Russia Calls Security Council Meeting

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30740, 3 May 1965, Page 13

Russia Calls Security Council Meeting

(N.Z.P.A.- Reuter—Copyright)

NEW YORK, May 2.

The United Nations Security Council will meet urgently tomorrow to consider a Soviet charge of “armed interference” by the United States in the Dominican Republic.

Russia formally requested a debate following America’s action in sending troops to Santo Domingo, capital of the republic.

In Washington, the United States Secretary of State, Mr Dean Rusk, cancelled plans to fly to London for the S.E.A.T.O. ministerial meeting because of the “continuing seriousness” of the situation in the republic. The United States was not expected to oppose a Security Council debate.

The Soviet representative at the United Nations, Dr. Nikolai Fedorenko, sent a four-line note to the Security Council President, Mr Radhakrishna Ramani, of Malaysia, asking for the meeting.

The council had already been scheduled to meet tomorrow to debate the situation in Rhodesia. The 11-member council is expected to deal with the Soviet request before continuing with the Rhodesian issue. The Soviet Government had instructed its United Nations representative to demand the meeting, the Soviet news agency, Tass. reported. Tass said: “The world has witnessed new aggressive acts of American imperialism against a Latin-American country where a reactionary junta enjoying the support of

the United States has been overthrown.” Tass said that on April 28 President Johnson ordered American troops to land in the Dominican Republic and on the same day, 400 United States marines invaded its territory. On the following day, the number of American troops reached 1700. The intervention was being carried out under the hackneyed pretext of “defending the safety” of United States citizens in the Dominican Renublie, Tass said. However, it was obvious that the landing of United States Marines in the Dominican Republic was nothing but an act of direct aggression against the people of this small country, said the agency. It was a gross interference in the republic’s internal affairs, and yet another attempt to keep in power a reactionary, anti-popular dictatorship regime, which suited the interests of the United States, and to suppress the aspirations of the people of

the republic for freedom and independence, it continued. Tass said the intervention constituted a new manifestation of the United States policy of iniquity and aggression. “Of late, one aggressive act by the United States has been following another: the widening of the armed intervention in South Vietnam, the bar-

I barous bombings of the territory of the democratic Repubi lice of Vietnam, the piratical - raids on towns and villages in ■ Laos, the landing of Arneri- . can-Belgian paratroopers in : the Congo, and now the armed i invasion of the territory of one more sovereign state—i the Dominican Republic,” Tass - said.