The chairmen of the six U.N. General Assembly committees were asked today by Herbert V. Evatt, president of the Assembly, to speed up the work on the proposed Declaration of Human Rights and genocide so that both projects might be completed at this session.
At the Economic and Social Council session today, the Norwegian delegate proposed the formation of an economic commission for the Middle East. The motion was shelved after a brief discussion period.
Poland, in the Arab refugee sub-committee of the Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee, sponsored a preamble to the proposed resolution dealing with the Palestine Arab refuges problem which states that the refugee situation is a result of the existing situation in Palestine. The Polish amendment was opposed by Britain and Egypt but was supported by the Indian delegate, who stressed that the sub-committee could not ignore the problem of resettling the Arab refugees following the termination of the temporary emergency relief period.
The Administrative and Budgetary Committee has tentatively approved an advance of $5,000,000 from the Secretary-General’s working capital fund to be used for the relief of Arab refugees. A Soviet proposal limiting the sum to a maximum of $3,000,000 was overwhelmingly defeated.
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