A plenary meeting of the General Assembly gave final approval to a resolution returning the draft covenant on human rights to the U.N. Human Rights Commission for further work on the draft. The vote was taken despite the warnings of some delegates that the resolution left highly confused just what kind of a draft the General Assembly wanted.
The resolution included instructions to the Commission to consider writing into the covenant a number of varying and even conflicting proposals concerning implementation and a broader scope of the covenant.
A survey by the United Nations Statistical Office, published today, places Israel 16th on a list of 70 nations tabulated on the basis of per capita national income. The U.N. survey, covering the year 1949, is topped by the United States with $1,453 as the average per capita income. Israel, whose figure was $389, was listed higher than the Soviet Union, South Africa, Argentina and all the Arab countries.
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