Two items affecting Israel-Arab relations are on the provisional agenda of the next session of the General Assembly, scheduled to open September 17. The agenda was made public here today.
One of the items concerns the maintenance of the United Nations Emergency Force, which guards the Gaza Strip border and the freedom of Israeli shipping on the Gulf of Akaba. The other concerns a review of the activities of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.
In addition, there are several items on the agenda of general interest to Jews the world over. Most of these are in the field of human rights. They include resolutions forwarded to the Assembly by the recent session of the Economic and Social Council, held at Geneva. One of the drafts calls for the elimination of all racial discrimination, another proposes elimination of all religious discrimination.
A third ECOSOC report, dealing with the right of every person to leave his own country and return thereto, is also among the documents to be placed be fore the Assembly. The latter report touches upon the situation of the Jews in the Soviet Union, who are forbidden to emigrate. However, the report does not mention the USSR specifically.
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