U.N. Observers To Go To Yemen

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30156, 13 June 1963, Page 13

U.N. Observers To Go To Yemen

(N .Z J”. A.-Reuter—Copyright)

NEW YORK, June 12

United Nations observers prepared to leave for Yemen today after the Soviet Union’s withdrawal of its objections to the scheme.

A 10-to-nil vote in the United Nations Security Council yesterday authorised the Secretary-General’s dispatch of the observer force. The Soviet Union abstained from voting.

The United Nations Secre-tary-General (U Thant) had planned to send the force to occupy a demilitarised zone on the Saudi Arabian-Yemen frontier during the last weekend, but his orders were delayed by a request from the Soviet Union for a special meeting of the Security Council. The Soviet request was in line with official Soviet policy that only the Security Council is competent to take actions on international peace and security. The Soviet delegate, Dr. Nikolai Fedorenko, said during yesterday’s brief meeting that in recent years, by the sending of observers to various parts of the world. United Nation forces had been used by the “imperialist powers for the purpose of setting up

under the flag of the United Nations their own control over specific regions.” However, he said, as the United Arab Republic and the Yemen considered that the dispatch of United Nations observers to the Saudi-Yemen border might "hamper the carrying out of further hostile operations against the Yemen,” the Soviet Union would not object to the proposal. A United Nations official later said that U Thant had already sent the observer force its instructions. General Carl Carlsson von Horn, former chief of staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation, who had already been named as head of the observer team, was believed to be in Jerusalem. He and the advance party were expected to move some time today.