Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-15
Small Nations
Try TO Force
U.N. Expansion

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/. UNITED NATIONS, Dec. IA
2CAP) The ASian-African and
fLatin American groups here
were working on a deal tonight |
Ito ram through resolutions for
Encouragement Of two United
Nations councils over the oppo-
ssition Of all the Big Four
&powers.
They began negotiating after
the United States, Britain and
France told the General Assem- |
.bly's special political commit |
tee the resolutions should be
shelved until next fall-and /
the Soviet Union repeated its
threat to block council enlarge
ment until Communist China |
was seated in the United Ma
tons.
Meanwhile, Albania split with |
the Soviet Union over African
and Asian demands for expan-
sion Of the 11-nation Security
Council and the 18-nation
Economic and Social Council.
Albanian delegate Hahn Budo
said Albania supported these
demands. He said it was mot
fair for one member state to
invoke the position" Of Red
China to justify its stand.
Deal Taking Shape
Informed diplomats said a
deal was shaping up like this
in private African and Latin
American groups meeting out
side the committee room:
Africans and ASians sought
Latin American support for an
Asian-African resolution to en-
large the Security Council to
Is seats and the Economic and
Social to 81 seats.
They promised the Latin
Americans that, If they would
back those resolutions and
drop their own proposals for a
l3-seat Security Council and a
Pascal Economic and Social
Council, the Latin Americans
would get one more seat on the
asSembly's steering committee
and a clear extra seat on the
Economic and Social Council,
and would keep their two exist
ing seats on the Security Coun-
cil-Something the African
AsianS could prevent if they
applied their votes to that end.
Await Official Word
OF the Latin American coun-
tries in the talks, eight had
their governments permission
to accept the Asian African
offer. and IL were still waiting
for instructions.
The group meetings were adj
journed to Monday afternoon
to give the IL time to get in
Structions.
The councils can be enlarged
only by amendment of the
United Nations charter. A
charter amendment requires
the approval Of two-thirds of
all United Nations members in
the General Assembly and rati-
fication by two-thirds. Includ-
ing Britain, Nationalist China,
France. the Soviet Union and
the United States as perma-
nent stockholders on the Secu-
rity Council.
The diplomats said II the So
nation Asian African group
and the 21-nation Latin Amer
leans made a deal they prob
ably could get the two-thirds
vote in the special political
committee and later in the
assembly.
Big Powers Set
They said If the deal fell
through, the pending resolu-
tions probably would be with
held, and a committee would
be set up to negotiate on the
enlargement issue between now
and the next assembly session
next fall.
AS things stood, the big pow
ers all seemed ready to block
the Asian-African amendments
by refusing to ratify them. But
the Africans, sparkplugs Of the
campaign, were hopeful major
ity pressure would bring them
around.
The Soviet Union stuck to
demands that the world organi-
,zation must seat Red China
before it could amend the
charter to award African and
Asian nations the larger rep
reSentation they seek on two
councils.
Soviet Ambassador Nikolai T.
Fedorenko told the general as
sembly's special political COM
mittee the Peking government
is against amending the char
ter to enlarge the councils until
Red China is seated here and,
because of its stand, so is the
Soviet Union.
He denied that Red China
even departed from this posi-
ton, thus brushing aside hints
of a MoSeow-Peking rivalry in
counting African support.