Attempt To Solve U.N. Financial Problems

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30540, 8 September 1964, Page 11

Attempt To Solve U.N. Financial Problems

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright/ NEW YORK, Sept. 7.

New efforts are to be made in New York this week to solve the United Nations financial crisis, created

When mention was made of a coal-firing plant in the Buller, Mr Rowling said that no agreement had been reached by the senior Ministers on the siting of any plant, if one was considered necessary. Speaking on the harbour scheme, Mr Rowling said that he had inspected the model, perhaps more than the Minister, and never, at any time; had he heard of any alternative from the engineers to the scheme announced by the Prime Minister. He claimed that a moral obligation to carry on with the big job went back to that statement of last August. A suggestion that a deputation meet the Prime Minister was not favoured, but the committee unanimously agreed to ask him to have the main project commenced immediately.

by the refusal of a number of States, including Russia and France, to pay their peace-keeping obligations. Chief S. O. Adebo, of Nigeria, chairman of a special 21-nation working group established by the General Assembly to study the problem, has called members into session for Wednesday. The Secretary-General, U Thant, is to address the group. The Afro-Asian delegations will hold two meetings for this week to discuss the issue. On Tuesday the group is expected to hear a statement on the Soviet position by Mr Platon Morozov, the actingchief Soviet delegate. On Thursday, the United States will set forth its views on the problem, reaffirming its belief that the General Assembly should invoke Article 19 of the Charter and bar the Soviet Union from voting if it fails to pay up. Under this article, Russia and 14 other members risk

the loss of voting rights at the Assembly session which opens on November 10, because their arrears total more than the equivalent of two years’ subscriptions. The Soviet Union owes £l9 million and would have to pay about £2,800,000 to avoid the penalty.

The others in jeopardy are Argentina, Bolivia, Byelorussia, Czechoslovakia, Guatemala, Haiti, Hungary, Paraguay, Poland, Rumania, Taiwan, the Ukraine, Uruguay, and Yemen. France is in the clear until next year. U Thant visited both Paris and Moscow in July and discussed the financial problem with French and Soviet leaders. He said afterwards he had detected no change in their attitudes towards the issue. U Thant said he received the impression from Mr Khrushchev that the Soviet delegation would walk out of the Assembly if the rule were applied. He urged the working group headed by Chief Adebo to make renewed efforts to find a compromise.