U.S. Accused Of Misusing U.N.

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31542, 2 December 1967, Page 13

U.S. Accused Of Misusing U.N.

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright)

NEW YORK, December 1.

The Soviet Union accused the United States today of trying to convert the United Nations “into a military appendage of the U.S.A.”

Mr Platon Morozov cited, General, U Thant, take any Korea and the Congo as j major role in organising alleged examples of United peace-keeping. Nations peace-keeping opera- As examples of alleged viotions being used to serve lations of the Charter, Mr United States and Western Morozov cited the Congo ends. operation and “the continued

Addressing the special political committee in a debate on peace-keeping, he insisted that the Security Council alone must be empowered to authorise such United Nations actions and their financing. He categorically rejected an Irish-led plan aimed at replacing the present voluntary financing of peace-keeping missions by a rich-and-poor sliding scale which would have Russia, as one of the council’s five permanent members, share 70 per cent of the bill.

Mr Morozov made it clear the Soviet Union was not prepared to see the Secretary-

occupation of South Korea under the United Nations flag.” But some States were “unwilling to see the United Nations converted into military appendage of the U.5.A.,” he said. The United States representative, Mr L. H. Fountain, said the Soviet Union had four times voted for Security Council resolutions which gave the mandate for the Congo operation. It was “a bizarre argument” that only the council

with its built-in veto had the right to act on peace-keeping, he said.