Meeting of Security Committee April 23, indicated some improvement
in atmosphere and resulted in solution of several immediate
problems:-

1. Republican account of steps taken to prevent infiltration of
military personnel, hostile broadcasts and other infringements of
truce agreement were accepted as satisfactory by Dutch. This
follows numerous allegations by both parties of various kinds of
truce infringements.

2. Sub Committee on prisoners of war reported agreement to
commence releases immediately. Next week 1500 TNI prisoners will
be released by Netherlands and 6 Dutch prisoners (total number
held) by Republic.

3. Other Sub Committee reported agreement to commence two way
movement of families of military personnel of both sides who are
separated from family heads by status quo lines. Movement to
commence next week.

4. Netherlands agreed to long standing Republican request to
discuss widening of demilitarized zones and a sub-committee has
been established to discuss this.

5. Republic agreed to discuss disposal of German and Japanese
personnel in Republican territory for which purpose a sub-
committee has been set up.