The Foreign Ministry confirmed today that United Nations Secretary General U Thant has asked Israel to report on progress made toward implementing the Security Council’s May 21, 1967 resolution demanding the repeal of all steps taken to integrate and unify East and West Jerusalem. Mr. Thant’s note was sent after Jordan’s UN envoy Muhammed H. el-Farra asked him last week to furnish the Council with a report on implementation of the measure. Mr. Thant was also asked to request that Israel rescind without delay various measures that would make Israeli law applicable to businesses and professional endeavors in East Jerusalem.
The Ministry said that the Thant letter was “being studied.” The May 21 resolution required Mr. Thant to submit a progress report to the Security Council. Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and other members of the Government have said that the unification of Jerusalem is irrevocable.
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