Secretary General Kurt Waldheim met here today with Israel’s Acting Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Dov Schmorak, to discuss further efforts to advance the chances of peace in the Mideast. Waldheim also conferred today with a number of Arab ambassadors and discussed with them the situation in the Mideast.
Meanwhile, Arab representatives to the UN last night rejected a suggestion by Waldheim that the Security Council hold a meeting on the situation in Lebanon. Meeting behind closed doors, the Arabs agreed that efforts to resolve the 11-month crisis in Lebanon should be pursued by the 20-member Arab League and not opened for a Security Council debate at this time. There were indications that Third World and Communist bloc representatives here supported this view.
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