The Israel Government today submitted a complaint against Syria to the U.N. Security Council charging the Syrian delegation at the United Nations with violating the U.N. Charter by threatening the use of force to “extinguish the identity and political independence of another state.”
The complaint was submitted by Israeli chief delegate Abba S. Eban who quoted from a speech delivered by Syrian delegate Ahmed Shukeiri at the U.N. Political Committee on January 22 in which the Arab declared that he looked forward to the elimination of Israel from the United Nations. In that speech the Syrian delegate also warned Israel of “a storm that would tear the structure of Israel down to its foundations.”
Emphasizing that the Government of Israel did not recall any other instance of a member state of the United Nations making such an open threat against the political independence of another state, Mr. Eban pointed out that “Israel will resist any unauthorized traffic across the Israeli-Syrian armistice lines whether of military forces or of groups of civilians.”
At the same time, Mr. Eban dismissed the recent charges made by the Jordan Government in a letter addressed to the U.N. Secretary-General. He termed the allegation that Israel had violated the Israeli-Jordan armistice agreement as “distorted and inaccurate.” He pointed to a series of decisions by the Israeli-Jordan mixed armistice commission holding Jordan responsible for 59 violations of the agreement while Israel was blamed for only one violation.
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