Assembly to Discuss Future of U.N. Troops on Egyptian-israel Frontier

The future of the United Nations Emer ency Force may come before the General Assembly next week, it was indicated here today. It was learned that Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold is preparing to file with the Assembly next week a full report on UNEF which will deal with the organization, deployment, operation and financing of the UN’s Middle East police force.

The Secretary General is so far advanced in the compilation of that report that he is ready to place it before his seven-nation Advisory Committee on UNEF which may meet as early as Saturday of this week. After that meeting, only technical processing will be needed before the report is given to the Assembly.

The matter of “deployment” of UNEF is expected to revive the issue of placing the UN force on Israel’s side of the Gaza Strip demarcation line. An important item in connection with UNEF’s future will be the matter of financing. So far the Secretary General has been authorized to spend no more than $16,500,000 for the operation of UNEF. Best estimates here are that the Force will cost the UN about $24, 000, 000 annually.

several other reports of interest to Israel are expected to be filed soon by the Secretary General. Some time next week, it is expected, Mr. Hammarskjold will receive, and forward to the Security Council, a report from Col. Byron V. Leary, Acting Chief of Staff of the UN Truce Supervision Organization. That report will deal with Syria’s complaint that Israel is violating the 1949 armistice agreement by proceeding with its drains work in the Hulch swamp.

Within ten days or two weeks, Mr. Hammarskjold will submit a report of UN activities in regard to clearance of the Suez Canal. While that report will in itself deal only with the work done by the United Nations in removing the obstructions in the channel, the discussion on the report is expected to range further into freedom of passage through the international waterway.