Sen. Jacob K. Javits, New York Republican, has been assigned the key role of “rapporteur” of NATO efforts to organize economic aid for the Middle East and other underdeveloped areas.
Chairman Theodore F. Green of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee designated Sen. Javits as “rapporteur” of American efforts through NATO to aid areas outside the NATO structure. Benefitting nations would include such countries as Israel and the Arab states. Sen. Javits is also serving , in effect, as chairman of a NATO parliamentary economic committee coordinating plans for the entire multi-national program envisaged.
The Senator will help develop American recommendations to other NATO members. Another function, in his broader NATO parliamentary committee role, will be policy delineation. He sees a possibility that groupings of NATO members may undertake separate programs in the Middle East and Africa.
The Senator believes this country should push forward at once on economic developmental cooperation with various European countries “notably Italy and Germany, ” that are concerned with Middle Eastern stability. He said the United States should not try to woo those Middle East states who do not want it.
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