Secretary General U Thant predicted today that the four Big Powers will have reached sufficient agreement on a Middle East solution by mid-January to permit Ambassador Gunnar V. Jarring to resume his mission to bring about peace between Israel and the Arab states.
Mr. Thant told newsmen at a press conference that he “had a feeling” that this would be the case. Dr. Jarring was named as the United Nations special peace envoy to the Middle East in early 1968 under terms of the Security Council’s Nov. 22, 1967 Mideast resolution. He suspended his mission last spring while the Four Powers sought to reach a general area of agreement on a Middle East settlement which would serve as a guideline for Dr. Jarring. The U.S. and Soviet Russia pursued the same goal in bilateral talks which paralleled the Four Power deliberations. Dr. Jarring has since resumed his post as Sweden’s Ambassador to Moscow.
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