S/PV.341 Security Council

Perhaps 1 might make a compromise proposai and suggest that we should meet tomorrow moming at 11 o'clock. . Mr. LEBEAU (Belgium) (translated trom French): 1 shouldlike ta support the suggestion of the representative ofChinathat the Council should meet this aftemoon. The sooner this affair is settled and thesooner a vote is taken, the better for aIl concemed. A meeting held this aftemoon would give other speakers an.opportunity to express their views. Unless the President has cogent reasons, 1 should prefer, with all due respect to.hiswishes, to have a meeting this afternoon, as sllggested by the representativesafChina and Canada. ' Mr. JÈssup (United States of America): 1 ~h"')uld be very glad to suit the convenience of all nlembers of the Security Council. The only reser'; vation 1·shouid·like to make is in·regard to the President's last· suggestion,·since 1 should find it impossible tocome tomorrowmomingand 1110pe that, if we meet tomorrow, it'Will be in the afternoon. But my personalprefere:nce would be that voiced by othermembers of th~Council, namely, that weshould finish thisafternoonif, as 1 .pas nlREE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SECOND MEETING He1d al Lake SUCC6SS, New York, on Thursday 29 ]uly 1948, al 3.30 p.m. President: Mr. D. M.wUILSltY (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic). Present: The representatives of the following countries: Argentina, Belgium, Canada, China, Colombia, France, Syria, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Kingdom, United States of America. The agenda was that of t/~e '341st meeting (SIAgenda 341). 185. Continuation of the discussion on the Indonesian question A.t the invitation of the President, ]VIr. Hood, representative of Austra1iaj Mr. Pillai, represe'IJ.- tative of [ndia; Mr. van Kleffens, representative of the Netherlands; Mr. Chanco, representative of the Philippines, and Mr. Pa1ar, representative of th.e Republic of Indonesia,'toDk their places at the Security Council table• . ' Mr. EL-KHouRI (Syria) : It is to be noted in connexion with the Indonesian question that the decision [8/525] to set up the Committeè ofGood. Offices was taken by the Security Cauncil [194th meeting],-and that the selection of the representatives of whom it was composed was left to the free choice of the parties. It was about-a year aga that this decision was taken. The Netherlands Government chose BeIgium to represent it on the Committee, the .Indonesian Republic chose Australia. The representatives of BeIgium and ,Australia, in turn, with the consent of both the nations involved in the dispute, -agreed to select the United States of America as the third member of the ColDl11Îttee. The Security Council accepted the Committee so composed as its Committee of Good Offices, the duty of which was to try to find a solution of the dispute in a peaceful and conciliatory way. - We consider this to be the procedure accepted and agreed upon by the parties. In addition, we may note with satisfaction that the Committee .Qf Good Offices has done good work during the last year and up to the present time. It succeeded in establishing a protocol of agreement between the two parties on, political questions; and thé mannerin which such questionswereto be solved was agreed upon by theparti.'es in the "Renville" Agreement and the additionalprinciples [8/649]. ~ this conn~on we may consider with satisfaction the procedures,'which 'the two-parties ha~e