetrack the issue by getting a vote in the Assembly postponing debate for another year. Buit the United States apparently lacked the votes this year to use the same move, A.P. said.

By having a friendly country raise the issue, it could be classed by that country as of an “urgent and important character,” thus making it automatically a subject for major debate in

the Assembly and subject to a two-thirds majority. This would circumvent a possible Soviet change in plan, under which the issue would be raised by a Communist country in the Credentials Committee. The Credentials Committee could vote to eject Nationalist China, the present holder of the seat, and seat Communist China in her place. Only a simple majority was needed in this committee, compared with a twothird majority in the General Assembly, A.P. said. The United States still wanted Nationalist China in and Communist China out of the United Nations. Whatever happened in the voting in the coming session, the United States would move that the Assembly set up a special committee to study the question and report next year, A.P. said.