Indonesia To Send Observers To U.N.
(NZ. Press Association—Copyright) DJAKARTA, September 18. General Suharto said yesterday Indonesia would send an observer team to the United Nations session that opens this week in New York.
President Sukarno, who stood nearby as the announcement was made at his palace in Bogor, had no comment He had earlier said Indonesia would not return to the United Nations until after his conference of new emerging forces. Both President Sukarno and General Suharto appeared in high spirits. General Suharto said the observer team would leave soon for New York, led by Mr Adam Malik, the Foreign Minister.
In New York it was announced that the President i Ferdinand Marcos of the
Philippines would appeal to Indonesia to return to the United Nations in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday. “As the most populous and largest nation in South-east Asia, Indonesia has much to contribute and should certainly be represented. This is why President Marcos has been working so hard for their return,” the Philippine Ambassador to the United States, Salvador P. Lopez said. President Sukarno pulled Indonesia out of the United Nations last year after Malaysia was named to the Security Council.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31168, 19 September 1966, Page 17
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