DUTCH MUST HAND OVER

Chronicle (Levin), 31 January 1949, Page 5

DUTCH MUST HAND OVER

(N.Z.P.A.-

— Reuter*

Security Council Order In Indonesian Dispute

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Received Sunday, 7 p.m. NEW YORK, Jan, 29. The Security Council has called on the Netherlands theJ xeihState the Indo-. nesjan Republican Government immediately. This wd|- part of a resoiution spoiisored by the United States, China, Cuba and Norway. ,T.he Council also adopted these qther? seetions of tho resoiution: Firstly, the immediate.cessation of hostilities - both by the Dutch and the Indonesian guerrillas; .secofirdly-. the release of all Republican leaders arr.ested by the. 'Dutch since Decehiber 17;- thirdly, tin ihterim Federal regime be-set up ih Indonesia by Alareh 15g f ourthly, elections to be held by Glcto* ber 1 for a Constituent Assembl'' fifthly, the transfer of sovereigrity fro .. the Netherlands to the. United States of Indonesia be cbnxpleted by Juljr 1, 1 956 > 6ixthly, the establishment , of a United • Nations -Commissioit for InddnOsia witu poWer tO ' observe the,, eleetions and recommend to Avhat exfeiit Dutch troops jhould. be withdrawn and areaS'. retuni ed.to the Republiean Adpiinistration. No vote - was taken on the resoiution as.'a. whole -.but as each paragraph'had obtained the required majority, the Council President, General McNaugh' tori, announced that th'e resoiution hji-J been earried. : j The Couxicil • rejected a Russian amendment ealling on the Dutch to withdraw their troops immediately from Republican territriry. Mr. Jacob Malik, proposing the Russian amendment, said • that • unless thc Dutch were ordered to* withdraw to positions held under the Eenville Agreement, the resoiution would merely gi.yc Security Council • blessing to aggression. Dutch Reaetion . Dr. Wan Royen (Netherlands) . said the resoiution eontained a dfastic and deep interference in the , domestie affairs of a State which no country contemplated* when sigiiing the United Nations Cliarter. . The Netherlands ob jected maxnly to these points of the re solution, firstly, the reinstallation of a Repubiican Government in Jogjakarta: secondly, the powers*. given to the United Nations indonesian Cpmmissiori t4 deal with the . establishment of a Federal interim Govern&ent, tp 'hplding of qleptjpp,s J ^.the_, trgnsfer of sovereigui^^ At)je.;.-prih'eiple oi' majorityCrirmf jfe? propp^ed eommjssion; £ ourthly, the powers given the eqinmission to make reeommendations to" the Council for the return of certai n areas-. to Jhe . Republican Government apd Ah'stfie. yvithdfawal of Netherlands troops. Tlfe'se Tbwdrs woiild riirfpiibitiy authorise the Council to make decisions on these points. Dr. Van Royen said he wanted to assure alk nations. presented at the New Delhi conference that "we Are not as f^olish and shortsighted as not to see wjiat is going on in Asia. The issue at sfake is not whether Indonesia will be come independent or not— that has long been pledged by us— but the question i§j what strucriifef ,and A under . whai leadership the ne%k* independent State will set out. We are firmly determined not to leave behind a State in which one partieular minority in Java dominated all other groups and areas of the archipelago, nor a State ruled b\ the dictatorial group which, throughou: the* negotiations, vdolently opposed thv holding of - elections in its own tern tory. "