The significant part played in the economy of Libya of Jewish and other minority groups and the necessity for providing these groups ##th adequate constitutional safeguards before the United Nations turns the country ##r to the Libyan population for self-government 16 months hence are stressed in a report by U.N. High Commissioner for Libya Adrian Pelt to the United Nations General Assembly.
The report, made public today by the United Nations Information Center here, ##commends direct negotiations between repressentatives of the Jewish, Italian, Malt##e and Greek minorities and representatives of the future Libyan National Assembly ## order to discuss specific clauses to protect the rights of these minorities in the future Libyan constitution.Elsewhere in the report, which deals with the historical development of the ##rmer Italian colony, Commissioner Pelt says that the settlement of the future status ## the minorities is “a particularly delicate matter in view of their economic and financial interests and the important place they accordingly occupy in the general economy of the country.”
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