P.L.O. seems likely to get I.M.F. status
NZPA London The "controversial Palestine Liberation Organisation is on course to gain observer status at the anual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank later this year. . Granting the; P.L.O. its request seems likely to be the eventual outcome of. the studies being made in Paris by an I.M.F. committee headed by the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr ' The eight-natiori.committee adjourned for three months yesterday, Mr Taiboys saying that its meeting in May will produce the report on the P.L.O. ordered by the I.M.F. in Belgrade last year. - Observers 1 said the fact the cqmmittee"— evenly balanced between pros and antis — was still meeting, was indicative of progress , and Mr Tai-
boys won praise for steering the two sides towards middle ground. If the eight, New Zealand, France,. Germany, Belgium, Pakistan, Yugoslavia, Nigeria, and Indonesia had stuck to their original stances observers said, the meeting would have broken up without resolution when it first met in November. “The fact that it did not indicates they are working towards a satisfactory outcome and that each side is prepared to weigh the arguments of the other,” NZPA was., told. Discussion apparently has ranged far beyond the central issue of whether the : P.L.O. should be able to sit in on the annual meetings of the world’s main Finance Ministers and bankers. Although deliberations have been in strict secrecy
because of the sensitivity of the issue, there have been enough leaks to show that the whole question of the P.L.O. and its aims for a Palestine state, have been probed. “We have not just been talking about the 1.M.F.” one delegate said. “There is a whole range of issues and implications to be considered.” The committee in May will prepare its final report which will go to the successor of the Prime Minister (Mr Muldoon) as I.M.F. chairman, the Tanzanian Finance Minister (Mr Amir Jamal). On the basis of the report, he will rule whether the P.L.O. should be allocated seats in Washington in September. Mr Taiboys arrived in London late las’t week and spent the week-end relaxing in Oxford.
P.L.O. seems likely to get I.M.F. status
Press, 18 February 1980, Page 6
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