The United National Food and Agriculture Organization would cooperate in any plans that might develop for use of the Jordan River Valley waters on a regional basis, but s far as the FAO is concerned, at present Israel is not in the Middle East but in Europe. This statement was made here today by Dr. Phillip Carson, director general of the FAO.
Dr. Cardon reported today about his recent trip trough the Middle East to visit FAO regional offices, Among the offices he visited were those his agency has in Egypt. Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. Asked why he did not at the same time visit Israel, he said, “Id didn’t have the time. Besides Israel’s place in the FAO is with the European region, and I was visiting the Middle East countries.”
Asked the reason for FAO’s “geographical revision” by placing Israel in Europe, Dr. Cardon said: “I really don’t know why.” However, he declared that Israel.”
Israel has a lower birth rate than Egypt, but also has a much lower death rate, according to the latest epidemiological and vital statistics report of the World Health Organization, made public here today. Comparable figures between Israel and its neighboring state, Egypt, for the year 1952, show that, in Israel, there were 24,7 births per thousand population, while that Egyptian ratio was 26.9. For the same year, Israel’s mortality ratio was 6.8 per thousand population, while Egypt’s mortality rate was 26.9
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