There has been no letter from Prime Minister David Ben Gurion to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on Israel-Jordan issues as reported in the American press this week-end, a spokesman for the Israel delegation said here. “The matters concerned, which are of limited scope, are under routine international discussions at appropriate levels,” he stated.
The Jordanian charges and Israel’s answer to those charges, concerning an Israeli over flight of Jordan’s territory, is “under investigation by the United Nations,” the spokesman said. Concerning the Jordanian complaint about Israel’s work on an afforestation project in the no-man’s land south of Jerusalem, the spokesman declared that “the present phase of this work has been completed.”
Meanwhile, Israel charged Saudi Arabia today with an outright lie because of last week’s Saudi Arabian complaint that Israel planes have flown over Saudi Arabian air space near the Gulf of Akaba. In a letter to the president of the Security Council, Abba Eban Israel’s permanent delegate wrote:
There is not a vestige of truth in the allegation contained in the letter of the chairman of the Saudi Arabian delegation of November 6, that Israel had violated Saudi Arabian air space. Israel aircraft are under strict orders to refrain from approaching Saudi Arabian air space, and there is no Israel air activity whatsoever in the area.”
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