U.N. Move Out of N.Y. Considered

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly may leave New York next September if the United States insists on closing the Palestine Liberation Organization mission here, officials said Friday.

The PLO was invited by the United Nations to participate in U.N. meetings without the right to vote and the threat to close its mission has caused controversy in the world body.

Officials said there is a real threat that a specially reconvened session of the General Assembly next week might agree to move the 43rd General Assembly, opening on Sept. 13, to Geneva or Vienna. The U.N. has subsidiary headquarters in both places.

U.N. financial experts were directed to assess the cost of a possible switch and report urgently to Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar so that he could lay the data before the General Assembly, officials said.