By unanimous consensus, without a vote, the General Assembly extended today the mandate of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees by one year, to June 30, 1966, and authorized the agency aiding the Arab refugees to operate on a budget like the one granted for this year, amounting roughly to $36,000,000.
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