UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 3—No formal request for a Security Council meeting on the Indian‐Pakistani conflict was forthcoming here today, although the 10 elected, non-permanent members of the Council met privately to discuss the crisis.

Officials at the United Nations Secretariat asserted privately late in the day that the Pakistani representative, Agha Shahi, was quietly trying to get a formal meeting called for tomorrow morning.

A Secretariat spokesman said at a news conference here this afternoon that the Council's President, Ismael Taylor‐Kamara of Sierra Leone, had been consulting with other Council members “at approximately, half‐hour intervals” through the, afternoon.

The chief delegates of the United States, France and Italy gathered at nightfall at the office of the Council President.

The United States representative, George Bush, told reporters at the door, “We don't have any instructions to ask for a meeting.” The French delegate, Jacques Kosciusko‐Morizet, indicated that France also was not pressing the issue.

Earlier, in Washington, the United States announced that it had canceled remaining export licenses for military and other sensitive equipment for India. [Page 10.]

The United Nations spokesman said at the press conference that the Council President was “hearing the views of members on the general situation regarding India and Pakistan.” The spokesman denied earlier reports that a formal request for a meeting had been made to the President.

Mr. Shahi made no immediate comment, but he told a reporter earlier in the day that it was “entirely possible” that Pakistan would ask the Council to take up the crisis, on the subcontinent.

Pro‐Pakistani diplomats said the private meeting of the 10 representatives had discussed a Pakistani request that the United Nations deploy observers just inside East Pakistan's borders. What if anything was decided was not made public.

There has been reluctance among many delegates here to have the Indian Pakistani problem discussed formally in the Council. This in part reflected fears that a debate and an eventual resolution might exacerbate and complicate the situation. Eastern European diplomats have said that Moscow was opposed to the idea, and the spokesman for the United States delegation said Washington had assumed a “waiting position” on the issue.

Pro‐Indian diplomats said that the Council's president had called the informal meeting, which was held around a long table in a room adjoining the Security Council chamber.

What occurred was not immediately disclosed, but European diplomats said that Mr. Taylor‐Kamara was acting on the basis of a written message from Secretary General Thant.

Mr. Thant sent the message to the outgoing Council President, Eugeniusz Kulaga of Poland; earlier this week, together with a Pakistani request that United Nations observers be sent to East Pakistan.

Pakistan sent the request to Mr. Thant, but he chose to take no action on it himself because, a spokesman later explained, he wished “to have action by a major organ” of the United Nations before observers were sent.

What Mr. Thant said in his message to the Council President has not been made public, but predictions that the body would take up the Indian‐Pakistani crisis have grown here as the situation has deteriorated.

After taking the initiative with this morning's meeting, Mr. Taylor‐Kamara was scheduled to meet later with Mr. Bush, and there were reports he was also conferring with the representatives of the Council's four other permanent members.

Qualified sources said that India had as yet made no requests of the United Nations concerning the fighting, but they did not foreclose the possibility.

The Indian Government's stated view in the past has been that Pakistan was trying to “internationalize” the issue. The Indian Premier. Mrs. Indira Gandhi, said in a speech to the Indian Parliament on Tuesday that efforts to bring the crisis before the Council were meant “to confuse the realities of the situation’