The United Nations Security Council today failed again, for the fifth time, to find a formula on how to discuss the Jordanian and Israeli complaints against each other – whether to talk about them item by item, or as a whole. It adjourned until tomorrow.
The only development at today’s meeting was the withdrawal by British delegate Sir Pierson Dixon of his suggestion that a new item should be added to the agenda to discuss “compliance with and enforcement of the general armistice agreement between Israel and Jordan.”
The joint Brazilian-Colombian proposal that a general discussion be held in which reference may be made to any or all of the items on the agenda – which is opposed by the Soviet Union and Lebanon, but has the support of the Western Powers, Denmark, New Zealand – was about to be voted upon, but obstructionist tactics by Soviet delegate Andrei Vishinsky and by Lebanese delegate Dr. Charles Malik, who speaks at the Security Council for all the Arab countries, prevented a vote on the proposal.
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