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FUND FOR DRUG ABUSE CONTROL
15 Towards the end of the first week a day was given to discussion of the work of the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control. This proved to be a friendly and, apart from interventions by France and the United Kingdom, disappointingly uncritical examination of what the Fuod administrators were doing. The United Kingdom stressed the need in the future for the Fund to report to the Commission not only what money had been spent but how well it had been spent. France stressed the need for co-ordination of work. A joint French and United Kingdon draft Resolution to ECOSOC was agreed which called for the Secretary General to have regard to the need to avoid overlapping initiatives, etc. A number of countries (Japan, Spain and Argentina) announced contributions to the Fund. The United Kingdom indicated that in the light of the debate upon this agenda item favourable consideration would be given to further contributing in the future. The United Kingdon was therefore uncommitted either as to regular contribution or as to amount. The intervention of the United States in this debate was in a singularly low key and it was only as a result of further developments in the last week that the reason emerged why the major contributor to the Fund made no criticism of its present administration (see paragraph 17).
STATEMENT OF SECRETARY-GENERAL
16 On the last Monday morning after the meeting of the Steering Committee at which he made no mention of the matter, the Chairman announced that the European Director- General, Mr Winspeare-Guicciardi, had asked him if he might make a statement to the Commission and that he, the Chairman, had accepted this request and agreed that the statement should be made at five o'clock that evening (half an hour before the close of business). The United Kingdom delegate had been informed over the previous week- end by a member of the United Nations Division that the statement concerned the administration of the Fund and the Secretary General's plans for its reorganisation; the Division had been told that Ambassador Schurman had been sacked. The Director General duly appeared and began to read out a statement (see Annex) which was at the same time circulated to the Commission. This, as foreshadowed, contained a plan of reorganisation for the administration of the Fund and also of the Division.
It was impossible to assimilate the implications of the statement as it was read out, but it was clearly a statement of importance. When, at 5.25 pm, the Director General finished, the Chairman indicated that as this was not an agenda item there could be no discussion of it and the Director General with the Chairman's thanks started to leave. At this point the French delegation asked for the floor and on the pretext of thanking the Director General proceeded to attack him bitterly for what he had said.
There was clearly much feeling in the Commission and the United Kingdom delegation therefore proposed that the Chairman might consider inviting the Steering Committee to see if time could be given for a discussion of the statement. The Chairman conceded this with ill grace, but it was clear from the reactions of the Commission afterwards and of the Steering Committee that it was as well that the proposal had been made and accepted.
17 Time was given for a discussion of the statement on the final Thursday afternoon. The list of speakers was limited and speaking time was confined to five minutes. A number of countries, including the United Kingdom, reserved their position and their right to raise the question in ECOSOC after it had been possible to study, against the background of the history of the establishment of the Fund, the full implications of the new reorganisation. Most other nations were critical of what had been proposed. Only the United States was in any way uncritical; by their attitude throughout they made it clear that they had known perfectly well what was coming, and, according to reliable sources, they had engineered the whole thing. Whatever
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