Israeli Ambassador Chaim Herzog urged the General Assembly today to reflect “events which may be of great and historic importance” which “are in the offing in the Middle East.” The envoy, who was addressing the Assembly which was discussing the policies of apartheid of the South African government, declared that in view of President Anwar Sadat’s visit to Israel “it seems to me appropriate that this event should be reflected in this Assembly both in plenary and in the committees, in that the acrimonious and counter-productive debate on the Middle East, which seems to be at the center of most of the deliberations, be suspended.”
In a development related to Sadat’s visit, an Israeli spokesman said that Herzog had asked the UN’s Chief of Protocol, Pedro de Churruca, for Egyptian flags of various sizes and the music of the Egyptian anthem. The spokesman reported that by late this afternoon the Israel Mission to the UN had received the music notes of the anthem from the UN library, that a tape of the anthem was made available by the Egyptian Consulate in New York and that Egyptian flags had been purchased at the UN. By this evening, the spokesman said, A. Amorati, a member of Israel’s UN delegation, was on his way back to Jerusalem with all the material.
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