Secretary-General U Thant of the United Nations expressed the belief that all parties in the Middle East want Dr. Gunnar V. Jarring, the UN’s special envoy for the area, to continue his efforts to find a settlement of the Arab-Israel dispute. The UN official declined to comment on the reasons for what a correspondent called the “stalemate” in Dr. Jarring’s negotiations and said the envoy, who arrived here Monday for consultations, will make his own report and assessment “at the proper time.”
Mr. Thant met the UN correspondents on the eve of the opening of the 23rd General Assembly. The Palestine question was formally transferred from the agenda of the 22nd assembly – its only “unfinished business” – and given a high priority on the new sessions’ agenda. A warning that the Middle East was a danger spot that could “generate fresh dangers for mankind” was given the Assembly’s opening session by Foreign Minister Corneliu Manescu of Rumania, who was president of the previous session.
The United States mission to the UN announced that Louis Stulberg, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, had been appointed a member of the mission. The committee on non-governmental organizations, a permanent committee of the Economic and Social Council, voted today to have the Agudas Israel World Organization and the Consultative Council of Jewish Organizations retain their consultative status.
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