09-151.pdf

The UNC/MAC representative maintained the view expressed
on May 31 since the North did not accept the recommendation of the
NNSC for the withdrawal of inspection teams without raising
[non-exemplified] unacceptable conditions. The MAC failed to reach
a joint attitude with the NNSC; the June 5 letter was not observed.
Consequently, after General Gard had told the NNSC members in a
letter on June 8 that the suspension of any of its activities would
become effective on June 9 and that the inspection teams in Pusan,
Kunsan and Inch’ôn were to be simultaneously withdrawn to the
DMZ, controls of military enforcements ended, making both sides free
to rearm without any interference.
At an extraordinary NNSC meeting held between midnight and
1 a.m. on June 9, the Commission agreed to withdraw all inspection
teams in the North from Sinûiju, Manp’o and Sinanju and in the South
from Inch’ôn, Pusan and Kunsan. Thanks to the single telephone line
available in the Swiss camp, the order was immediately forwarded.
The withdrawal of the inspection teams to Panmunjom began with the
Czech and Polish teams stationed in Pusan the same day the decision
was made. Withdrawals from the North took place on June 10-11. The
teams arrived in Panmunjom on June 12. The sub-teams delivered to
the Executive Secretary reports on the withdrawal. Documents that
had belonged to the teams were simultaneously handed over. At the
Secretaries’ Meeting, the reports and documents were examined by the
four Secretaries.
In spite of the withdrawal, at the 260th NNSC Plenary Meeting
held on June 14 the Czech member stressed that the Commission
would continue to safeguard peace and that it had played a very important
role in this respect since 1953 (cf. pp. 29-30, 68). On June 9,
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