501.BC Indonesia/12–2748: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Acting United States Representative at the United Nations (Jessup) at Paris1
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4943. For Jessup: Reur niact 6466, Dec. 27. Colombian resolution appears to Dept as pointless and confusing in view fact GOC assisted by mil observers reporting on situation to Council. We therefore believe you should abstain on Colombian resolution unless there are overriding considerations not known to Dept. We agree, however, some further SC resolution may be useful and for your private info and not to be used as yet in discussions we are considering on urgent basis possibility offering resolution containing recommendations along lines basic proposals of US draft agreement. While further SC attempts to reverse present military situation are unlikely to be effective, we feel there is still opportunity to make constructive proposals for settlement with chance of success.
Further instructions will be forthcoming.
- Repeated in telegram 700, December 28, 2 p. m., to Batavia.↩