MAY CONTINUE OPPOSITION

Chronicle (Levin), 19 September 1946, Page 5

MAY CONTINUE OPPOSITION

Press Assn.

RUSSIA AND TREATY COMMISSION DECISIONS

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Received Thursday, 11.55 a.m. PARIS, September 18. Russia has served notice that she might continue to fight against the Tre'aty Commission decisions, which she opposed whenever they came up 1'or approval at the plenary session, and possibly ultimately before the Foreign Ministers' Council, says the Associated Press correspondent. This occurred when the Bulgarian political and territorial committee, by eight votes to five, approved the British and American amendment providing for the referenee of disagreements over the enforcement of the Bulgarian Treaty to the International Court of Justice and rejected the Russian proposals favouring direct negotiations.

M. Novikov (Russia) thereupon for the first time invoked the conference rub under which a committee minority of more than onethird may submit a minority report to the plenary session. If the majority is still less than twothirds, its measure carries less weight when the treaties go for final approval to the Big Four. . Agency correspondents say that M. Novikov earlier pointed out that Russia was one of the countries which did recognise the obligation and nature of the International. Court's jurisdiction, for whichreason she could not agree to British and American proposals. Mr. Gladwyn Jebb (Britain) said

that under the Russian plan for settlement of disputes nothing would happen. Disputes might go, on for ever. Colonel Hodgson (Australia) argued that the Russian proposal would never work. The Council of Foreign Ministers for a year had been trying without success to settle dozens of disputes scattered through the treaties. Colonel Hodgson withdrew all the Australian amendments, including those providing for the referenee of all disputes to a special treaty executive council. The Bulgarian Committee has completed all its work, except a decision on the British proposal to protect the rights of Jews.