No.GM-0609

DATE. 291730

TO. FOREIGN MINISTER
REUR CABLE MG-0610.
I TALKED WITH ICRC OFFICIAL JUNE TWENTY NINE AND OBTAINED FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
ONE : ICRC SHOULD MAKE THOROUGH STUDY ABOUT THE POSSIBIE NUMBER OF KOREANS WHO MIGHT REGISTER AT JRC WINDOWS PD THEY CANNOT THEREFORE PREDICT AT THIS TIME HOW MANY KOREANS ACTUALLY WOULD WISH TO GO TO NOPAK PD
TWO : SINCE SOCALLED CALCUTTA AGREEMENT IS TO EXPIRE IN NOVEMBER 1960 CMA BOTH SITES HAVE TO DECIDE WHETHER THEY SHOULD RENEW THE SOCALLED AGREEMENT THREE MONTHS PRIOR TO ITS EXPIRATION PD ACCORDING TO ICRC EXPLANATION CMA JAPAN MIGHT SEEK ICRC UNDERSTANDING BEFORE THEY RENEW THE SOCALLED AGREEMENT BUT SO FAR JAPAN HAS NOT APPROACHED ICRC ON THIS MATTER PD HOWEVER CMA IT IS EXPECTED THAT JAPAN WOULD APPROACH ICRC SHORTLY IN AN ATTEMPT TO OBTAIN ICRC UNDERSTANDING PD
THREE : ICRC WOULD MAKE ANOTHER DECISION SOMETIMES IN JULY WHETHER THEY SHOULD CONTINUE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE DEPORTATION PROGRAMS PD THEY CONFIDENTIALLY SAY THAT MR DURANT S OBSERVATION IN TOKYO TOGETHER WITH THE RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF THE ISSUE WILL BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION IN THIS REGARD PD

MINISTER KIM/ GENEVA.

JULY 1ST 0900 1960.