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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday. Oct. 20, 1964
African Bloc Seeks UN Assembly Head
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—(UPI) The inability of the African group here to agree on a choice for the presidency of the forthcoming General Assembly session is causing concern among many non-African delegations.
The United States, informed sources said, is seeking to break the deadlock over the presidency by suggesting a compromise candidate. Chief S. O. Adebo, the widely-respected Nigerian ambassador here, is being mentioned in private talks as a possible candidate on whom all could agree.
But the Chief, who is suspected by some African states of being too Western-oriented, is no more sure than the current protagonists of getting unanimous support. The deadlock seems likely to continue, perhaps even to the floor of the Assembly, which is scheduled to open November 10.
Involved in the current dispute over the presidency are Ambassadors Omar Adeel of Sudan and Alex Quaison-Sackey of Ghana. A third candidate, Ambassador Nathan Earnes of Liberia, has not withdrawn his name from the race but is generally reckoned to be out of the running.
Adeel was thought to have the African group's approval for the presidency as long ago as August, But Quaison-Sackey, after reading press reports that his supporters were prepared to abandon the race and back Adeel, promptly issued a statement denying he was prepared to withdraw and claiming "wide support" for his own candidacy.
Since then, both Adeel and Quaison-Sackey have lobbied energetically for support among their fellow Africans. Under the "gentleman's agreement" prevailing on the presidency, it is the turn of an African to preside in 1964 and the other members of the U.N. have agreed to let the 34-member African bloc pick its own candidate—who will then be unanimously supported by all other nations.
If the Africans fail to choose between Adeel and Quaison-Sackey—or to choose some other compromise candidate—However, the presidency would go to the floor of the Assembly and be decided in a straight vote of all 112 U.N. members. The last time this happened was in 1962 when Mohammed Zafrullah Khan of Pakistan
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defeated G. P. Malalasekera of Ceylon by 72 votes to 27, with one other vote going to Mongi Slim of Tunisia, the incumbent. The U.N. at that time had only 100 members.
Western diplomats are anxious to avoid a floor fight this year, largely because a vote on the presidency might mean an instant hassle over the question of whether the Soviet Union and its allies have the right to vote.
If the current financial crisis is not solved by the opening of the Assembly, the U.S. has stated its intention of demanding the application of Article 19 of the U.N. Charter, which would deprive the Soviets and their allies of their assembly votes. Article 19 says any member more than two years in arrears with his dues cannot vote. Communist refusal to pay accrued costs of the peace-keeping operations in the Congo and the Middle East has put all the Soviet bloc nations well in the red.
Unanimous nomination of an African president would put off a vote and thus provide more time for behind the scenes negotiations on a compromise solution of the financial question. The U.S. and its allies are therefore passing the word among Africans that a solution to the problem before the assembly opens is necessary.
The Africans remain split between Quaison-Sackey and Adeel, however. Some sources have even suggested that if the current confusion remains, all three candidates will be nominated before the assembly. Barnes, these sources say, may have a better chance in an assembly vote than he does in the African bloc.
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