The question of Palestine, one of the most durable and aggravating agenda items of the United Nations General Assembly, will play a less prominent role and create less stir at the forthcoming Assembly session in Paris beginning November 6 than at any time since the U.N.’s founding, it was predicted here today.
Palestine appears on the provisional agenda for the coming session in two aspects. One is the report of the U.N.’s Palestine Conciliation Commission. The other is the problem of assistance to Palestine Refugees which will be reported on by the U.N. Relief and Work Agency for Palestine refugees, set up by the Assembly in 1949. It is unlikely that the P.C.C. will have much to report from its current meetings in Paris, which means that it will have little in the way of constructive accomplishment to report to the Assembly at all.
“Considerable progress” in the solution of the world refugee problem, but virtually no progress in bringing a stable peace to the Middle East is noted in the annual report of Secretary General Trygve Lie to the United Nations General Assembly, which was released here.
The report reviews all activities of the world organization in the period for July 1, 1950, to June 30, 1951. Nine double-column pages are devoted to “The Question of Palestine,” which leads off the 207-page document. In this section the Secretary General reviews the handling of the long series of complaints made to the Security Council by the Arab states against Israel and Israel counter-complaints and the Council decisions on them.
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