Against stiff Arab opposition, the United Nations Trade and Development Conference, a 122-member body conducting a three-month-long session here, today elected an Israeli as vice-chairman of one of its main standing committee; The choice went to Ambassador Moshe Bartur, Israel’s permanent representative to the UN’s “Geneva headquarters, who acts as chairman of Israel’s sizable delegation to the conference.
Mr. Bartur was nominated by Burma, and his name was seconded by Congo (Brazzaville). The Arab delegations here, backed by non-Arab, Moslem states, were defeated earlier when they tried to keep Israel out of the 62-nation Afro-Asian bloc; Mr. Bartur will serve as a top officer of a committee to discuss future institutions to be sat up by the entire conference.
David Horowitz, Governor of the Bank of Israel, addressed the conference today, reporting on Israel’s plans for financing the economic development of emerging nations. These plans were submitted by Israel recently to the meeting of the board of the World Bank.
The problem of development, he said, would lend itself to solution if the world could free itself from prejudice and obsolete dogmas. In time of war, he noted, the nations of the world devoted 40 per cent of their gross national product to war effort. He told the conference that now the world could easily meet the challenge of the emerging nations by devoting merely two per cent to international development.
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