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United Nations Operations in the Congo - Katanga - (Tshombe) - Cables UN Secretariat Item Scan - Barcode - Record Title Page 26 Date 02/06/2006 Time 12:05:34 PM S-0875-0003-07-00001 Expanded Number S-0875-0003-07-00001 items-in-Peace-keeping operations - United Nations Operations in the Congo - Katanga - (Tshombe) - cables Date Created 16/02H962 Record Type Archival Item Container s-0875-0003: Peace-Keeping Operations Files of the Secretary-General: U Thant: United Nations Operations in the Congo Print Name of Person Submit Image Signature of Person Submit CY 200 SSS LEO US i<5 FEB1 6 19S2 ETATPRIORITE " ' r> ,-' TO \ Or- UNATIONS j INITIALS SEGGEN FROM GARDINER 1, REFERENCE WUR i257 CONCERNING BRITISH K1ERGENARY WRENAGRE, DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO NOTE FROM UK PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE TO SECGEN BATEB 26 JANUARY TRANSMITTED LEO BY CABLE S2S WHICH SA?S QUOTE + ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO THE UNITED KINGDOM GVERNMENT, WRENACRE » p g-« WAS KILLED IN SEPTEMBET IN THE COURSE OF THE FIGHTING IN KATANGA -f- UNQUOTE 2, PROPOSE THAT FATHER OF VREKACRE BE TOLD THAT OUR INFORMATION REGARDING DEATH OF HIS SON CAME FROM BRITISH GOVERNMENT WHICH SHOULD BE ASKED TO INSTRUCT CONSUL IN EVILLE TO PURSUE MATTER IN ORDER TO FURNISH a P 3/15 • MORE 'DETAILS , 3. 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KF ag&T\V Afi PPfiM = _____________________________ WEDNESDAY TWENTYONE FEBRUARY STOP UNDERSTAND THIS ARRANGEMENT &SREEB W PRINCIPLE IN GENEVA BETWEEN UK AND RED CROSS STOP PLEASE ABVISE SOONEST AFTEH CONSULTATION KEWYORK UNQUOTE STOP REQUEST YOU CQNFIBM TO OKfUC AND THIS HEADQUARTERS DETAILS OF REPORTED GENEVA ARRAN6EMENTS BET1EEN UN AND RES CROSS STOP ACTIOK ONUC CIW REQUEST YOU * .PS/12 * AREAKGE AKD COMFIRJ^ DETAILS OF REQUIRED AIR TRANSPORTATION : mim m AIRLIFT * ;*': " FIELBSERV + i ''] '] COL 577 13<Sf 1«7 4- ^ ? ffl I? it m mm ?m mnmm es eimm t» QB ao * UNITED NATIONS Distr. SECURITY GENERAL S/5053/Add.8 19 February 1962 COUNCIL ENGLISH ORIGINAL: ENGLISH/FRENCH REPORT OF THE OFFICER-IN-CHARGE OF TEE UNITED NATIONS OPERATION IN THE CONGO TO THE SECRETARY-GENERAL ON DEVELOPMENTS RELATING TO THE APPLICATION OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS OF 21 FEBRUARY AND 24 NOVEMBER 1961 I. Report on developments in Katanga: A. With reference to action taken by the provincial government and Assembly with respect to the Kitona declaration B. With reference to the problem of mercenaries (continued) A 1. As stated in the report of the Officer-in-Charge (S/5053/Add.l, para- 30 and Annex X), President Tshombe approached ONUC on 5 January 1962 with a view to obtaining the services of a United Nations juridical expert, and confirmed his request in an amended letter of 13 January. According to Mr. Tshombe's letter the United Nations legal expert was to examine the form and presentation of the conclusions drawn from the Assembly's discussions and their conformity to the prescribed procedure, so as to present a document clearly drawn up in accordance with legal rules; there was no question of this expert's being asked to express any opinion on matters of substance. These were said to fall "exclusively within our competence and within the scope of our future discussion with the Leopoldville Government". 2. The request having been submitted to the Central Government for consideration and approval, Prime Minister Adoula, by letter to the Officer-in-Charge dated 20 January, stated that he saw no objection in principle, on the understanding that the expert concerned would at no time be required to pass judgement on the legality of the Central Government's actions (S/5053/Add.2, Annex III). The Secretary-General accordingly assigned the Legal Counsel of the United Nations, Mr. C.A. Stavropoulos, to the task. 62-03332 /... 0", i, ./.xl, S/5053/Add.8 English Page 2 3- When Mr. Stavropoulos met President Tshombe in Elisabethville on 2 February, the latter explained that he wanted the Legal Counsel to give advice to a special Commission set up by the Assembly of Katanga to study the Kitona agreement. k. It should be noted that by decree of 2J December 19^1^ Mr. Tshombe had convened an extraordinary session of the Assembly for 3 January 1962, to examine "the agreement known as the Agreements of Kitona". The Assembly had appointed a "Commission for Foreign and Political Affairs", consisting of the President of the Assembly and fifteen of its members,, to study the matter and to report on it. This was the commission to which the President of the province wanted Mr. Stavropoulos to tender advice. Mr. Tshombe pointed out that the advice should cover matters of presentation and procedure and not of substance, the latter being a matter for the Assembly and the Government to consider. He further explained that the Assembly and the Commission had not been meeting lately in expectation of the legal expert's arrival. 5- Mr. Stavropoulos attended seven meetings of the Commission. At the first meeting, on 3 February, the President of the Assembly presented Mr. Stavropoulos with a number of documents for his consideration. These included a report of the Commission to the Assembly, already adopted by the Commission on 7 January 1962 by 13 votes in favour to 3 against. They also included a draft motion for adoption by the Assembly. At the same time, the President of the Assembly once again made clear to Mr. Stavropoulos that the Commission wanted him to advise on questions of procedure only. 6. Subsequently, Mr. Stavropoulos had several meetings with the Commission in the course of which he gave advice on the question of the quorum and on a list of changes which had occurred in the initial membership of the Assembly on account of incompatibility, resignations and death. He declined, however, to advise on questions which were outside his terms of reference. 7- The Commission suggested that Mr. Stavropoulos should assist it by reviewing with it the report it had adopted on 7 January 1962 with a view to advising on the legality of its content. The Commission expressed the wish that the report should be proper, both in form and in content. 8. Mr. Stavropoulos explained that his terms of reference did not provide for, and indeed excluded, such advice. He had studied the report and had found that S/5053/Add. English Page 3 its contents were contrary to the terms of the Loi Fondamentale of 19 Way relating to the -structure of the Congo, which, in the present case, was the only criterion for passing on legality. Mr. Stavropoulos noted that the report adopted by the Commission on 7 January provided for compliance with the Loi Fondamentale and with the authority of the Central Government only after a considerable number of stated conditions had been met.
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