THE JEWISH NEWS— 43
Syria-Israel Territorial
Dispute Is Tackled by UN
,
Friday, April 20, 1951
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TEL AVIV—Several hours pri-
or to the opening today of the
United Nations Security Coun-
cil's session to deal with the Is-
rael-Syrian conflict, Israel's For-
eign Minister Moshe Sharett re-
ceived the U. S. Ambassador
Monnet B. Davis as well as the
British and Foreign Ministers in
Israel and discussed with them
the stand of the Israel govern-
' ment towards the issues which
precipitated the conflict.
Charges and Counter Charges
LAKE SUCCESS—The United
Nations Security Council con-
vened to consider Israeli and
Syrian complaints arising from
- the Syrian-Israeli conflict pre-
cipitated by the invasion of Is-
raeli territory by Syrian troops
and the killing there of seven Is-
raeli civilian policemen.
Eight Syrian charges against
Israel lead off the agenda. They
are followed by three Israeli
complaints against Syria. The
principal charges brought by
Syria before the Security Coun-
cil are:
1. That Israel violated the armistice
agreement by starting and continuing op-
•erations for draining the Huleh swamps
within the demilitarized zone against the
wishes of Syria Arab land owners and
against the advice of UN truce super-
visors.
2. That Israeli forces occupied de-
militarized zones in the Israel-Syrian bor-
der and that Israeli police patrols 'de-
liberately" attacked a Syrian post in an
attempt to occupy the village of Hamma
"where they were repulsed with loss."
The .-other -Syrian charges claim that
Israeli military personnel- fired mortars
at Syrian military positions, that Syrian
. military posts and Arab villages were
demolished by Israeli bombing and that
Israel evacuated Arab inhabitants by
force from the demilitarized zone. .
The Israeli charge's are that
Syria violated the armistice
agreement by persistent firing at
civilian workers on Israel terri-
tory in the demilitarized zone,
that Syrian armed . forces enter-
' ed the demilitarized zone in Is-
rael territory in the Hamma vi-
-- cinity and that Syrian troops
killed seven Israeli civilian po-
licemen near Hamma.
It was officially reported that
Syria followed Israel's example
mitted by Col. Bennett De Ridder,
mitted by Col. Bennett De Rider,
acting UN Truce Chief, to both
parties as a prerequisite for the
resumption of normal activities
of the Israeli-. Syrian Mixed
Armistice Commission. Israel ac-
cepted the four points last week.
They are:
1. All military and para=military , forces
of both sides to be withdraWil from the
demilitarized zone; 2. No further fight-
ing within the zone or across demarca-
Lion lines; -3. UN observers to be afford-
ed every facility for carrying out their
duties; 4. The responsibility of the chair-
man of the mixed armistice commission
to implement the article in the armistice
agreement concerning resumption of nor-
mal life in the demilitarized zone to be
reaffirmed by both states.
The Syrian acceptance came
on Sunday in the form of a let-
ter to Col. De Ridder from the
Senior Syrian delegate to the
.mixed armistice commission,
:Commander Djid, who voiced his
country's readiness to partici-
pate in any emergency meeting .
•:of the mixed armistice commis-
sion convened by the chairman,
but said he felt obliged to
bring to the attention of the
acting chief of staff that no
•Syrian military or para-military
forces had penetrated the demil-
-
• -
itarized zone.
Ref e r ring to demarcation
"lines," the Syrian official de-
clared that only one such line
was defined in t h e Armistice
agreement. He reserved Syria's
rights regarding such questions
as the stoppage of work in the
region, the return of Arab civil-
ians to their villages and the
compensation of damage to their
property in the recent incidents.
Israel Urges Discussions Be
Left to Mixed Armistice Body
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y.—The
UN -Security Council Tuesday
- started discussions on the Israel-
Syria conflict, with Israel sug-
gesting that the Council should
reserve action i/L the dispute
while the Israeli-Syrian Mixed
Armistice Commission on the
spot continues to deal with the
problem, which precipitated the
conflict. •
Pointing out that the Armis-
tice Commission had secured the
agreements. of Israel and Syria
to four basic points of dispute,
Ambassador Abba Eban, Israel's
chief delegate at the UN, ex-
pressed the view at Tuesday's
session of the Council that
proper jurisdiction remains with
the UN Truce Commission in the
field.
Eban, who was invited to sit
at the Council table with his
Syrian counterpart, came to the
meeting unprepared to argue the
Israeli case in view of Israel's
opinion that the Security Coun-
cil was not yet the place for a
decision on the dispute. This
seems to be the view of the
United States and Great Britain.
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