Israel voted here this weekend with the vast majority of United Nations members to instruct a special committee to continue its efforts to work out guidelines for support of peace-keeping operations, and to establish a United Nations trust fund to aid the victims of apartheid and their families in South Africa.
Prior to the vote, taken by the General Assembly’s Special Political Committee, Ambassador Michael S. Comay, chairman of Israel’s delegation here, reminded the 117 member body that Israel had “intimate concern” with certain U. N. peace-keeping operations. He was referring in that context to the United Nations Emergency Force, which guards the Israeli-Egyptian borders on the Egyptian side of the Gaza Strip and at Sharm el-Sheikh, overlooking the Gulf of Akabah, where Israeli shipping now has freedom of movement to and from its port of Eilat.
A special commission named by Secretary-General U Thant has been investigating UNEF’s operations and budget, and is expected to report its findings to the Assembly, possibly this week.
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