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I therefore invite my colleagues to agree that:-

(i) His Majesty's Government should continue to lay main emphasis on efforts to reach a negotiated settlement with China.

(ii) In the course of the study being made by the Additional Measures Committee, the United Kingdom Representa- tive should be authorised to express His Majesty's Government's opposition to the imposition of any political sanctions against China and should make it clear that the only economic measure which his Government_could support in the event of the Good Offices Committee failing would be a selective embargo on strategic materials.

(iii) His Majesty's Government should attempt to ensure that the Additional Measures Committee should make no report to the General Assembly until the Good Offices Committee fails and that the report itself should not go beyond recommending a selective embargo, together with any possible measures specifically and immediately related to the situation in Korea e.g. additional assistance for United Nations forces fighting in Korea).

(iv) The Governments of the Commonwealth, the United States and of France should be informed of these conclusions.

Foreign Office, S. W. 1,

3RD APRIL, 1951.

H. M.

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