United Nations works relief for Arab refugees is progressing slowly and an additional $50,000,000 is needed for the United Nations Works Agency in Palestine for the coming fiscal year, the Agency’s director, Howard Kennedy, informed the General Assembly today in a 55-page report on the works program.
Only about 17,500 of the more than 750,000 Arab refugees are working on works projects to date, the report reveals. In asking for an added $50,000,000, Mr. Kennedy and the Agency’s four-nation advisory commission–made up of France, Turkey, Great Britain and the United States–called for an immediate sum of $5,000,000 to tide the Agency over the period until July 1951, when the new fiscal year begins. The report suggests that $30,000,000 requested be earmarked for a “re-integration fund” and the rest be used for direct relief.
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