U.N. Mission Leaves Aden Blaming U.K.

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31339, 8 April 1967, Page 13

U.N. Mission Leaves Aden Blaming U.K.

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright)

ADEN, April 7.

A three-man United Nations fact-finding mission left Aden today after complaining that it did not get the co-operation it expected from Britain.

“We did not find the co-operation to which we were entitled,” Dr. Perez-Guerrero said in a statement. He made it clear he was speaking of Britain’s failure to co-operate, the Associated Press reported.

“Britain is the cause of more bloodshed in the world than anyone else,” said the Afghan member of the mission, Abdul Sattar Shalizi.

The mission’s decision to leave Aden was after the refusal of the South Arabian Federal Government last night to allow the mission to go on television with a policy statement.

The acting Information Minister, Hussein Ali Bayoomi, said the mission would have to deal with the Federal

Government, not the British High Commission, if it wanted to use Government facilities.

Dr. Guerrero, in the statement he prepared for his television appearance, said the mission would deal only with the British because only Britain was responsible to the United Nations as administering power of the territory. Still Striking

The Federal-United Nations row broke out amid further violence in Aden, strikebound in answer to nationalist calls for the five days the mission has been in Aden. Late at night a military spokesman said a 12-year-old Arab boy was killed, and another Arab boy and girl were wounded during a cordon-and-search operation round a mosque in the Sheikh Othman area—Aden’s so-called “Little Vietnam.”

Two British soldiers were injured by snipers’ bullets.

Another Arab was killed

and seven more injured in clashes between the two rival extremist nationalist organisations, the spokesman said.

In the four previous days of violence five Arabs were killed and 14 British soldiers,

three policemen and 15 Arabs injured. The United Nations mission was booked to fly from the R.A.F. Khormaksar base on a British Overseas Airways flight, but departure was delayed because of a row over searching baggage. All luggage going through the base is searched for security reasons. The three men of the mission led by Dr. Manuel Perez Guerrero and their 17 aides left their hotel under armed escort after refusing to allow R.A.F. military police to search their luggage. At the Khormaksar base, where 8.0.A.C. planes have been handled for more than

two years, the party waited in the V.I.P. lounge while the matter was being settled.