The General Assembly was warned here today by the head of relief activities for Arab refugees that, unless the member states of the United Nations are willing to come through with enough funds to care for the refugees adequately in 1958, the “vulnerable local economies of the Arab states are likely to be seriously affected.
Henry R. Labouisse, director of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, voiced this warning before the Assembly’s special political committee as the group opened its annual debate of the Arab refugee problem. Already certain programs for rehabilitation of refugees have been curtailed and others have been eliminated altogether because of lack of funds, Mr. Labouisse said. In effect, he told the Assembly, that it is up to the UN to decide what to do–but the situation is extremely grave.
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