UN SECURITY COUNCIL STATEMENT TILTS TOWARD DUSHANBE.

Russia and China combined to produce a UN. Security Council statement, made public yesterday, accusing the Tajik opposition of deliberately violating the cease-fire in the recent operation in which it captured Tavildara. The statement also calls for an unconditional cease-fire for the duration of the inter-Tajik talks, thus endorsing Dushanbe’s position on that issue. Russia’s UN ambassador Sergey Lavrov said that the U.S. and Germany had made some attempts to dilute the statement’s wording. (Itar-Tass, Xinhua, May 22)

Kozyrev Replaced.