UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold warned Jordan today that if it did not reply soon to his message convoking a conference with Israel, he would have to set a date for this meeting.
“My own feeling,” Mr. Hammarskjold said, “is that we should not let April pass without a meeting. “He added that he felt that the Israel-Jordan conference should be started during the first half of April.
The Secretary General said that the had received “no word from Amman yet.” In reply to a question, Mr. Hammarskjold said that if Jordan did not turn up at the conference then Israel had the right the matter up before the Security Council.
The UN Secretary General, in the course of his regular bi-weekly press conference, announced that UN water experts arrived in Palestine yesterday to make an on-the-spot study of Palestine waters. He indicated that these men would act as technical advisors not only to the Bunche committee which he has set up to aid him but also to Maj. Gen. Vagn Bennike, the chief of staff of the UN truce supervision organization in Palestine.
Mr. Hammarskjold agreed it would be a “dangerous development” if members disregarded Security Council decisions. He made this comment in reply to a question about the fact that Egypt considered itself right in refusing to comply with the Security Council decision ordering it to desist from interfering with Israel-bound shipping in the Suez Canal. Mr. Hammarskjold said it was a “basic misfortune” if a country failed in its duties to the United Nations, but he did not see any great danger of this as far as the international organization was concerned.
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