The British and Jordan Governments have been exchanging views during the past two weeks on the Israel-Jordan border situation, the Times of London revealed here today.
The newspaper reported that the British Government is most concerned with re-establishing direct contact between Jordan and Israel in the wake of Israel’s boycott of the Mixed Armistice Commission. It adds that while Jordan refuses to meet with Israel under the terms of Article XII of the armistice agreement, it might be willing to confer if all the Arab states participated and if the agenda was restricted to the single item of border conflict.
Jordan is hoping to obtain British agreement to invocation of the Anglo-Jordan treaty of 1948 under which either party is required to come to the assistance of the other in the event of an attack. Jordan last tried to obtain British assistance to patrol the border in February 1953, but was not successful, the Times disclosed.
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