SECRETARY-GENERAL KURT WALDHEIM HAS DECIDED TO BREAK HIS SILENCE ON THE MIDDLE EAST CRISIS AND CALL FOR AN END TO HOSTILITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-185-2-48-2
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: August 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: October 11, 1973
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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UNITED NATIONS, I`,
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NEIM HAS DECI3~HIS ILENCE ON jE -BE
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OALLY RELIArLE SOURCES SAI TF3 OD Y.
THEY SAID CHE WOULD ISSUE THE APPEAL IN THE SECURITY COUNCIL
OF THAT BODY REFUSED DEBATE ON THE SITUATION TODAY. IF NOT,
IT WOULD BE A WRITTE-. STATEMENT.
ACCORDING TO THE SOURCES, MR. WALD''EIM IS ALARMED BY THE
POSSIBILITY THAT THE CONFLICT MIGHT BE BROADENED BY THE
INVOLVEMENT OF OTHER STATES WHICH SO FAR HAVE KEPT OUT OF IT,
vITH UNFORESEEABLE CONSEQUENCES FOR WORLD PEACE.
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SM4 MIDEAST-WALDHEIM 2 UNITED NATIONS,
THE FORM THE SECRETARY-GENERALS STATEMENT WOULD TAKE
WAS BEING WORKED OUT THIS MORNING WITH HIS ADVISERS.
OBSERVERS DOUBTED THAT HE WOULD ISSE A FLAT APPEAL
FOR A CASE-FIRE, BUT THOUGHT HE WOULD RATHER CAUTION
THE COMPATANTS OF THE RISKS ENTAILED IN A CONTINUATION
OF THE HOSTILITIES.
THERE HAS BEEN SOME PRIVATE CRITICISM OF HIS FAILURE
TO MAKE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE FIGHTING,
BUT INFORMED SOURCES ATTRIBUTED HIS SILENCE TO THE
BELIEF THAT A LARGE MAJORITY OF THE U.N. MEMBERSHIP
EGYPT AND SYRIA AS HAVING SEEN WITHIN THEIR RIGHTS TOO STRIKES
AT THE OCCUPYING ISRAELI FORCES.
THE NEW YORK TIMES IN AN EDITORIAL YESTERDAY STRON^LY
CRITICISED THE SECURITY COUNCIL AND THE U.N. AS A WHOLE
FOR ITS FAILURE TO ACT IN THE EMERGENCY.
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No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/08/02 : LOC-HAK-185-2-48-2
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