Security Council to consider aid call by Mozambique

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34104, 17 March 1976, Page 21

Security Council to consider aid call by Mozambique

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NEW YORK, March 16.

The United Nations Security Council has been summoned to meet at 8.30 a.m. tomorrow, New Zealand time, to consider a request from Mozambique for aid against Rhodesia. Mr I homas Bova, of Benin (formerly Dahomey), who is the Council President for March, called the meeting after private consultations among all 15 Council members. Diplomatic sources say that a rough draft for a resolution is under discussion which would condemn Rhodesia for intervening in Mozambique, commend Mozambique for imposing full United Nations economic sanctions against Rhodesia’s white-minority regime, and call for United Nations and governmental help in meeting its resultant needs.

Mozambique moved into line with the sanctions when, on .March 3, it closed its border with Rhodesia, giving up revenue from the carriage of imports and exports between Rhodesia and the Indian Ocean. Diplomatic sources are speaking privately of the need to supply Mozambique

with between s6orn an: SBom to begin with, to make) i good its losses. . I In Washington, the Senate i Foreign Relations Committee (was told by a former United i States Ambassador to ZamIbia, Mr Robert Good, that 'the Secretary ot State (Dr I Henry Kissinger) was only I encouraging diehard elements in the white-minority Government of Rhodesia when he said that the United States would not tolerate further military intervention by Cuba in southern Africa or elsewhere. "So long as we give the Rhodesian regime the impression that when the end of the day comes we will be their allies against outside attempts to install a blackmajority government, this surely must have a deterrent effect on their willingness to negotiate,” Mr Good told the committee. A Democratic member of the House of Representatives, Mr Andrew Young, said that Dr Kissinger’s statement had seriously jeopardised the possibility of

a negotiated settlement, and -had been interpreted by the I Rhodesian Prime Minister (Mr Smith) as meaning that )he had United States support. Mr Young, who has been prominent in the American civil rights movement, said that the United States would suffer inevitable failure if it were perceived to have lined itself up with an illegitimate racial government. Speaking in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 6, Dr Kissinger said that the United States would not accept the introduction of Cuban tfiilitary forces in other parts of the world, and President Ford has made similar declarations. Both Mr Young and Mr Good told the Senate committee that United States policy should be to begin to encourage legitimate black "liberation” groups in Rhodesia and elsewhere in southern Africa, and to consider the possibility of giving these nationalist movements humanitarian or economic aid.