Dr. Francisco Urrutia, UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold’s personal representative has completed his mission for Mr. Hammarskjold and is returning to New York tomorrow, it was learned here today.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman said that Dr. Urrutia had made satisfactory progress, but he would not disclose any details. It is understood that the Colombian diplomat removed some of the obstacles in the way of implementation of a pact he negotiated some months ago between Israel and Jordan on the Mt. Scopus situation.
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