Cablegram 190 WASHINGTON, 28 February 1949, 8.23 p.m.
IMPORTANT RESTRICTED
INDONESIA
Your 117 [1] to Australian Delegation to United Nations, New York.
During a Press Conference, 26th February, Van Kleffens made statement, the text of which is contained in our immediately preceding telegram. [2]
It appears Van Kleffens had in mind that the basis for round-table conference would not be the Security Council Resolution [3] nor the whole Cochran Plan [4], but selected points on which tentative agreement was reached, e.g. Hatta’s letter to Cochran of 13th December [5], in the conversations between Hatta and Stikker.
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1 Document 251.
2 Document 258.
3 Document 168.
4 See Document 237 and 238 in Volume XIII.
5 The text of Hatta’s letter to Cochran dated 13 December 1948 is given in United Nations, Security Council Official Records, Third Year, Supplement for December, pp.215-18.
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[AA : A1838, 403/3/1/1, xxi]