China Not Likely To Reach U.N. This Year

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31221, 19 November 1966, Page 15

China Not Likely To Reach U.N. This Year

(X Z. Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, November 18. The annual debate on whether Peking should get the United Nations China seat opens in the General Assembly today amid forecasts that the Nationalists will hold on for at least another vear.

Cambodia, a sponsor of the resolution proclaiming the mainland regime as the only lawful representative of China, was expected to open the two-week discussion with a demand that the Nationalists be banished from the United Nations.

Diplomats said Italy would outline a formula for settling the 16-year-old China problem on the basis of “political realities.”

They said support was growing for the Italian plan. It was described as a manoeuvre which would eventually give Peking the China seat and let the Nationalists stay on as representatives.

The resolution is co-spon-sored by Albania, Algeria. Cuba, Congo (Brazzaville), Guinea, Mali. Pakistan, Rumania and Syria. 12-MONTH STUDY

It asks that the Assembly recognise representatives of China to the United Nations and demands that it “expel forthwith the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek.” The Italian plan would have the assembly set up a com-

mittee to make a 12-month study of the China question and recommend a solution.

The main stumbling block would be the fact that both Peking and Taipei have re-

peatedly said they would not agree to any such solution. In spite of the deepening rift between Peking and Moscow, the 12 Communist votes will go for Communist China’s seating in the United Nations when the balloting starts, says United Press International.

But the dozen votes will not be enough to swing the majority away from the Chinese Nationalists, who are expected to retain their seat by a simple majority. BACKERS’ TASK After years of sponsorship by India of a resolution seeking China’s assembly seat for Peking, the Soviet Union took over the main backers’ task in 1960. As relations worsened with the Chinese Communists, Moscow dropped its sponsorship in 1963, and Albaniaregarded as the voice of Peking in the United Nations—, headed a coalition sponsoring a similar resolution which would seat Communst China in all United Nations bodies and expel Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists. Although the Soviet Union refused after 1962 to sponsor the pro-Peking resolution, it . steadfastly voted to seat the Chinese Communists.

More Music. Prince Charles has widened his musical activities by taking ’cello lessons. The Prince, a keen fan of pop music and beat groups, already plays the trumpet, the guitar and sings in the choir at Gordonstoun school in Scotland, where he is a pupil.—London, November 18.