A long overdue attempt to ease the Middle East tension is expected when United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold confers here tomorrow with United Arab Republic Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi.
Despite denials by United Nations sources, the two statesmen are expected to discuss the latest clashes on the Israel-Syrian frontier as well as the announced agenda of UAR legal relations with various UN bodies–arising from the merger of Egypt and Syria, both UN member states, into one republic.
However, reliable sources here expect the entire range of Middle East problems to come under survey and, in this connection, place particular emphasis on the fact that Mr. Hammarskjold has just been in Moscow talking with Soviet leaders while UAR President Nasser is scheduled to pay an early visit to the Kremlin. Among the subjects which will be on the agenda will be the status of the UN Emergency Force in Sinai and the Gaza Strip and the issue of freedom of shipping through the Suez Canal and the Gulf of Akaba.
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