The chiefs of state of the 13 Arab League nations opened their summit conference in Alexandria last night with the primary purpose of arriving at some form of agreement on joint countermeasures to Israel’s Jordan River irrigation project, and on the establishment of a united Arab military command. Action on both these measures was announced at the conclusion of the last Arab summit conference in January, but no progress has been made on either project to date.
At the opening session, the Arab leaders approved an agenda which includes a discussion of threatened Arab projects to divert the Jordan waters from Israeli use. The conference agenda also includes follow-up action on decisions of the first Arab leaders’ meeting on the establishment of a united military command, and the presentation of the Arab case to the rest of the world. Lack of progress on the Arab Jordan River diversion projects was attributed by observers here to the unwillingness of Lebanon to accommodate any other Arab military forces in their territory, where most of the Jordan River tributaries have their source.
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