Israel’s invocation of Article of Article XII of the armistice agreement with a view to bring about direct talks with Jordan is favored by the U.S. Government, it was indicated here today by a highly-placed State Department source.
It is felt here that Jordan has no choice but to agree to the face-to-face meeting with Israel since this is provided by the specific article of the Israel-Jordan armistice agreement invoked by Israel at the U.N. Security Council session this week. It is also felt here that some good results may come from such a meeting.
The State Department source said that the Department is closely following developments at the United Nations involving Israel and feels that the Jewish State was within its rights in invoking Article XII of the Israel-Jordan armistice pact.
Sen. John F. Kennedy, of Massachusetts, has expressed concern to the State Department over United States support of the United Nations resolution censuring Israel for the Kibya attack. In a letter to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.
Sen. Kennedy urged this government to seek a United Nations resolution calling for permanent peace negotiations and settlements in the Near East.
The Senator said he was “very much concerned with this nation’s position in the United Nations with respect to the censuring of Israel regarding the Kibya incident.” Stating that such incidents as Kibya were deplorable on either side and that the United Nations must prevent such violations of the truce, Sen. Kennedy asked; “But, more important, does not this incident present the United Nations and the United States with an opportunity to urge more vigorously a more effective and permanent peace in the Near East.”
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