The Palestine Conciliation Commission today informed the U. N. Secretary General that it had not changed its stand opposing the transfer of Israel Ministries to Jerusalem.
The communication was sent in reply to a letter of inquiry addressed by the U. N. Secretary General to the Commission last July asking for information on the transfer of the Israel Foreign Ministry from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In its reply, the Commission made no new comment, but referred to the position it had adopted in 1949.
At that time, the Commission wrote to the Prime Minister of Israel pointing out that the Israel Government’s intention of transfering its Ministries and departments to Jerusalem would be “incompatible with Paragraph 8 of the General Assembly resolution of 11 December, 1948,which resolved that the Jerusalem area should be accorded special and separate treatment from the rest of Palestine and should be placed under effective United Nations control.”
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