The U.N. Economic and Social Council, by a 12-4 vote, today approved a resolution adopted last week by its special committee calling on the U.N. Secretary-General to transmit to all U.N. member-states the draft of an international convention under which missing Nazi and war victims would be declared legally dead.
The action paves the way for the U.N. General Assembly, at its next session in September, to consider the convention, which would enable surviving relatives to claim the property of the missing persons and would also make it legal for many to remarry. Previously, spokesmen for the Israeli Government and the World Jewish Congress appeared before the Economic and Social Council to urge approval of the resolution.
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