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Senator Petr. Thank you. I have always been struck by the fact 
that, in spite of all our brave hopes in San Francisco, where several 
of us were, for the creation of a military staff committee and some 
kind of U.N. force, we never really got it going. It has occurred to 
me through the years, that perhaps the best way to do this would be 
through some kind of international seaguard. For there is already 
acceptance of the fact that we have international supervision of 
pelagic sealing, the fisheries, weather patrol, and points of this sort. 
I was wondering if you had any views, Mr. Sisco, as to the develop- 
ment of an international seaguard which would be part and parcel 
of any ocean space treaty to provide the enforcement means, and 
from this it Boi lead into the concepts that we discussed in articles 
49, 48, and 44, I think it was, of the U.N. charter a good many years 
ago. 
U.S. EFFORTS TO STRENGTHEN U.N. PEACEKEEPING CAPACITY 
Mr. Stsco. Senator, as you know, the United States has really 
been in the forefront of trying to strengthen the peacekeeping capacity 
of the United Nations. 
I would say that we have been absolutely outstanding in this regard. 
The thing that we have been able to achieve has been a very modest 
success in the first 20 years, not forces that are used pursuant to 
chapter 7 of the charter and enforcement action per se, but rather 
peacekeeping forces, that have been largely put together on an ad hoc 
basis. They have operated on the soil of one country or another, based 
on the consent of that particular country. 
As you say, in the first 20 years we ‘have not been able to establish 
forces in the enforcement sense, as originally envisaged in the Charter 
of the United Nations. 
I think, myself, that our efforts have to continue. My hope has al- 
ways been that the modest successes that we have achieved with respect 
to peacekeeping forces will continue to move us toward a stronger 
peacekeeping system within the framework of the U.N. But there are 
many difficulties of which I know the Senator is fully aware: politi- 
cal, financial, and otherwise. Insofar as the idea of a sea guard, speci- 
fically, and particularly a sea guard that would be used in the enforce- 
ment sense, as you have indicated, it seems to me that one of the pre- 
conditions would be to know a little more clearly the kind of legal 
regime that we are talking about in the first instance. 
But I think this is a useful idea that we must keep under review, 
because I have always felt, and I think it can be demonstrated in the 
history of the United Nations, that the national interest of the United 
States has certainly been served by whatever peacekeeping actions the 
organization has been able to take. 
I can foresee, Senator Pell, a future need for land forces, and it is 
altogether possible that we need something on the seas as well. I can 
recall, myself, during the Suez crisis when we were talking in terms 
of a UN, patr ol in and along the Suez Canal itself, so that I ‘think this 
is an 1dea that is worth looking at on a continuing basis. 
