SIX DEFEATS FOR MR VYSHINSKY AT UNO MEETING
NEW YORK, Sept. 21.—The Soviet Foreign Minister (Mr A. A. Vyshinsky) told reporters today that he would like to see the cold war ended.. Earlier the United Nations Assembly’s Steering Committee had rejected six proposals by Mr Vyshinsky to have subjects removed from the Assembly's agenda. The subjects were Greece, Korea, the report of the Interim Committee (the Little Assembly) alleged. violations of human rights by Hungary, Bulgaria, and Rumania, the United Nations field service, and the report of the International Law Commission. In each case only one other nation, Poland, voted with Russia. , Mr Vyshinsky said that the alleged threats to Greece were mythical. “The question should be the ending of the terror of the monarcho-Fascist regime in Greece,” he said. • On the Korean question Mr Vyshinsky alleged that the South Korean Government continued to “exert terror” on the inhabitants of North Korea. ' Mr Vyshinsky described consideration of human rights in Bulgaria, Hungary, and Rumania as interference in domestic affairs. He said that the Assembly had no right to discuss the issues. ” . •
Mr Vyshinsky criticised' the proposed formation of a United Nations field service—formerly proposed by Mr Trygve Lie, Secretary-General of the United Nations, as a. United . Nations guard. .Mr Vyshinsky, said that the proposal was a violation of the Charter, and S said that it was the beginning of an international armed force.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 September 1949, Page 5
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