The Jordan authorities today again submitted a complaint to the United Nations mixed armistice commission asserting that Israel continues to use the disputed part of the road to Elath, in the Negev, which was occupied last week by Jordan’s Arab Legion. The Jordanians asked that the armistice commission hold an emergency meeting to discuss the situation.
A United Nations observer arrived today on the Arab side of the disputed area to check on the situation. Brig. Gen. William Riley, head of the U.N. truce commission, is expected to arrive tonight in Jerusalem. Following his arrival another meeting of the mixed armistice commission will probably take place.
Meanwhile, it became known today that Israel is preparing a memorandum for submission to the armistice commission regarding the situation on Mt. Scopus where the Jordan authorities have created new difficulties for Israel’s convoys, by misinterpreting the Rhodes armistice pact, which provides that Jordan is to allow the passage of “visitors” through its territory to the Hadassah Hospital and Hebrew University, which are situated on Mt. Scopus. Jordan interprets the word “visitors” to mean only professors.
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