The United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, which has the jurisdiction over the implementation of the armistice agreements between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, was voted today a 1966 budget totaling $1,805,000. The appropriation was voted by the General Assembly’s Budgetary and Finance Committee.
The committee voted at the same time a budget of $16,450 for the technical representative of the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine. That official is in charge of long-standing efforts to identify and evaluate the worth of real estate and other permanent property abandoned in Israel by the Arab refugees who left Israel in large numbers in 1948.
Libya today called on the United Nations to expel Israel for “defying” the world organization by refusing to admit the Arab refugees and “at the very least” to impose economic sanctions against Israel for “failing to recognize the unquestionable determination of the refugees to return to their homeland.”
These proposals were advanced in the General Assembly’s Special Political Committee, which is now in its second week of debate on the Arab refugee problem, by Libya’s representative in the body. Another speaker in the committee, Abdul Hamiz Aziz, of Afghanistan, told the group that his government “supports the aims of the Palestine Liberation Organization.” The PLO is now recruiting Arab refugees for war against Israel.
Both speakers supported, as interim moves, extension for a five-year period of the mandate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which provides aid to the refugees, and approval of an “adequate” UNRWA budget. UNRWA’s current mandate is due to expire by the end of June, 1966.
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