The executive director of the American Jewish Committee was elected chairman of U.N. Watch, a Geneva-based organization that monitors the performance of U.N. bodies headquartered there. David Harris plans to take a sabbatical year from heading the AJCommittee and will assume the U.N. Watch post in August. U.N. Watch was founded in 1993 under the chairmanship of the late Ambassador Morris Abram.
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