UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Aug. 9—Secretary of State William P. Rogers met today for four hours with Secretary General Thant to discuss ways the United States and the United Nations could cooperate in aiding the millions of East Pakistanis left destitute by cyclone and war.

Both sides in the talks stressed in later statements that they felt that humanitarian efforts must take priority over politics. Mr. Thant has warned the member states that he also sees a grave threat to peace in the tensions along the Pakistani‐Indian frontier.

Mr. Rogers presented Mr. Thant with a check for $1‐ million, which a United States spokesman described as “the first million.” The spokesman said another million would follow and that both contributions were to be used to finance United Nations efforts to aid the destitute and hungry in East Pakistan. The check was reported to he the first cash contribution for such work in East Pakistan as distinct from work in India for Pakistanis who had fled there.

A brief report on negotiations in the Middle East was given by Joseph J. Sisco, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, who has just returned home from conferences with the Israeli Government.

The State Department's spokesman, Robert J. McCloskey, insisted that the report from Mr. Sisco, which had been expected with keen interest here, was limited to “five to seven minutes at the end of this morning's session.” He would not discuss the substance of the report.

U. N. Telling Its Role

A reliable source said data on the role the United Nations would play in East Pakistan would be released in the next day or two.

Besides Mr. Rogers and Mr. Sisco, the relief conference included Samuel De Palma, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs; George Bush, the chief United States delegate; Maurice J. Williams, deputy administrator of the Agency for International Development, and Francis L. Kellogg, a special assistant to Mr. Rogers for refugee and migration affairs.

From Mr. Thant's staff there were Roberto Guyer, Under Secretary General for Special Political Affairs; Ismat Kittani, Assistant Secretary General for Inter ‐ agency Affairs, and Charles Mace, the deputy of the high commissioner for refugees.