After seven weeks of fruitless negotiations the Israeli-Syrian armistice talks today broke off “until and if” the United Nations submits a proposal acceptable to both sides. Meanwhile, Israeli and Syrian liaison officers will meet in no-man’s land tomorrow to discuss an exchange of prisoners of war.
Lt. Col. Mordecai Makleff, head of the Israeli delegation, revealed that the earlier proposal by U.N. mediator Dr. Ralph Bunche was not acceptable because it was interpreted differently by both sides. The two delegations are deadlocked with the Jews insisting on a withdrawal of both forces to the old Palestine border and the Syrians refusing.
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