Foreign Minister Abba Eban repeated Israel’s conditions for the revival of the Jarring Mission in the Knesset yesterday. He said the United Nations special envoy would have to drop his insistence on a positive reply from Israel to his Feb. 8, 1971 memo calling for Israel’s withdrawal to its pre-June, 1967 borders. He must also repudiate any connection of his mission with the General Assembly’s resolution of last Dec. 13 which made the same demand of Israel, Eban said.
UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim told a press conference earlier this week that he would like to reactivate the Jarring mission but did not elaborate. The Foreign Ministry here said it had not been approached on the matter.
Eban recalled that the Jarring Mission derived its mandate from the Nov. 22, 1967 resolution of the Security Council which spoke of withdrawal from territories but not from all territories. That was the basis for the resolution’s acceptance by Israel, Eban said.
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