690D.91/8–251: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the United States Representative at the United Nations 1
67. Re Kashmir (urtel 173, July 31):2 Dept believes wld be better not fol line suggested by UKDel, by which joint UKDel–USUN approach wld be made to UN Secretariat requesting Secretariat have Nimmo include observations on troop build-up in Kashmir in regular bi-monthly report on cease-fire line, this report to be made public.
Making public any possible violations of Kashmir cease-fire line at this time might well add fuel to already tense situation in subcontinent. Moreover, when we proposed UK–US shld suggest SYG might ask Chief Milob to report any build-up in Kashmir (para 3, Deptel 44 to USUN, July 19), we thought we might gain valuable info, either on confidential or public basis. Now, however, our info indicates no real troop increment in that area, so principal purpose of this instruction has been obviated by events.
Ask UKDel if agree with this reasoning and FonOff reaction.3
- Repeated for information to London as telegram 772, to New Delhi as 282, to Karachi as 127, and to Canberra as 35.↩
- Not printed.↩
- Telegram 718 from London, August 3, reported that the Foreign Office was agreeable, subject to the concurrence of the Commonwealth Relations Office, to refrain from having General Nimmo include in his reports observations of Kashmir troop movements (690D.91/8–351).↩