The United Nations Security Council will meet tomorrow afternoon to resume discussion of the New Zealand resolution dealing with Israel’s complaint against the Egyptian blockade of the Suez Canal and the Gulf of Akaba against Israel-bound shipping. The resolution is backed by the Western Powers.
Although the New Zealand resolution refers the Israeli complaint on Egyptian interference with shipping in the Gulf of Akaba to the Israel-Egyptian Armistice Commission in the first instance, the sponsors of the resolution made it abundantly clear in the debate that they consider the principles enunciated by the Security Council resolution of September 1, 1951 enjoining Egypt from blockade practices in the Suez Canal applies to the Gulf of Akaba as well.
American delegate Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., made this point in a direct statement last Thursday when he declared that the MAC, in considering the complaint of the Gulf of Akaba must be bound not only by the provisions of the armistice agreement but also by the 1951 Security Council resolution.
Sir Pierson Dixon, the British delegate, speaking on the resolution, also insisted that the same principle was involved in both blockades. Since the MAC has not considered the Gulf of Akaba situation, the New Zealand resolution refers the complaint on this matter to the MAC.
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