MOVE TO SEAT CHINA FAILS

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31231, 1 December 1966, Page 17

MOVE TO SEAT CHINA FAILS

(N.ZP. A.-Reuter—Copyright)

NEW YORK, November 30.

The General Assembly yesterday defeated by 57 votes to 46, with 17 abstentions, a move to admit China to the United Nations a marked swing against Peking since last year’s 47-47 tied vote.

The entry of new member states in the last year accounts for the majority in favour of Formosa retaining the Chinese seat in the General Assembly and the Security Council.

Earlier, the assembly again upheld the United States contention that any change in Chinese representation must

be subject to a two-thirds majority decision. This, too, was accepted by a wide margin—by 66 votes to 48 with seven members abstaining. China’s increasingly hard line in world affairs and the activities of the Red Guards were widely thought to have influenced the outcome. As in previous years, Albania, Cambodia and the other sponsors of United Nations recognition of Peking insisted on including in their resolution a proposition that the assembly also eject the representatives of the Nationalist regime from Formosa.

. This also alienated a number of members, who indicated that they might otherwise have supported the draft.