Michael S. Comay. Israel’s permanent representative here, conferred for an hour today with Alex Quaison-Sackey, president of the General Assembly. They discussed the current deadlock in the General Assembly over the Soviet Union’s refusal to pay its overdue assessments toward the maintenance of the United Nations peacekeeping operations.
Mr. Comay was accompanied at the conference by Ambassador Gideon Rafael, of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, who is a member of this year’s Israeli delegation to the Assembly.
Meanwhile, Israel recommended to the United Nations today that a separate program for the advancement of the role of women in underdeveloped countries be established by the world organization. Israel urged special emphasis on the education of women for full participation in the social, technical and economic life of those lands.
The Israel Government’s recommendations were reported to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women by Secretary General U Thant. The latter had requested all UN members to provide their ideas for the advancement of the role of women throughout the world. The Israeli comments were among 35 circulated by Mr. Thant in a preliminary report to the Commission on the Status of Women.
Israel informed the UN that it has based its recommendations “on the experience of and close contact with the problems which confront women in developing countries, mainly in Africa, and which have been discussed at seminars and courses held at the Carmel Corter for Community Development, at Haifa… “Since April 1961, Israel reported, three seminars and six courses have been conducted at the center in Haifa, taking the role of women a underdeveloped countries, rural community development, home economics extension work and the role of voluntary agencies in community development.
“The economic and social conditions of developing countries,” Israel told the United Nations. “can be greatly enhanced by raising the skills of their women.”
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