Secretary General Kurt Waldheim met with President Nixon in Paris over the weekend and the main topic of their discussion was the Middle East, a United Nations spokesman reported today. According to the spokesman, Nixon said he was pleased to note the constructive role the UN was playing in the Middle East. (According to reports from Paris, the Middle East was also the main topic discussed when Nixon met there yesterday with the Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny. Nixon and Podgorny were among those who attended funeral services for the late French President Georges Pompidou.)
Meanwhile, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who arrived at the UN today for a special session of the General Assembly on world economic problems, remarked, “The solution to problems before the session is possible only on the basis of respect for the principles of sovereignty and independence of states, big and small.”
The Security Council was scheduled to meet here this afternoon to discuss an extension of the mandate of the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) which expires this month. Waldheim will host a dinner tonight for the Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy who is here for the General Assembly session.
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