The Jordan Government is studying the Israeli call on the United Nations to convoke a direct Israel-Jordan meeting to discuss revisions and changes in the armistice agreement, the details of which were cabled to Amman last week, the United Nations was told yesterday in a cable from the Jordan Government.
The Jordan reply to Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold said that a full reply would be made at a later date, but did not indicate when it would be sent.
Observers here were speculating what the Jordan Government was “studying” about the proposal. They pointed out that the armistice pact provision invoked by Israel made participation by both parties mandatory and failure to come to the conference table meant a breach of the treaty. This left the only subjects for “study” the time and place of the parley, which observers feel are at the discretion of the Secretary General.
(The Times of London said it was a “pity” that the U.N. Security Council had failed to combine its censure of Israel over the Kibya incident with strong support for Israel’s initiative in calling a conference with Jordan. While Israel’s motive in calling the conference may have been tactical, the paper declared, “the move was, in itself, commendable.”)
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