ISRAELI-JORDAN BORDER
TALKS SOUGHT ON DISPUTE
NEW YORK, November 23. Israel today invoked the provision of her armistice agreement with Jordan and called on tne United Nations Secretary-General (Mr Dag Hammarskjoeld) to summon both parties to talks on the Palestine dispute. Charging that Jordan had brushed aside Israel’s informal call' for talks on mounting border incidents, the Israel Ambassador (Mr Abba Eban) requested the Secretary-General to put into effect the article of the Israeli-Jordan agreement authorising him to summon both parties to obligatory talks.
In London, a British Foreign Office spokesman today rejected the claim by Mr David Ben Gurion, the Israeli Prime Minister, that Western censure of Israel for last month’s attack on the Jordanian village of Qibya was onesided.
The spokesman denied that the British had overlooked Jordanian frontier crossings, and was prejudiced against Israel.
Jordanian incursions into Israel had not been made on an basis, whereas in the British view, the Qibya raid was of exceptional gravity, both because of its scale, and because it was organised by Israeli regulars.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27206, 25 November 1953, Page 11
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