The Israel Foreign office said today that the action of the Security Council yesterday in the Israel-Jordan afforestation dispute ignored established rights and usages and might undermine the validity of the Israel-Jordan armistice agreement.
The statement said that the Israel Government’s attitude toward the recommendations of the Security Council, which sent the dispute to the United Nations Truce Supervisory Organization and the Mixed Armistice Commission, would be determined by the extent to which they were in conformity with the “accepted facts, rights and obligations” deriving from the armistice agreement.
The Foreign Office expressed regret that at a time when the international community was facing crucial and pressing problems, the Security Council should have been called on to deal with “trees in no-man’s-land.” In this way, the Israel statement said, a minor local problem had been magnified to the proportions of an international conflict.
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