The Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Committee today agreed to extend to June 1 a temporary agreement between the two states calling for direct contact between local commanders on both sides of the border to prevent infiltration and unlawful border crossings.
The meeting, which was conducted in a cordial atmosphere, according to the official communique issued after the session, agreed to the elimination of 15 specific complaints. During the session, the U.N. chairman of the commission declared that he personally had seen Arab owned flocks of sheep grazing on Israel territory and had seen Arabs from Jordan territory tending plots of land inside Israel.
The Israeli spokesman urged the Jordanians to implement a clause in the agreement for local contact which provides for regular troops rather than militia units to guard the frontiers. The Jordanians on the commission stressed that occasional border incidents do not affect the basic good relations existing between the two countries.
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