IO Files: US/A/C.1/1675
Memorandum of Conversation, by Mr. Joseph S. Sparks, Adviser, United States Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly
Subject: Indian Reaction to the “Essentials of Peace” Draft Resolution
| Participants: | Sir Girja Bajpai, Secretary-General of the Ministry of External Affairs, India |
| Mr. Joseph S. Sparks, United States Delegation |
I took a copy of the preliminary draft of the “Essentials of Peace” resolution to Sir Girja at his hotel this morning and left it with him for his study. His only reaction was that which he had told us previously, that he hoped we would see our way clear to removing the “Notes with regret” paragraph. He said that if we were prepared to remove that paragraph, he thought that it would be very difficult, if [Page 116] not impossible, for countries in a position such as India’s to do other than support the resolution.
This afternoon I met Sir Girja again at the Airport as he was taking off with the Prime Minister1 for London, and told him that the “Notes with regret” paragraph had been removed. Sir Girja said that he was very very pleased, arid that he anticipated that there would be no real difficulty about India’s supporting the resolution in its present form.
- Pandit Jawahralal Nehru.↩