32ND UNGA: CHINESE VIEWS ON GENERAL COMMITTEE ISSUES (UFO STUDY).

[Terry W. Colvin]

R 162222Z SEP 77
FM USMISSION USUN NEW YORK
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 5422
INFO USLO PEKING
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C O N F I D E N T I A L USUN 3084
E.O. 11652: GDS
TAGS: UNGA, CH
SUBJECT: 32ND UNGA: CHINESE VIEWS ON GENERAL COMMITTEE ISSUES (UFO STUDY)
REF: USUN 3056
1. AT CHINESE REQUEST, MISOFF MET WITH SECOND SECRETARY KUO TO DISCUSS
GENERAL COMMITTEE QUESTIONS INVOLVING INSCRIPTION OF ITEMS ON AGENDA
OF FORTHCOMING GA AND THEIR ALLOCATION TO THE ASSEMBLY'S MAIN
COMMITTEES. KUO STATED THAT INSCRIPTION ISSUES WILL NOT BE VERY
SIGNIFICANT FOR CHINA AT THE NEW SESSION "SINCE OUR INTEREST
CONCERNS KOREA AND THERE IS NOT NOW AN ITEM ON IT." HE OBSERVED
THAT A VOTE MIGHT NOT BE NECESSARY ON THE EGYPTIAN PROPOSAL FOR A
NEW ITEM ON ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS, AND PRESSED FOR U.S. VIEW. MISOFF
OBSERVED WE ARE NOT INSRUCTED AT THIS TIME; TRADITION OF LIBERAL
INSCRIPTION AND SOMEWHAT PROVOCATIVE LANGUAGE OF EGYPTIAN LETTER
WOULD PRESUMABLY BE AMONG FACTORS RELEVANT TO A DECISION.
2. KUO SAID GRENADA PROPOSAL FOR A UFO STUDY IS "SILLY", CHINA
WOULD NOT INVOLVE ITSELF IN GENERAL COMMITTEE DISCUSSION OF IT.
HE ASKED WHETHER U.S. WOULD OPPOSE AF GROUP REQUEST FOR INSCRIPTION
OF AN ITEM ON MAYOTTE, TO WHICH MISOFF REPLIED THAT LAST YEAR
FRANCE HAD VOTED AGAINST WHILE U.S. AND NUMBER OF OTHER WEO'S HAD
ABSTAINED. WE DO NOT YET KNOW WHAT POSITION OF FRANCE WILL BE.
3. ON ALLOCATION, KUO INFORMED THAT AF GROUP IS SEEKING SUPPORT
FOR ALLOCATION OF NAMIBIA ITEM TO PLENARY (TRADITIONALLY SENT TO
FOURTH COMMITTEE); CHINA AND ASIAN GROUP HAVE AGREED. MISOFF
SPECULATED THIS QUESTION WOULD BE LOOKED AT IN CONTEXT OF CONTACT
GROUP DISCUSSIONS ON NAMIBIA AND PAST U.S. DESIRE TO LIMIT PLENARY TO
REPRESENTATIVES OF MEMBER STATES. KUO FORESAW REPETION OF 1976
GENERAL COMMITTEE BATTLE OVER ALLOCATION OF CYPRUS ITEM (SENT TO
PLENARY WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF TWO COMMUNITIES INVITED TO SPEAK IN
SPC, TURKISH CYPRIOTS DECLINING TO DO SO).
4. MISOFF REVIEWED CURRENT USUN SOUNDINGS TO DETERMINE WHETHER
THERE IS POSSIBILITY OF SENDING SOVIET NON-USE OF FORCE ITEM TO
LEGAL COMMITTEE. NOTING THAT USSR WILL PRESUMABLY WANT IT HANDLED
BY FIRST COMMITTEE IN POLITICAL CONTEXT, MISOFF ASKED FOR CHINESE
SUPPORT IF MATTER SHOULD COME TO A VOTE IN THE GENERAL COMMITTEE.
KUO RECITED CHINESE VIEW THAT SOVIET ITEM IS, AS CHINA HAD SAID IN
GENERAL COMMITTEE LAST YEAR, "A PIECE OF TRASH". HE DECLINED TO SAY
MORE, INFERENCE BEING THAT ALLOCATION OF TRASH IS MATTER OF COMPLETE
INDIFFERENCE TO PRC.
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