Special Commitee on Peacekeeping Operations Meets

The Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations met this afternoon for its first meeting and adopted the agenda.
The Chairman of the Committee made a statement concerning the organization of the work of the Committee. Statements were made by the representatives of the USSR, Canada, Yugoslavia, the Netherlands, France, El Salvador, Poland, United States, Romania, Austria, United Kingdom, Mauritania, Czechoslovakia, Australia, Pakistan, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Afghanistan and India. The representative for the USSR spoke in exercise of the right of reply.
At the table, from left: Secretary General U Thant; Ambassador Alex Quaison-Sackey (Ghana), Chairman of the Committee, who is the President of the General Assembly; and Mr. M.A. Vellodi, Director and Deputy to the Under- Secretary of the Department of Political and Security Council Affairs. Behind them are, from left: Mr. B. R. Turner, United Nations Controller; Mr. O Schachter, Director of General Legal Division, Office of Legal Affairs; and Mr. C.V. Narasimhan, Under-Secretary for General Assembly Affairs and Chef de Cabinet.