retary-General continue his efforts. 201. As I understand it. the Council met this past Wednesday in an informal meeting and, as also re- ported in the press, on the basis of that background information decided to allow the Secretary-General an additional few days in which to pursue his peace- making efforts, efforts which. I repeat, we all com- mend and fully support, Indeed, we only wish he could be given a mandate to complete those efforts success- fully, with, of course, the co-operation of the parties concerned. That was on Wednesday of this week. 202. The Council, as everyone knows, had agreed to give the Secretary-General a few days more to continue his efforts. However. the rebuff to the Council came not from Argentina but from the othet side of the Atlantic, because on the following day to Prime Minister of the United Kingdom appeared before the House of Commons to say that negotia- tions were leading nowhere and had broken down. What caused that? The United Kingdom had made some proposals and issued an ultimatum to Argentina. That also was published. And if the version that I am stating here is inaccurate, may I be corrected. It was indicated that if Argentina failed to accept those pro- posals as put forward, the United Kingdom, which had been involved in a process of prolonging those talks in order to prevent specific agreement, was going, as indeed it subsequently did, to begin an escalation. an escalation which is taking place right now. That. of course, leaves the Council in the position of being slighted. I believe that, by its intransigence, the United Kingdom is snubbing the Council and all its members. As I stressed in the Council on 3 April [ihid.] after the adoption of resolution SO2 ( 1982). a 
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