U.N. PEACE KEEPING

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30057, 15 February 1963, Page 3

U.N. PEACE KEEPING

Russia Nut Paying

(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright)

NEW YORK, Feb. 13. The Soviet Union has rejected three new proposals for paying coots of United Nations peace-keeping operations, the Associated Press reported today, quoting “informed sources.”

“All three proposals would mean heavier assessments for the United States, which has borne more than 45 per cent, of the costs of the United Nations forces in the Congo and the Middle East. The Soviet Union has refused to pay anything towards those operations.

Members of a 21-nation committee studying bow to finance the peace machinery said Russian rejection of the new plans was the effect of a speech by the Soviet delegate, Mr Platon Morozov, at a meeting last week. Informants quoted Mr Morozov as saying: “Only imperialists and aggressors” should pay for the two forces because they created the need for them.

Sources said the Soviet diplomat claimed that to charge all United Nations members for any future peece-keeping operations wouid be legal only if the money was appropriated by the Security Council rather than by General Assembly recommendation, as is the practice now. The Soviet Union has a veto in the Security Council.