Israel’s Parliamentary Foreign Affairs and Security Committee rejected today an opposition demand that the Knesset be called back into special session to consider Israel’s foreign policy, particularly its vote in favor of the joint Arab resolution at the recent special General Assembly empowering Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to seek peaceful mediation of Middle East conflicts. The committee acted after hearing testimony by Mrs. Golda Meir, Foreign Minister.
Mrs. Meir will lead the Israel delegation to the United Nations General Assembly session which opens in New York in mid-month, it was officially announced here today.
Other members of the delegation, the announcement said, will include Ambassador Abba Eban, Israel’s permanent delegate to the UN; Arthur Lurie. Ambassador to Canada; Michael Comay, assistant director of the Foreign Ministry; Mordecai Kidron, Minister to Thailand; Joseph Tekoah, who succeeds Mr. Kidron as deputy chairman of the delegation at the United Nations, and six Knesset deputies–four representing coalition parties and one each representing the General Zionist and National Religious Parties.
QUEEN MOTHER OF JORDAN PERMITTED TO FLY OVER ISRAEL TERRITORY TO LONDON
The press reported today that Britain and Jordan are due to start soon negotiations for the conclusion of a new treaty similar to the one breached when Jordan ousted Gen. John B Glubb two years ago. (In London, however, sources close to the Foreign Office denied that negotiations were to start for renewal of the old Anglo-Jordan pact.)
The reports also had it that Queen Zein, mother of King Hussein, who flew to London yesterday, will participate in the talks. It has been confirmed here, meanwhile, that the Queen flew over Israel territory in a British Air Force plane to whose overflight the Israeli authorities agreed.
Israeli officials denied a British report that the Jewish State had agreed to overflight of British planes between Cyprus and Jordan for purposes of plane maintenance. The ban on British overflights continues, it was stated, though from time to time an overflight for maintenance purposes is permitted, In each case permission must be granted.
A British Embassy spokesman in Tel Aviv today said that the Israel Government had only given permission for two British overflights since the airlift was discontinued and that the second of the two was for a plane which carried members of the Jordanian royal family (A denial of the existence of an Anglo-Israel agreement for British aircraft overflights was also made in London by a RAF spokesman.)
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