I.P.U. Meets In Canberra
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright? CANBERRA, April 11.
The council of the International Parliamentary Union, now meeting in Canberra, is to examine the crisis in the Indo-Chinese peninsula.
The executive committee today decided to combine the discussion after considering resolutions forwarded by Russia and Laos. The Russian resolution was backed by a Kremlin statement dated December 9, 1965, accusing the United States of aggression in Vietnam and calling on national Parliamentary groups at the conference to take effective measures to end American aggression and make it possible for the Vietnamese people to settle their domestic affairs without outside Interference. The Laotian resolution accuses North Vietnam of violating Laotian territory by using the Ho Chi Minh trail to pass its armed forces into South Vietnam.
It said the worsening situation brought about by events in the area .dangerously jeopardised equilibrium in South-east Asia.
The council is expected to debate the combined resolution on Friday. Application Deferred
The executive committee deferred an application for membership from Portugal. It said that Portugal should regularise its relations with the United Nations. Officials said later that this
referred not only to the question of the oil embargo to Rhodesia, but also to earlier United Nations resolutions on African territories. The executive suspended the membership of Ghana, Nigeria, the Central African Republic and Dahomey until Parliamentary government
was restored in these countries. Earlier today about a dozen Lithuanians paraded outside
Parliament House, where the conference is being held, with placards protesting against the attendance of the chief Russian delegate, Mr Yuri I. Paletskis. Mr Paletskis, one of the 15 Vice-Presidents of the Soviet Presidium, is also president of the Lithuanian Presidium.
The demonstrators accused him of being responsible for the deportation of half a million Lithuanians to Siberia.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31032, 12 April 1966, Page 16
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