Cyprus On Assembly Agenda

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30814, 28 July 1965, Page 17

Cyprus On Assembly Agenda

(N Z P A -Reuter —Copyright: NEW YORK, July 27.

A record 97-item agenda was published yesterday for the twentieth session of the United Nations General Assembly which will open on September 21.

The agenda, provisional until the steering committee and the plenary body have approved the inclusion of the questions proposed for debate, includes, for the first time since pre-independence days, two items on Cyprus. The first of these was proposed by Cyprus itself and the other by Turkey. The Turkish item has the sub-heading “The Grave Situation Created in Cyprus by the Policies Pursued Against the Turkish Community." Cyprus, so far has been a subject for the Security Council, which last month extended until the end of the year the mandate of the United Nations peace force. The Cyprus Government proposed last year that the issue go to the Assembly, where there is no veto.

But because of the paralysis of the world body’s nineteenth session, it was not debated. Cyprus wants United Na-

tions support for its contention that the Zurich treaties are incompatible with the United Nations Charter and should be abrogated. Most of the perennial political issues were again included in the agenda, among them disarmament, nuclear testing, Korea, Palestine refugees, South Africa's race policies,

South-west Africa and colonialism.

Reflecting increasing United Nations interest in social affairs, as distinct from its long-time concern with economic problems, (he agenda includes items on the “world social situation," housing, building and planning, marriage laws, population growth, racial discrimination, religious intolerance, the right of asylum, freedom of information, human rights, and the world campaign for universal literacy.

The situation in Oman has again been put down for debate, at the request of the Arab States, and the Philippines has submitted the question of Tibet. Two items have been put down for South-west Africa, the first covering reports of the Special Committee on Colonialism and the second a report by U Thant on special education and training programmes for the mandated territory.