Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold expects to file a report “in a month or so” about continuance of United Nations aid to the Arab refugees in the Middle East, he made clear at a press conference here today.
The Secretary General is under instructions from the last session of the General Assembly to draft a report on the Arab refugee problem. The mandate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Arab refugees expires June 30, 1960, so that new plans for aiding the refugees must be considered by the Assembly session scheduled for opening next September.
Mr. Hammarskjold implied that there was not truth to reports that Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, United Nations Undersecretary for Political Affairs, was currently discussing the refugee problem with the Arab governments or with Israel. Dr. Bunche, who is visiting Jerusalem and Amman today, after having conferred with United Arab Republic officials in Cairo, “had nothing to do” with the refugee report, according to the UN Chief. He indicate” that he was working on that report personally, by saying “it will not be ghost-written.”
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