U.N. To Debate Egypt’s Suez Canal Terms
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 11 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 26. Australia and France would lead a Western assault on Egypt’s terms for running the Suez Canal when the United Nations Security Council took up the question today, a Reuter correspondent reported. French delegation sources promised a “tough speech” from Mr Guillaume Georges-Picot, their permanent representative, and Australians said that Dr. Ronald Walker, their chief delegate, would be highly critical of President Nasser’s declaration, deposited' on Wednesday with the United Nations as “an international instrument.”
In general the West would be critical of President Nasser’s failure to fall into line with the six requirements for a Suez settlement endorsed by the council last October.
Western delegations generally would make it clear that they did not regard his unilateral declaration as any substitute for a properly constituted international agreement on the use pf the canal.
Whitehall’s instructions to Sir Pierson Dixon, who is president of the council this month, were not known, but he was not expected to take such a strong line as Mr Georges-Picot and Dr. Walker, the correspondent said. Mr Henry Cabot Lodge, the United States permanent representative, would present a comprehensive report on the long weeks of conversations which Mr Raymond Hare, the American Ambassador, had in Cairo with Dr. Mahmoud Fawzi, the Egyptian Foreign Minister, aimed at obtaining further concessions. No plan was in hand for Security Council action to bring President Nasser’s plans into line with the six requirements for a Suez settlement, but Western sources did not exclude such a possibility.
British informants said they did not expect the council to finish its business today. Other sources thought it would, and said that the outcome would be tacit acceptance of the Egyptian declaration as at least an interim basis for operating the canal. The impression given was that the council might “play it by ear,” in the American phrase, and that developments would depend on the trend of debate. Attitude Of Soviet
No word was available from the Soviet delegation about its intentions. but diplomats recalled that the Russians supported the six requirements—including the key provision that the canal be insulated from national politics. A Washington report said Senator Clifford Case (Republican, New Jersey) urged the Secretary of State (Mr Dulles) last night to seek clarification before the Security Council today of a section of Egypt’s plan. Senator Case referred to a section of the plan under which Egypt pledges itself to accept the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice if differences arise between the parties to the 1888 convention.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28262, 27 April 1957, Page 11
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