Consideration of Israel’s latest border dispute with Syria by the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization was suspended today for the time being when many key truce officers were ordered to the strife-wracked Congo.
Major General Carl C. von Horn, head of the truce organization, had been scheduled to fly to New York to confer with Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. Gen. von Horn visited Damascus last week after a series of Israel-Syrian border incidents which prompted a complaint by Israel to the Security Council and a counter-complaint by the United Arab Republic.
Twelve officers of the truce organization were assigned today to leave shortly as an advance guard of UN observers in the Congo. Arrangements were being made for a special UN aircraft to fly them directly to the African country.
General von Horn is expected to go to the Congo soon to take up the post of commander of UN Emergency Force troops ordered there by the Security Council. It was not indicated whether Gen. von Horn would go directly to the Congo or fly to New York first for a briefing from the Secretary General.
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