The three members of the U.N. Conciliation Commission on Palestine today decided to make a special appeal to Israel and the Arab countries before taking final action to suspend the Arab-Jewish talks, Reuters reported today from Lausanne.
“The report said that at a secret meeting the commissioners “resolved that tomorrow they would see Dr. Walter Eytan, head of the Israeli delegation here, and that Hussein Yaltchin, Turkish member of the Commission, would talk to the leaders of the four Arab delegations during the week.
It was understood the commissioners would ask each side to make a “serious effort” to produce proposals which stand a chance of being accepted by the other. If this appeal has no result, it was believed, the commissioners may break up the Lausanne talks, but will arrange to keep in touch with Israel and the Arab states in order to resume work if any chance of fruitful talks reappears, the Reuters report Stated.
The commissioners are to meet the four Arab delegations this evening to discuss the future status of Jerusalem. Prospects of obtaining a solution on this were to be “reasonably good, “Reuters reported. The future of Jerusalem and the Arab refuses from Palestine were the two problems on which the Conciliation Commission was specifically instructed to work by the United Nations General Assembly.
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