U.N. Preparing For Role
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NEW YORK, May 13.
United Nations officials were making contingency plans to provide international supervision of a withdrawal of foreign troops from Vietnam, informed sources said today.
The sources were reacting to a statement from the Sec-retary-General (U Thant) yesterday that if requested by the parties involved “the United Nations could and should play a role in the implementation of any agreement reached.”
A spokesman for U Thant said this could among other things, cover the international supervision of a United States troop withdrawal called for in a ten-point peace plan presented in Paris last week by the South Vietnamese National Liberation Front.
The sources pointed out that the Secretary-General’s statement also left open the possibility of United Nations supervision of elections, although this was not mentioned in the N.L.F. plan. In the light of recent developments in Paris, plans were being drawn up in the United Nation’s Department of Political and Security Council Affairs to prepare a role for the organisation in the implementation of a settlement, the sources explained.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31987, 14 May 1969, Page 17
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