191. Memorandum From Secretary of State Rusk to President Kennedy 0
SUBJECT
- Follow-up on Your Address to the United Nations General Assembly—United Nations Aspects
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[Page 421]VII. United States Plan for United Nations Decade of Development (Item D of NSAM 101)1
Subsequent to your speech, the Department has revised and cleared with appropriate Government agencies a detailed position paper on the United States initiative for strengthening the capacity of the United Nations to act in the fields of economic and social development (Tab C).2 Our representative made a major speech which was very well received on October 6 in Committee II in which he outlined our proposal for a UN Decade of Development.3 Consultations have been held at the General Assembly with friendly delegations and within the framework of the OECD in Paris and in London. Reactions have, on the whole, been positive.
Our present concept is that the Secretariat of the United Nations in cooperation with the Managing Director of the Special Fund (Paul Hoff-man) would prepare and submit before the close of the present General Assembly detailed plans and recommendations for the organization and implementation of the UN Development Decade. Mr. Hoffman supports our proposals and stands prepared to act accordingly. We plan soon to introduce a resolution in Committee II embodying our objectives and assigning a particularly important role to the Special Fund.
- Source: Department of State, S/S-NSC Files: Lot 72 D 316, NSAM No. 101. Confidential.↩
- See Document 189.↩
- Tab C, a position paper entitled “United States Economic and Social Initiative at the 16th Session of the General Assembly—Organization of United Nations Development Decade,” September 19, is not printed.↩
- Reference is to U.S. Representative Klutznick’s statement, which is printed in Department of State Bulletin, December 4, 1961, pp. 939-947.↩
- Printed from a copy that bears this typed signature.↩