The mixed Israel-Jordan armistice commission today ratified an agreement previously reached limiting the type of armament which may be carriod on armored cars in the Jerusalem area and the number and type of artillery which may be maintained by both sides in Jerusalem and the “triangle” area.
However, an attempt to achieve a division of the area surrounding Government House, U.N. headquarters in Jerusalem, failed. As a result, the House itself will continue to remain under United Nations control while an Arab agricultural College which adjoins it will remain in the hands of the Israelis.
(At Lake Success today the U.N. released a year-end report by Brig. Gen. William E. Riley, U.N. Chief of Staff in Palestine, on the activities of the four mixed armistice commissions operating between Israel and the Arab states. Timed to coincide with the first anniversary of the signing of the Israel-Egypt armistics pact, the report says that the Arabs and Israelis are cooperating to alleviate innumerable human problems arising between them. It records a number of successes in negotiating exchanges of prisoners, demarcation of front lines, return of Arab families to Israel and the solution of other problems.)
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