Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Ambassador of Pakistan M. A. H. Ispahani, Foreign Minister of Pakistan Mohammad Zafrulla Khan, and Others
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OCR Page 1 of 6SEORET
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
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Memorandum of Conversation
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DATE: November 17, 1950
SUBJECT: Kashmir Problem; Afghan-Pakistan Dispute; Nepal; Tibet;
Korea.
PARTICIPANTS:
Sir Mohammad Zafrulla Khan, Foreign Minister of Pakistan
The Secretary
Mr. M. A. H. Ispahani, Ambassador of Pakistan
NEA - George C. McGhee, Assistant Secretary
Mr. Mohamad Ali, Secretary-General, Government of
Pakistan
COPIES TO:
SOA - T. Eliot Weil
s/s
FE
Enbassies: Karachi
NEA
CIA
Kabul
SOA
DRN
New Delhi
UNP
S/A
London
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Moscow
1-1493
Sir Zafrulla called at his request at 2:30 p.m. and
remained for 90 minutes.
Kashmir
Sir Zafrulla opened the conversation by remarking that
the last time we had talked the appointment of Sir Owen
Dixon as UN representative in the Kashmir case was under
consideration. He said Sir Owen' 8 personal qualities had
proved to be all that I had predicted, but that despite
Sir Oven's efforts the Kashmir case was again before the
Security Council. Sir Zafrulla said he hoped we would back
all efforts to reach a just settlement. lie said the so
appeared reluctant to proceed; that Pakistan had refrained
from pushing the case; that there must be something concrete
to go before the SC; and that aside from USSR and Yugoslavia,
members of the SC were waiting for a move from the US and
the UK.
Sir Zafrulla said an unfortunate development had been
publication of the Reuters summary of the Dixon report in
a form so garbled that undue emphasis was laid on Sir Owen's
observations that the incursion of tribesmen into Kashmir
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Sir Zafrulla said India was unwilling to agree to demilita-
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rization of Kashmir and that 80 far as partition-plus-
plebiscite in the Vale was concerned, Pakistan was reluctant
to
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