For the first time in eight years, not a single Arab-Israel dispute came before the Security Council in 1960, according to figures revealed here today by the yearly tabulation of Security Council sessions.
During the calendar year 1960, the Council did hold four sessions on a complaint against Israel. But this complaint was one filed by Argentina, which charged that Israel had violated its sovereignty, thereby allegedly threatening peace and security, in the abduction of Adolf Eichmann, who had been captured in Buenos Aires. The latter, responsible for directing the extermination of 6, 000, 000 European Jews during the Nazi regime, is now awaiting trial in Israel for his war crimes.
The last twelve-month period when no Arab-Israeli disputes had come before the Security Council was in 1952. For a number of years after 1952, the disputes between the Arabs and Israel kept mounting in the Council, reaching 24 in 1953; 22 in 1954; and 12 in 1955. The number of Council sessions on disputes between the Arab states and Israel went up again in 1956, taking up 21 sessions. But, that year, a special emergency session of the Assembly and, later, a regular Assembly session, wrestled for months with the disputes around Israel’s campaign in the Sinai.
In 1957, the number of Council sessions on the so-called "Palestine Question" fell again, to 10, continuing the decline to a total of only four in 1958 and finally only one in 1959.
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