Adoula Ends Visit To U.S.

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29744, 10 February 1962, Page 11

Adoula Ends Visit To U.S.

(N Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright)

NEW YORK, February 9.

The Congolese Prime Minister (Mr Cyrilie Adoula) left New York for home last night after a six-day visit to the United States, during which he addressed the United Nations, and conferred with President Kennedy and the United Nations Secretary-General (U Thant).

Asked what he thought his visit had accomplished, he replied: ‘‘l was very happy with my visit because it allowed me to clarify certain misunderstandings and to dissipate the misapprehensions which existed among the American public and even within official circles. “It also made it possible for me to establish closer contacts with the United Nations organisation, with the help of which we have prepared a programme of action in the Congo. “What has been achieved is a certain clarification which made it easier for the American public to under-

stand the reason for the (United Nations Congo) operation and in particular the policy of aid through the United Nations."

Asked to elaborate on the "programme of action,” he said: “Firstly, the United Nations action programme concerns the solution of the problem of Katanga: secondly, the question of the reorganisation of the Congo Army; thirdly, the help, economic and financial we may receive from the various nations through the United Nations. '1 hope the President is able to obtain immediate financial aid from the Congress, because the Congo needs help immediately" Mr Adoula said. Soviet Co-operation He told reporters he hoped that now, aa not in the past, the Soviet Government would see it proper to co-operate with the United Nation* in the Congo. The “New York Times” said the Congolese Prime Minister spent his last day in the United States in consultations with diplomat* and officials centred on the Congo's two main problem* —to speed solving the evacuation of the remaining mercenaries from the secessionist Katanga province, and to bolster the Congo'* economy.