The General Assembly’s Administrative and Budgetary Committee today voted a 1967 budget for the United Nations Emergency Force, totaling $14,000,000. The sum had been recommended by the committee’s advisory committee and was $304,000 less than the amount requested for UNEF’s operation by Secretary-General U Thant.
In another resolution, the committee increased UNEF’s 1966 budget by $1,146,000 above the allocation already made for this purpose, bringing UNEF’s total budget for 1966 to $16,146,000. UNEF is the international peace-keeping force that stands on guard between Egyptian and Israeli borders on the Egyptian-controlled side of the Gaza Strip and at Sharm el-Sheikh, in the Sinai Desert, overlooking Israel’s Gulf of Akaba route to the Bed Sea.
(In Amman, capital of Jordan, a government spokesman said last night that Jordan has made it a condition before the Arab Defense Council this weekend to have the United Nations Emergency Force withdrawn from the Egyptian-Israeli border, if Jordan is to adm Iraqi and Saudi Arabian troops into its territory for “protection” against Israel. The Jordanian stipulation appeared to check the plans of other Arab countries to extend their troops further along the Israeli frontier, since it was unlikely that the United Nations would remove its forces and risk a further increase in Middle East tensions.)
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