The Israel Government today approved the guidelines and composition of the Israel delegation to the forthcoming session of the United Nations General Assembly, which opens on September 21.
While Foreign Minister Golda Meir will head the delegation during brief periods, the permanent head of the delegation will be Israel’s chief U.N. delegate, Ambassador Michael Comay. He will be assisted by Gideon Raphael, Israel’s Ambassador to Switzerland Shabtai Rosenne, legal adviser of the Foreign Ministry; Yitzhak Ben-Aharon, former Minister of Communications; Yoel Barromi, deputy permanent representative to the United Nations; five alternate delegates; David Hacohen of Mapai, and Ishar Harari of the Liberal Party, members of the Knesset (Parliament); and 10 advisers.
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