The U.N. Conciliation Commission’s special Jerusalem subcommittee is putting the finishing touches on its plan for the internationalization of the city, it was learned here today.
The subcommittee’s plan will soon be submitted to the full Commission at Lausanne so that the latter may present it to the General Assembly next month as part of an overall report of its activities.
It is learned that the plan provides for an overall international control with complete autonomy for the Jewish and Arab areas. The plan is said to be virtually a form of partition except that neither the Arabs nor the Israelis will be permitted to establish their capital in the city. U.N. sources admit that they do not have the means to impose such a solution, but they hope to bring the plan into existence on “purely moral authority.”
Asked to comment on the lifting of the Middle East arms embargo by the Security Council, a U.N. source declared that “the embargo was violated daily everywhere in the Near East, therefore the Security Council took the easiest course, thus avoiding permanent damage to the United Nations’ prestige.”
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