YUGOSLAV PLAN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27505, 27 September 1950, Page 7

YUGOSLAV PLAN

Mediation Commission Of Small Powers

Rec. 7.15 p.m. NEW YORK, Sept. 25. Yugoslavia asked the General Assembly today to establish a permanent United Nations mediation commission of small Powers to handle international disputes. The commission would be composed of six non-permanent members of the Security Council and six members elected by the Assembly. The permanent members of the Council—the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia —would not be eligible for membership. The commission would be empowered to take note of, and to communicate to interested parties all suggestions relating to the peaceful settlement of a dispute, but would not pass judgment upon suggestions. The Yugoslav delegate, Edward Kardelj, also asked the Assembly to pass another resolution declaring that any State which launched military operations against another State should be obliged to state publicly within 24 hours its readiness to cease fire and withdraw its armed forces from a foreign territory, and to carry this statement into effect provided the other side made a similar statement. The resolution further proposed that a State failing to act in this manner would place itself in the position of an aggressor and would be held responsible for a breach of the peace. Mr Kardelj charged the Soviet Union with leading an aggressive compaign against Yugoslavia. He said incidents were being organised and provoked almost every day along Yugoslavia’s frontiers. Groups of spies and saboteurs were being sent into the country, trenches were being dug along the borders, fortifications were being constructed, troop movements were taking place, and war materials were being sent into frontier zones.