A UN spokesman said today that the Arab states have agreed to June 4 as the date for opening the scheduled Security Council debate on the Middle East. The spokesman said that Secretary General Kurt Waldheim was informed of Arab acceptance of the date by the Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed el-Zayyat whom he met last week at the 10th anniversary celebration of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in Addis Ababa.
Dr. Waldheim, who returned from Addis Ababa Sunday, also met there with President Anwar Sadat of Egypt. According to the UN spokesman they discussed the upcoming Security Council debate, Waldheim’s Middle East report released last week and the Middle East situation generally.
June 4 was tentatively set as the date for the debate some time ago. Yaacov Malik of the Soviet Union will assume the presidency of the Security Council on June 1. Some sources here speculated that the rotation might bring about a change of date.
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