784A.00/1–550: Airgram
The Chargé in Jordan (Fritzlan) to the Secretary of State
A–4. Reference Department’s telegram 82, June 17, 19491 regarding the desirability of establishing a special committee which should supersede the Jordan Mixed Armistice Committee [Commission] and should meet under the chairmanship of General Riley.
On June 20, 1949, the Legation conveyed this proposal to the Jordan Government. On January 3, 1950, the Legation received a note from the Jordan Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicating that, although the Jordan Government has been generally in favor of the [Page 669] proposals set forth in the Legation’s note, the Israeli authorities have consistently refused to accept the chairmanship of General Riley.2
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs requested that this information be brought to the Department’s attention as a matter of record only.
- Not printed; but see footnote 1 to telegram 375, June 17, 1949, Foreign Relations 1949, vol. vi, p. 1154.↩
- Maj. Gen. William E. Riley, United Nations Chief of Staff of the Truce Supervision Organization and Chairman of the Mixed Armistice Commissions in Palestine.↩