TALKS ON A-ENERGY

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29994, 1 December 1962, Page 11

TALKS ON A-ENERGY

Seat For China Rejected

(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) NEW YORK. Nov. 29.

An Australian move today defeated a Communist bid to get Mainland China a seat at the next international Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy.

The Communast members of the United Nations sought to open the conference to all states who wanted to attend, but Australia proposed thait only United Nations members and members of specialised agencies be invited. The Australian resolution was adopted by 49 votes to 11, with 26 abstentions and 24 other members absent from the debate. China, East Germany, North Vietnam and several other Communist States were therefore barred from taking pant in the conference.

Mr T. M. Tchemyshev, of the Soviet Union, declared that the "discriminatory attitude towairds many states is not in the interests of true co-operation." He said the assembly's action would deprive several States of the opportunity of making a useful contribution to the conference.

The General Assembly then decided without opposition to hold the conference—the third—in Geneva for 10 days late in 1964. The resolution was proposed by 12 countries including the United States and the Soviet Union.