PREMATURE END TO U.N. SESSION
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NEW YORK, February 16.
The strangest General Assembly session in United Nations history is expected to grind to a halt today, paralysed by the financial crisis.
When the assembly meets today it is expected that the nineteenth session will be written off, along with its 92-item agenda.
Moves will then begin to make a fresh start in September when the new session is due to begin. Intensive negotiations, aimed at resolving the crisis will take place in the meantime. In the 11 weeks since the assembly opened on December 1 no item of controversial business has been dealt with This would immediately have raised a challenge to the voting rights of those members who owe the United Nations money.
France, Belgium and South Africa have now joined Russia and most of the Soviet
bloc in owing the- United Nations the equivalent of two years’ dues. The task of finding a solution acceptable to both sides now will be handed to a special negotiating committee Membership of this committee has been the subject of back-stage consultations and agreement is reported near. I
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30677, 17 February 1965, Page 13
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