GENEVA CONFERENCE BULLETIN - VI

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• Publication Date: April 17, 1999
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OCI NO. 4096 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
COPY NO. 1 OFFICE OF CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
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Other UN delegates now willing to speak on Korea: The
Netherlands, Ethiopia, Colombia and the Philippines have'indicated
a willingness to speak in the plenary sessions on Korea. Foreign
Minister'Eden does not plan to speak until "something concrete is
proposed."
The UN hopes that plenary sessions on Wednesday and Thursday
can be avoided. A specific proposal may be ready for presenta-
tion on Friday. There is some concern over the problem of keep-
ing the negotiations moving while the American plan is being
cleared with Rhee.
Rhee's attitude on new Korean proposal still uncertain:
In meetings with resident Rhee on 2, 3, and 4 May, Ambassadors
Briggs and Dean attempted without success to gain the president's
concurrence to plan B, which the United States hopes to present
this week at Geneva. This plan is in accord with British and
French views on unification, and gives the UN side some hope for
a show of unity and of regaining the propaganda initiative. The
essential points at issue are (1) the holding of nationwide
elections, rather than only in the north as proposed in the
original UN presentation, and (2) the holding of elections
prior to a complete withdrawal of foreign forces.
Rhee's long-standing position has been that elections should
be held only in the north to fill vacant seats in the South
Korean assembly, and that Chinese troops must be withdrawn and
the North Koreans disarmed prior to elections and unification.
Last November he asserted his willingness to have nationwide
elections conducted under the South Korean constitution for a
new president, but not for a new constituent assembly or a new
government.
It is still uncertain whether Rhee will accept the plan.
In the meeting on 3 May, he indicated that he would agree to
holding all-Korean elections for both a new assembly and a new
president, provided the original plan to fill the vacant
northern seats in the assembly were carried out first and
providing the people so voted in a plebiscite. The next day.
he inquired whether, in the event he accepted the plan, this
would be the UN's last compromise.
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De can fears Paris will seek immediate cease-fire to save
Dien aen u; e merican embassy an aigon reports that
Frenc o m ssioner General for Indochina, Dejean,greatly fears
that "certain ministers" in the Paris government will press for
an immediate cease-fire in order to save Dien Bien Phu. Dejean
is afraid that following the 3-4 May council of war in Hanoi,
General Navarre will conclude that a political agreement is the
only way to save the fortress and suggest this policy to Paris.
Such a recommendation from Navarre would
able support probably find consider-
within the French National Assembly, particularly
among those expected to attack Laniel this week for not pressing
hard enough for a solution at Geneva.
French insistence on a solution being found at Geneva is
pointed up by a report from Ambassador Heath now in Geneva.
He indicates that Bidault told Secretary Dulles on 3 May that
he was charged with making sure that no Frenchman would be
killed in Indochina after the close of the Geneva talks.
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