Secretary-General asked to monitor any new Dead Sea Canal development. (Javier Perez de Cuellar) From: UN Chronicle | Date: February 1, 1986 | COPYRIGHT 1986 United Nations Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Secretary-General asked to monitor any new Dead Sea Canal development

After learning that Israel would not pursue a plan to build a canal linking the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, the General Assembly asked the Secretary-General to monitor "on a continuing basis" any new development relating to that plan and to report all its findings to the Assembly. It also stipulated it would resume consideration of the subject in case activities by Israel relating to that canal w...

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