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330/6–3050: Telegram

The Ambassador in Egypt (Caffery) to the Secretary of State

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Cairo, June 30, 1950—1 p. m.
[Received June 30—12: 01 p. m.]

702. The Council of Ministers decided late last night to instruct Egyptian representative at Lake Success to inform SC that Egypt would continue to abstain on the recently voted Korean resolution, for two reasons:

(1)
The Korean episode is another manifestation of enmity between two blocs which endangers peace of the world;
(2)
Fawzi Bey is to point out in polite language that in the face of Israel aggression; UN took no effective action, and that when Egypt brought its dispute with Great Britain before SC in 1947,1 nothing was done about it either.

The Egyptian authorities contend that in the face of the present extremely hostile attitude of the Arab States to the US it would be very difficult for any Egyptian Government to support US attitude in the UN.

Caffery
  1. For related documentation, see Foreign Relations, 1947, vol. v, pp. 761 ff.↩