Gunnar Jarring, U.N. Secretary General U Thant’s special Mideast emissary, arrived here today on his sixth visit and consulted for 90 minutes with Foreign Minister Abba Eban.
Mr. Jarring, who came from Amman by car and crossed the bridge over the Jordan River, went on to his Cyprus headquarters following his meeting with Mr. Eban.
Official sources had no information on the subject of his talks. It is believed that Mr. Jarring’s present efforts are geared to finding points of contact between Israel and the Arabs while at the same time smoothing out differences to reduce friction. A main peacemaking attempt is expected to come at a later stage.
General Odd Bull, the Secretary General’s representative for cease-fire matters, returned here last night from Cairo and was expected to inform Israeli authorities of Egyptian plans for freeing the vessels stranded in the Suez Canal.
According to the Egyptian radio, plans call for a preliminary survey of the canal to begin next Saturday. Israel has agreed in principle to the extrication of 15 ships moored in the canal since last June.
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