IO Files: US/A/2623
Memorandum of Conversation, by Mr. Harry N. Howard of the Advisory Staff of the United States Delegation
| Participants: | Ambassador Selim Sarper, Turkish Delegation |
| Mr. Adnan Kural, Turkish Delegation | |
| Mr. Harry N. Howard, United States Delegation |
I saw Ambassador Sarper and Mr. Kural briefly at lunchtime, shortly after the eighth ballot in the contest for the Security Council seat between the Lebanon and Turkey.1 They were both very much concerned about the way the situation had developed and felt that the whole trouble had emanated from Mr. Belaunde’s candidacy for the Chairmanship of the Ad Hoc Committee. They stated that this was the one thing which Turkey really wanted at this General Assembly and felt that through the antics of Mr. Belaunde, the Turkish candidacy was now being put in peril. They also felt that a number of Latin American Delegations had not told them the truth at all as to their own position in this matter and stated that they would never forget what had happened this morning. They believed that we must now go down the line to vote for Sir Carl Berendsen for the Chairmanship of the Ad Hoc Committee.2 They also hoped that the United States Delegation would stick with them through thick and thin in their contest for the Security Council.3
- In the voting for the three nonpermanent members which began on the morning of September 29, Brazil and the Netherlands were elected on the first ballot.↩
- Sir Carl Berendsen was Permanent Representative of New Zealand at the United Nations and Chairman of the New Zealand Delegation to the General Assembly.↩
- Voting continued through four more ballots on the afternoon of September 29, with inconclusive results.↩