§ 51. Sir I. Fraserasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will make a statement on the progress of the Korean peace negotiations.
§ Mr. EdenSince my last statement on 26th October, the delegates have agreed upon the agenda for their own meetings. On 17th November, the Communists made certain proposals that the conference should meet at Panmunjom and that five neutral nations should attend.
Mr. Dean has replied that the United States were prepared to recommend to other Governments on the United Nations side that the conference itself should consider the question of additional participants after a satisfactory agreement on Korea had been reached and before other questions had been discussed. He added, however, that if after a reasonable period of discussion on Korea developments at the conference made it appear desirable to introduce additional participants, the United States would recommend to other Governments concerned that this be done.