Israel has accepted “in principle” the proposal made by Secretary-General U Thant for an extraordinary meeting of the Syrian Israeli Mixed Armistice Commission to try to avert what Mr. Thant has called the danger of “a large-scale clash of military forces” on the Israeli-Syrian borders.
A spokesman for the United Nations made that announcement here today, and stated that Ambassador George J, Tomeh of Syria has given Mr. Thant a “formal reply which was affirmative and without conditions.”
The Israeli Mission to the United Nations said that at 8 a.m. yesterday, Eliahu Sasson, director of armistice affairs in Israel’s Foreign Ministry at Jerusalem, “gave an affirmative reply” to Lt. Gen. Odd Bull, chief of staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization.
The United Nations spokesman said that, in informing Mr. Thant of Israel’s acceptance of the proposal “in principle,” Ambassador Michael S. Comay told the Secretary General that “certain points” regarding the conversation between Mr. Sasson and Gen, Bull were still to be “clarified,” Both Mr. Thant and Mr. Comay agreed that a written reply from Israel was in order, but the Israeli diplomat said he was not certain he could file the written reply today.
(A Jewish Telegraphic Agency dispatch from Jerusalem today indicated that the special session of the Syrian-Israeli Mixed Armistice Commission might be held in a few days at the international bridge between Syria and Israel at Bnot Yaakov, This was the site of the Syrian-Israeli Mixed Armistice Commission meetings held until 1954.)
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