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329 Department of External Affairs to Hood

Cablegrams 168 CANBERRA, 29 March 1949, 4.40 p.m.

IMMEDIATE CONFIDENTIAL

1. Government endorsed the Delhi resolution [1] placing Indonesia
on the agenda of the Assembly if no satisfactory settlement had
been reached by April. We communicated with New Delhi to ascertain
what action they proposed and suggested we might act together.

Indian Government is prepared to act with us though prefer to act
alone as the host Government of the Asian Conference. In
accordance with the Asian resolution it would be preferable if
item were placed on agenda by all or as many as possible of the
Asian Conference countries acting together, but failing this you
should join with Indian representative [2] and place item on
agenda. We have asked High Commissioner [3] at New Delhi to inform
the Indian Government of this suggestion.

2. An alternative is for Indonesian question to be discussed on
basis of the Annual Report of the Security Council which is
already before the Assembly but this has the objection that the
matter would be considered only as one among a number of different
questions dealt with in the report.

3. A third alternative mentioned by Indians in Delhi was for
Security to be asked to report unless there were certainty of
Council agreement (which there is not) first alternatives are
preferable.

1 Document 144.

2 B.R. Sen.

3 H.R.P. Gollan.


[AA : A1838, 403/3/1/1, xxi]
Last Updated: 11 September 2013
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