The United Nations Palestine Conciliation Commission, composed of representatives of the United States, France and Turkey, today resumed here its efforts to bring about permanent peace between Israel and the Arab countries.
In a statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Dr. Tewfik Rustu Aras, the new Turkish member of the Commission, said that Turkey is greatly interested in having permanent peace established in the Middle East. “With my experience as a former Foreign Minister and as author of Saabad’s Pact, I hope to give new impetus to the Commission’s efforts for direct peace negotiations,” he stated. “I shall begin by seeking first-hand information and shall visit, as soon as possible, Premier David Ben Gurion and Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett in a personal capacity.”
An Israel Army spokesman denied today a Beirut press report that at the last: Israel-Lebanese mixed armistice commission meeting, Israel offered indemnity for victims of the recent plane incident and that the Lebanese filed a formal complaint about a Lebanese who was killed by an Israel patrol in Lebanese territory yesterday.
The plane incident involved an Israel fighter which chased a Lebanese transport across the Lebanese border after firing a warning burst at it when the craft appeared over Israel territory. The Lebanese claimed that the Israel fighter’s burst killed several passengers.
The Israel spokesman said that the commission met only today when neither of the aforementioned issues was raised. A Lebanese marauder, he added, was killed last week when he entered Israel territory, a fact which the commission previously had confirmed.
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