Russia Forced Into Open

Evening Star, Issue 25701, 26 January 1946, Page 7

Russia Forced Into Open

SECURITY COUNCIL WILL HEAR CASES

Persia's Complaint Included

M So Tired of Sovief Charges," Says Bevin

[(Rec. US a.m.)' LONDON, January 25. The Security Council of the United Nations to-day agreed to discuss the Russo-Persian dispute and the Soviet and Ukrainian protests concerning the presence of British troops in Greece and Indonesia at its-meeting on Monday. Earlier, in a letter to the president of the Council, the leader of the Russian delegation* M. Vyshinsky, had announced that the Russian Government was categorically opposed to consideration by the Council of Persia's complaint of Russian interference in Persia's internal affairs. Mr Ernest Bevin said he was tired of the charges made by Russia, both in the Assembly and in private. He had no objection to the fullest investigation and discussion of the Russian complaint regarding Greece. In the case of the Ukrainian complaint concerning Indonesia, that was primarily a matter for the Dutch Government. The Security Council also agreed to a proposal by Mr Stettinius that the Joint Military Staff Committee should meet in London before February 1.

,- . M. Vyshinsky, in his letter to thd 'president of the Security Council, said:— I " The allegation by the Persian delegation of interference by Russia in the internal affairs of Persia is in contradiction with reality and lacks any foun-

elation. The Russian delegation considers it necessary to point out that the Persian Government is trying to use the presence of foreign troops in order to represent this fact as a violation of Persian sovereignty, and as the cause of the events taking place in Azerbaijan. \