Lt. Gen. Odd Bull, chief of staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, left his headquarters today for a visit to Damascus to confer with the leading Syrian military authorities about the situation on the Syrian-Israeli border.
The UN truce chief, it is understood, will discuss particularly the problem of resurveying a portion of the Syrian-Israeli frontier where grave fighting developed last November between Syria and Israel after Syria claimed that Israeli military patrols used a border path that edged into its territory.
Last month, a majority of the UN Security Council voted a resolution, vetoed by the Soviet Union, calling for a resurvey of that path. Israel has repeatedly asserted that it is willing to cooperate in that demarcation, but Syria is understood to be insisting that the entire length of its frontier with Israel be resurveyed.
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