BEIRUT: Pakistan tops the list of the Muslim countries getting 49 million dollars aid by the major Arab oil exporting nations (OAPEC). A decision to this effect was taken by the Finance Ministers of the OAPEC meeting in Kuwait last week, according to local political weekly `Al Dyar`. The decision is yet to be ratified by the 10 OAPEC Governments. ... The Finance Ministers decided to donate massively to other Muslim oil importers and to create a new economic unit as a first step to establishing a common Arab currency. News agencies [Meanwhile as reported by news agencies from Hamburg,] UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim said today [May 11] that afterthe politicaldecolonisation aprocess of economic decolonisation is necessary.

Speaking in a West German television programme, [he] said one of the most difficult problems ... was that of reforming economic conditions in the world. The old economic regime no longer sufficed, not even for the world`s rich countries, Dr Waldheim said. ...

Asked about [UN] influence on world conflicts, [he] said that in cases in which UN assistance was asked true solutions had not been found, but the situation ... had been brought under ... control.