HC Deb 18 July 1960 vol 627 cc2-3W
50. Mr. Grimond

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what Her Majesty's Government's present proposals are for a permanent United Nations Force; when they were last put to the United Nations; and what current action is being taken on them within the organisation.

Mr. Selwyn Lloyd

In my speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations on 17th September I put forward certain proposals towards this objective. That speech is set out verbatim in Command Paper 992 of April, 1960. In the United Nations the Secretary-General has been receiving replies to inquiries he made of some twenty Governments as to their attitude to his memorandum recommending a United Nations standby force.

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