Memorandum from the State Department to President Harry S. Truman, with Related Material
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OCR Page 1 of 8ADDF OFFICI/ COMMUNICATIONS TO
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON 25, D.C.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
WASHINGTON
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E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402
State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979
SECRET SECURTTY INFORMATION
By NLT- DEB NARS, Date 3-25-85
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
Subject: Korean Resolution in the United Nations
General Assembly
As you are aware, the United States, along with 20 other
sponsors, has introduced into the General Assembly a resolution
affirming and endorsing the position taken by the United Nations
Command on non-forcible repatriation of prisoners of war.
The Indian Delegation to the General Assembly has been
very active in attempts to formulate a substitute resolution
which would be acceptable to the Chinese Communists. It appears
that the Indians are maintaining contact with the Chinese
Communists at Peking on the text of various proposals. While
the Indians have thus far apparently supported the principle
of non-forcible repatriation, they have been attempting to find
a formulation acceptable to the Communists and to ourselves which
would assuage the alleged Chinese Communist fears that the
United Nations Command will coerce and restrain prisoners
desiring to return from doing so.
The UK has now formulated a text of a resolution based on
discussions with the Indians. This resolution, a copy of which
is included in the attached telegram 180 of November 12 from
New York, in the opinion of the Secretary and the Department
goes so far to meet the Communist point of view as to in fact
contemplate the ultimate abandonment of the principle of no
forced repatriation. The prisoner of war commission cont emplated
under the resolution would presumably have to hold indefinitely
prisoners resisting repatriation and subject them to Communist
haranguing until they give up and decide to go home. That is,
the resolution provides for no disposition of the prisoners other
than being held indefinitely under the control of the commission
or returning to Communist control.
The
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