Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg, permanent representative of the United States in the United Nations, cancelled a scheduled appearance before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee on Viet Nam in order to participate in further consultations on the Middle East here today.
The ten non-permanent members of the Security Council met today in an attempt to work out a draft resolution covering the wider aspects of the Middle East problem and authorizing the appointment of a special representative of the Secretary-General to be dispatched to the Middle East.
It is expected that the Security Council will meet again early next week to take up such a draft resolution. Several members have been pressing for a meeting before the end of October while Senjin Tsuruoka of Japan still serves as president of the Council. As of November 1, the president will be Ambassador M.L. Keita of Mali, who has consistently sided with the Arabs.
Secretary-General Thant was consulting with his aides today and with Lt. Gen. Odd Bull, head of the U.N. cease-fire observers in the Middle East, on proposed increases in the U.N. force of observers in the Suez area and the deployment of patrol craft and helicopters to provide them with a greater range of mobility on land, sea and air.
Several delegations, among them the Israeli, took note of the fact that Soviet representative Nikolai T. Fedorenko last night used the term “political solution” for the second time while discussing the Middle East.
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