The evacuation of Israel and Syrian forces from Mishmar Hayarden and the surrounding area will he carried out according to the provisional timetable set forth in the armistice agreement between the two nations, it was decided at a meeting yesterday of the mixed Syrian-Israel armistice commission. The parley took place in a customs house near the Bnot Yaacov Bridge on the Syrian-Israel border.
U.N. Chief of Staff Gen. William E. Riley and Lt. Col. Moshe Dayan, chairman of all Israel armistice delegations, both attended the meeting at which it was also decided that all mines and ammunition dumps would be removed from the Mishmar Hayarden area and all fortifications there would be destroyed within the next three weeks. The decision to clear this area so speedily was made in order to permit former inhabitants to return to their homes immediately.
The Israelis at the meeting also announced that they had destroyed seven military positions in the vicinity of Ein Gev, on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee, to which the Syrians objected at the last meeting of the joint commission. The Jews are also dismantling a new settlement established south of Ein Gev.
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