Expanded Number S-0861 -0003-13-00001
Title items-in-Peace-keeping operations - Middle East - refugees
Date Created 12/06/1967
Record Type Archival Item
Container s-0861-0003: Peace-Keeping Operations Files of the Secretary-General: U Thant: Middle East
From; League of Red Cross Societies
Date: 12 June 1967
CABLE
TO: U THANT FROM SPINELLI. FOLLOWING RECEIVED FROM LEAGUE OF RED CROSS SOCIETIES , GENEVA
"LEAGUE OF RED CROSS SOCIETIES "WELCOMES CEASE-FIRE ESTABLISHED IN MIDDLE EAST, WHICH WAS REGARDED BY ITS PRESIDENT ITS VICE-PRESIDENTS IN THEIR APPEAL OF 5 MAYT
AS ESSENTIAL PREREQUIS1TE FOR ANY EFFORT AIMED AT FINDING SOLUTION THAT WOULD RESTORE PEACE IN THAT PART OF THE WORLD AS THAT CONDITION HAS FORTUNATELY BEEN FULFILLED
TODAY, I WISH TO ASSURE YOU ON BEHALF OF ALL THE NATIONAL SOCIETIES MEMBERS OF OUR FEDERATION, THAT THE LEAGUE IS PREPARED, IN ACCORDANCE WITII ITS TRADITIONAL PROCEDURES AND IN CLOSE COLLABORATION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS COMMITTEE,
"TO ENSURE ITS RESPONSIBIIJTIES IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE TO ALL CIVILIAN VICTIMS OF THE CONFLICT. HOWEVER IT CONSIDERS THAT PRIORITY SHOULD
BE GIVEN HAVING COUNTRIES DRAW UP A GENERAL INVENTORY OF NEEDS FOR EACH CATEGORY OF FOLLOWING: FIRST, CIVILIAN POPULATIONS} SECONDLY, OLD REFUGEES, THIRDLY, NEW REFUGEES. TO THIS END, IT SEEM DESIRABLE THAT A LOCAL BUREAU .SHOULD BE SET UP TO CENTRALIZE INFORMATION, PREPARE AN OVER-ALL PROGRAMME, AND CO-ORDINATE VARIOUS ACTIVITIES. IN VIEW OF LARGE NUMBER OF PARTIES CONCERNED WITH ASSISTANCE, I TAKE THE LIBERTY 0? SUGGESTIMG TI1AT UNITED NATIONS SHOULD TAKE INITIATIVE IN THIS FIELD OF COLLABORATION WITH INTERNATIONAL . INSTITUTIONS, RED CROSS AND NON GOVERMENTAL AGENCIES CONCERNED.
BEER"
SECRETARY--GENERAL, LEAGUE OF RED CROSS SOCTETIES "
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