FINLAND ENLARGES MIDEAST PEACE-KEEPING FORCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-186-8-20-5
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: August 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: October 25, 1973
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/08/02: LOC-HAK-186-8-20-5
No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/08/02 LOC-HAK-186-8-20-5
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FINLAND ENLARGES MIDEAST PEACE-KEEPING FORCE
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L251.209 HELSINKI DOMESTIC SERVICE IN FINNIS14 1005 GMT 2 OCT 73 L
(SUMMARY) "FINLAND IS TO SEND 10 MORE MILITARY ..,BSERVERS
TO THE MIDDLE EAST. IF -a-HE U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL DECIDES
TO SEND PEACE-KEEPING FORCES, FINLAND CAN ALSO ACT, IF NECESSARY."
IN AN `:INTERVIEW WITH PAULA PORKKA, THE HEAD OF THE FOREIGN
MINISTRY'S U.N.:rOFFICE, MAJ: ESK;: NIEMINEN SAID T.,A. ONE OBSERVER
WAS ALREADY IN CYPRUS AND HAD BEEN ORDERED THIS MORNING ,O FLY
TO JERUSALEM. TWO MORE OBSERVERS HAVE ALSO RECEIVED THEIR ORDERS
AND WOULD LEAVE FINLAND FOR `JERUSALEM TOMORROW AT THE LATEST.
SOME MORE WOULD LEAVE PR -BABLY NEX: WEEK AND THE LAST OBSERVERS
IN ABOUT 3 WEEKS' TIME, WHEN MEDICAL PROBLEMS, SUCH AS VACCINATIONS,
HAD BEEN SETTLED.
25 OCT 1309Z HWM/JZ
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UN OBSERVERS ALO,VG A HE SYRIAN FRONTLINE. THE ivr ib nrAVT 1u
DISCUSS 'IMMEDIATELY WITH HE UN CHIEF OBSERVER THE ARRANGEMENTS
TNPRINCIPLE' TO THE PROPOSAL OF T,.E CHIEF UN OBSERVER TO STATION
CHIEF UN,.OBSERVER THAT ; HE IDF UNITS ON . HE SYRIAN FRONT ARE
THE UN OBSERVERS ,EADQUARTERS IN JERUSALEM HAS INFORMED THE
(TEXT) THE ?IDF GE %ERAL STAFF LIAISON OFFICER ATTACHED TO
M251106 JERUSALEM DOMESTIC SERVICE IN HEBREW 1000 GMT 25 OCT 73 M
7DF IMPLEMENTING CEASE-FIRE ON SYRIAN FRO..:
FOR STAB IONING SUCH OBSERVERS.