CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY SUMMARY

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• Document Creation Date: March 16, 2022
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2016
• Case Number: F-2014-01825
• Publication Date: October 5, 1961

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CURRENT INTMLIOENCH WEEKLY SUMMARY
Verne NATIONS DRVELOPURITTS
The leth UN Oeneral As-
sembly is in its third week of
general debate. Most activity,
however, is taking place in pri-
vate negotiations eneng Wi nee
-
hers on such key ileues as the
adnissiOn Of Mongolia and Mauri-
tania and the appointment of an
interim secretary general.
riseion of Mongolie
The Security Council on
October egait deferred considera-
tion of Mauritania's and Mongo-
lia's meMberehip applications.
All 11 couacil &members acquiesced
in the deferral, repertedly to
alloy time tor further negotia-
teens with Nationalist China on
its opposition to Mongolia's en-
try into the UN. The USSR still
ineieto it will veto Mauritania's
application if HongOlia is re-
jected. Mauritania's applica-
tion IA first on the agenda, but
the USSR has circunmented this
tactical dilemma by threaten-
ing to veto Mauritania's
admit-
sion unless Mongolia haa already
been ateepte4.
The Security Ceeneil will
probably meet again soon on the
problem, teed a Nationalist veto
of Mongolia then could aceelerate
the assembly debate on Chinese
UN representation and eight also
lead to early Soviet efforts to
have the assembly reject Talpel'e
credentials--a vote requiring on-
ly A eimple meierity. The West
wants to have the issue debated
as an "important question" re-
quiring a twt-thirdo vete,
Although spokesaen for the
twelve French African statee in
the Brazzaville group continue
to assert that they will oppeae
Taipei as a bloc if Meuritania
is denied UN membership because
of a Nationalist veto of &lenge-
lia, there are indication that
the grOup is net as unified on
this Issue as scoe spokeenen
claim, Poreign Ministry officials
of Cameroun, Togo, and even
$eaegal have recently expreeeed
opposition to Chinese Commealet
memberehip in the UN. However!
roSentment of Taipei could �
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possibly be such that the group
in the end would vote as a bloc
and Oppose Nationalist China.
The ,Secretary Generalship
The Soviet delegation has
further modified its position
on Dm HammarSkiceld'a successor
en aft effort to neet the Afro-
Asians objections and to gain
their auppert for some form of
the troika principle. The bloc
Is currently pressing a proposal
for the Security Council to MOW
provisional "chief of the sec-
retariat'' plus three deputies�
one each from the Vest, the So-
viet bloe, and the neutral
states. This four-nan directo-
rate would be required to act in
the spirit of "concord" and to
serve until April 1963, When
Rammarskjeld'o term would have
expired.
In hiu explanation of this
plan to Ambassador Stevenson
chief Soviet delegate ZOrin was
ambiguous on the queetion of
enetber the Soviet terminology
involved a veto power for the
deputies. On 1 Oetober, however,
the Soviet delegation published
A formae statement outlining
the proposals and denying that
Moscow envisaged a veto power
by any of the deputiee.
The Soviet delegation has
been seeking support from Afro-
Asians for this latest plan.
The USSR reportedly has agreed
to the appOintMent of Burnare
U Thant as interim secretary
general with full powers.'
The USSR's main purpose
seems to be to avoid a decision
which 'would reconfirm the exist-
ting situation and represent a
defeat for the Soviet contention
that the execrative branch of tho
ojld be reoranizod.
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