Israel protested here today against a previous decision by the United Nations to eliminate a session of the Human Rights Commission for 1964. The Economic and Social Council, parent body of the commission, decided at the last ECOSOC meeting in Geneva in June to eliminate the 1964 Human Rights Commission meeting for budgetary reasons.
Discussing the overall UN budget estimates for 1964 in the General Assembly’s budgetary and administrative committee today, Theodor Meron, Israel’s representative, on that 111-member group, told the committee that the budget of the UN must not be used as a “straitjacket” impeding essential activities by restricting too many meetings to a biennial, instead of yearly, pattern.
“In particular, “he said, “we have reservations concerning the extension of the biennial pattern of meetings to the Commission on Human Rights. In our view, the tremendous tasks of the Organization in the field of human rights necessitates annual meetings of the Commission on Human Rights. My delegation views with concern the recent decision of the ECOSOC not to convene a meeting of the Human Rights Commission in 1964.”
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