PROMISE BY U.S.

Press, Volume C, Issue 29699, 18 December 1961, Page 15

PROMISE BY U.S.

11m Dollars For Congo (N 2. -PA.-Reuter—Copyright) NEW YORK, Dec. 17. The United States has promised to give an extra 11.000,000 dollars to help keep the United Nations Congo operation alive. America also promised, subject to Congressional approval. to support a 200 million dollar U N. bond issue to help the organisation out of its wider financial crisis. The announcement was made in the U.N. General Assembly's Budgetary Committee during debate on financing the U.N. Congo operation and the UN. peacekeeping operation in the Gaza Strip. Britain and the Soviet Union clashed sharply in the Budget Committee after the British Minister of State (Mr Joseph Godber) said Britain "refused to be ashamed” of its record of sunoort for the United Nations Congo operation. Mr Godber. rejecting earlier Soviet charges of obstruction. said Britain had been the victim of "ill-in-formed slanders" from countries whose record "compared so miserably with ours ’’

Mr A. A Roshchin (Soviet Union! replied bitterly that Britain and other colonial powers were opposing the U.N. operation and lending assistance to the Ka’anga regime.