UNITED NATIONS: SECURITY COUNCIL AGREES ON SPECIAL SESSION IN MARCH IN PANAMA - UNITES STATES DISAGREES.

Record ID: 337451

  • Title: UNITED NATIONS: SECURITY COUNCIL AGREES ON SPECIAL SESSION IN MARCH IN PANAMA - UNITES STATES DISAGREES.
  • Date: 18th January 1973
  • Summary: 1. TGV INTERIOR U.N. Committee seated 0.8 2. SV Panamanian & Peruvian delegates 0.11 3. SV Secretary-General Waldheim seated next to President 0.16 4. SV Stenographers 0.21 5. SCU Panamanian delegate speaks in Spanish 1.57 6. TV Committee 2.03 7. CU Ambassador Bush speaks in English 2.34 8. GV Committee 2.37 "
  • Embargoed: 2nd February 1973 12:00
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  • Location: UNITED NATIONS
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  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVA6P5C7M1WH5SI83X3BYC2KTV9I
  • Story Text: The United Nations Security Council agreed on Tuesday (16 January) to hold a special session in Panama from march 15 to 21, despite strong opposition from United States Ambassador George Bush.

    Panamanian Ambassador Aquilino Boyd declared that the issue of the Panama Canal Zone would be raised during the meetings. The United States and Panama have been involved in protracted negotiations over the future of the canal zone, which divides Panama in half. Panama wants full control of the canal.

    Ambassador Bush warned that the meeting might be used by Panama for its own interests.

    Ambassador Boyd said the council would be asked to discuss the 'semi-colonial' status of the canal zone. He said the zone's division of Panama socially, politically and economically with a foreign enclave was contrary to the U.N. Charter.

    During debate on the meeting, Ambassador Bush made a statement, a partial transcript of which follows:
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