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Mr.van Kleffens explained orally: (1) there are no difficulties in Indonesia, nor have there been any difficulties, with two-thirds of the population. Nevertheless, the Security Council would now extend its intervention, should the United States draft-resolution be adopted, to these two- thirds of the population with whom, so far from there being any dispute, the Netherlands work har- moniously together towards the establishment of the United States of Indonesia. This is clearly unwar- ranted; (2) in the republic ( where the remaining one-third of the population lives ), the difficulties which arose