Israel delegate Abba Eban conferred with United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold and Security Council president Henri Hoppenot of France on the report which UN truce supervisor Gen. E. L. M. Burns cabled the Council about the Mixed Armistice Commission’s handling of the case of the Israel vessel Bat Galim, which was seized by Egypt in the Suez Canal.
Mr. Eban, it was learned today, expressed the hope that the Council would give early consideration to the Burns report. Earlier this month, the Council postponed consideration of Israel’s complaint against the Egyptian seizure of the vessel and its crew pending a report from the MAC, which had first received an Egyptian complaint alleging Israel violation of the armistice agreement. This charge was rejected by MAC in two meetings November 19 and 25.
Charles Malik of Lebanon is scheduled to assume the Security Council presidency Wednesday for the month of December, under the Council’s system of rotating the presidency.
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