Dr. G.J. van Heuven Goedhart was approved by the General Assembly this week-end as High Commissioner for Refugees for a term of five years, beginning Jan. 1. Dr. Goedhart has been serving in this office since Jan. 1, 1951, and was the choice of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold to fill the post for the new, longer term.
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