The Jordanian Parliament has decided to hail before it for questioning all Jordan “officials responsible for signing the Rhodes armistice agreement with Israel,” the Arab newspaper, Addifa — published in the Jors dan-held Old City of Jerusalem — said today.
Reporting on the Jordan Parliament’s debate of the issue, Addifa said that one deputy, Abdul Fatah Darwish, urged Jordan to revoke the armistice pact with Israel, claiming that the document was “little different from the Balfour Declaration.”
Meanwhile, the Israel-Jordan mixed survey commission operating in the Negev returned to Jerusalem this week-end following the completion of its on-the-spot investigation of the demarcation line on the road which leads to Eilath. After establishing the exact location of the disputed area, subject of a clash between Jordan and Israel armed forces, the Jordanian members of the survey commission refused to continue the marking of the frontier when they noticed that a small stretch of land nitherto in Jordan’s possession actually belonged to Israel. The entire matter will be referred to the mixed armistice commission for clarification.
U.N. truce chief Gen. William Riley declared in a Christmas message that “considerable progress in the direction of peace between Israel and the Arab countries has been made during the concluding year.” He emphasized that with the “world facing a crisis, it behooves all of us — Arabs and Israelis and U.N. representatives — to strive in all ways possible during the coming year to find a satisfactory solution to the very difficult problems facing us in the Near East.”
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