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278. Telegram From the Department of State to the Mission to the United Nations

untries could play useful role in urging Sovs to settle arrearage problem. We would like your views on embarking on such corridor talking campaign with third countries in such way as to ensure its getting back to Sovs. Countries such as India, UAR , Nigeria, Brazil occur to us but you are in better position to judge. Our arguments would be: arrears must be settled if UN to go forward in orderly and businesslike manner; underbrush of old debts must be cleared away if we are to make progress on future peacekeeping formula in Working Group next spring; settlement of arrears is not US– USSR issue …