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Australian Government - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Advancing the interests of Australia and Australians internationally

255 Embassy in Washington to Department of External Affairs

Cablegram 190 WASHINGTON, 28 February 1949, 8.23 p.m.

IMPORTANT RESTRICTED

INDONESIA

Your 117 [1] to Australian Delegation to United Nations, New York.

During a Press Conference, 26th February, Van Kleffens made statement, the text of which is contained in our immediately preceding telegram. [2]

It appears Van Kleffens had in mind that the basis for round-table conference would not be the Security Council Resolution [3] nor the whole Cochran Plan [4], but selected points on which tentative agreement was reached, e.g. Hatta's letter to Cochran of 13th December [5], in the conversations between Hatta and Stikker.

1 Document 251.

2 Document 258.

3 Document 168.

4 See Document 237 and 238 in Volume XIII.

5 The text of Hatta's letter to Cochran dated 13 December 1948 is given in United Nations, Security Council Official Records, Third Year, Supplement for December, pp.215-18.

[AA : A1838, 403/3/1/1, xxi]

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