UNP files, lot 59 D 237, “Membership”
Memorandum of Conversation, by an Adviser of the United States Delegation to the General Assembly (Bonsal)
- Subject:
- Australian Resolution Regarding Membership of Laos and Cambodia in the UN
Mr. McNicol told me that the Thai had agreed to co-sponsor the Australian resolution on UN membership for Laos and Cambodia. On the other hand, the Burmese have rejected an Australian request to join in sponsoring the resolution, the Burmese position being that they cannot make a special gesture in the direction of Laos and Cambodia without making a similar one for Nepal and Ceylon.
Mr. McNicol said that he supposed that we would not wish to co-sponsor the Australian Resolution of Laos and Cambodia. I replied that while we certainly do not wish to give the impression that we were not heartily in favor of Laos and Cambodian membership, we also wished to make our position equally clear regarding membership for Viet-Nam and for the other 11 countries which seven members of the Security Council as well the majority of the General Assembly have favored for membership.
(It is my understanding that the Department is preparing to send the delegation an expression of its opinion on the Australian resolution.)