CRISIS FOR U.N.

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30603, 20 November 1964, Page 13

CRISIS FOR U.N.

Little Hope Of End (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) NEW YORK, Nov. 19. The United Nations Secretary-General, U Thant, said yesterday he saw no immediate prospect of an acceptable solution to the United Nations financial crisis. He said the crisis threatens “the future of the organisation and the continuity of its work.” U Thant’s statement was made in an interview with a Finnish radio correspondent. Efforts continue in private to avoid an open clash between the Soviet Union and the United States at the General Assembly, opening in two weeks’ time. America insists that the Soviet Union lose its vote in the Assembly unless it pays off enough of its debt to the United Nations. (Members more than two years in arrears, as is the Soviet Union, risk loss of voting rights under article 19 of the Charter.) U Thant said the United Nations also had to face "a crisis of confidence—confidence in its growth, utility and effectiveness.”