S/PV.393 Security Council

1 believe that the Council is willing to postpone consideration of the draft resolution proposed by the delegation of Colombia until tomorrow. Is the Council prepared to hold a meeting tomorrow for that purpose? Mr. Ex-Kuourr (Syria): I understand that the meeting of the Security Council tomorrow morning will be for consideration of the Palestine question. In the afternoon we may hold another meeting to vote on the Colombian resolution on Indonesia, or possibly we may be able to vote on this at the end of the discussion of the Palestine question. The first item tomorrow morning will be that of Palestine; is that so? The Preswent (translated from French): As the representative of Syria has proposed, we might include in the provisional agenda of tomorrow’s meeting, first, the question of Palestine, and secondly, the question of Indonesia. It would be understood that we should return to the question of Indonesia as soon as we had finished considering the Palestine question. Is that the. meaning of the Syrian representative’s proposal? Mr. van Roryen (Netherlands): Perhaps as the Council has now scheduled a meeting at which the second point of the agenda will be the Indonesian question, it would be right for me to. answer at this time the question put to me by the. representative of China. He asked me whether I would be prepared to give certain further clarifications of the statement I made in _ the name of the Netherlands Government at the beginning of this. meeting. Obviously, I cannot -do so now, but I shall be'very happy to report ‘to my. Government what has been said at this ‘Meeting, and the opinions which have been expressed. ‘However, the matter is a very complicated one and although I am sure my Government will try its utmost to have ready a further. declaration in the form of a clarification, I am not sure that. it will be ready for tomorrow, Government and the Netherlands Government alone is able to decide upon the matter—and that, as far as competence is concerned, is correct—I think all the representatives on the Council will realize that certain discussions and exchanges of views with the authorities on the spot are necessary and essential. elles au premier réellement de des tains pourrait, pertes convient peux rité Pégard Je taines déclaration. ont As far as the resolution [S/J150] itself is concerned, that is not as easy a matter as it looks on the surface. I think that all those who really have at heart the avoidance of further bloodshed will realize that in certain sectors and in certain circumstances it is conceivable that a sudden stopping of the action might lead to even greater loss of life, and I feel that that problem, too, should be studied. I cannot hide from the Security Council that T am rather surprised by the reaction of some of the representatives to the statement I made. I think that some very positive assurances which were given in the statement have only too readily been overlooked. Only a few of the representatives have pointed to them. données vateurs Le fais - Let me take one example, namely, the assurances with regard to the despatching of the military observers back to the field. The representative of Australia said, if I am not mistaken, that those observers seemed to be at the mercy of the Netherlands authorities, being recalled 4 les y tance, conformer sécurité que at one moment and sent back at the next. [ think that we have done our best here to comply with the wishes of the Security Council and the Committee of Good Offices, and I think my statement made that clear. Colonel Hodgson seems to be somewhat difficult to please and Le faire, Je gent, his reaction is not very encouraging. I shall however report to my Government and try to have a further statement at the earliest possible moment. i déclaration Aprés sentant pensable favais “Mr. Pazar (Indonesia): After having heard the statement of the representative of the Netherlands, I think it is necessary to make a statement which a moment ago I decided not to-make. concernant Pinjonction de que cédeate vernement qu The statement by the representative of the Netherlands with regard to his Government’s reaction to the Security Council’s . cease-fire resolution only proves the truth of the warnings we gave in our previous statement to the Council [389th meeting]. What the Netherlands Govern- : ment is aiming at now is nothing. but playing | for time. Its representatives are using delaying tactics. and follawine the same Tine thev have One point made by the representative of the - Netherlands in his statement to the Security Council today calls for immediate comment on my part: the statement that military operations undertaken by the Netherlands in Indonesia have not met with serious resistance. May I remind the Council of two important points in this regard? In the first place, as I pointed out last week [3892h meeting], the form that our resistance in Indonesia is taking, and will take, is that of guerrilla warfare. One does not expect ‘spectacular results within the first week of a war from a guerrilla defence, especially when it is employed against a large and heavily equipped army which has had, moreover, the advantage always accruing to the aggressor in a sneak attack. , In the second place I wish to remind the Council, in the words of the-Committee of Good Offices, that all news coming out of Indonesia since'the start of the Netherlands military action is subjected to a double censorship, military and political. In the face of that strictly imposed censorship, one could easily assume ‘that all statements by the Netherlands Government regarding military developments require corroboration from at least one other source. I may add further that I have received information to the effect that the population of every major city and town in both West and East Java is up in arms against the Netherlands army of occupation, and that, furthermore, after the Government of East Indonesia resigned in pro-. test against the Netl--rlands military action, the Netherlands authorities in Indonesia clamped - down a complete censorship on all information coming out of East Indonesia, and also imposed a ban on all meetings there. . I leave it to representatives to ‘the Council to decide for themselves with how much. pleasure my countrymen are greeting this latest resort to force by thie Netherlands. As to the release of the fourteen officials mentioned by Mr. van ports indicate that they have been taken to an unknown destination. From the very outset our faith in the Security Council has been a part of the policy of my Government. The Committee of Good Offices has transmitted to the Council strong testimony of the extent to which my Government has pursued this policy, even to the extent of endangering our military security. We hope therefore that the Security Council will assure full implementation of its orders, bearing in mind the issues raised by the Committee in its latest reports. de de offices gnages ment si sécurité. du cation présent mission The Present (translated from French): Does anybody else wish to speak? The next meeting will be held at 10.30 a.m. parole? a The meeting rose at 7 45 p.m. 2, Keskuskatu HELSINKI Alsina 500 Buenos Ames \USTRALIA—-AUSTRALIE FRANCE H. A. Goddard Pty. Lid. 255a George Street Sypney, N.S. W. - JELGIUM—BELGIQUE Editions A. Pedone 13, rue Soufilot ' Parts, Ve GREECE—-GRECE Agence et Messageries de Ja “Pleftheroudakis” Presse, S. 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