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Title items-in-Peace-keeping operations - - correspondence with the

Date Created 16/01/1967

Record Type Archival Item

Container S-0861-0003: Peace-Keeping Operations Files of the Secretary-General: U Thant: Middle East

Print Name of Person Submit Image Signature of Person Submit UNITED KINGDOM MISSION TO THE 845 THIRD AVENUE NEW YORK, N.Y. 16 June, 1967.

Your Excellency, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram of 15 June in which you were good enough to transmit to me the text of a letter of the same date addressed to you by the Permanent Representative of I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurance of my highest consideration.

(Caradon)

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13 B - TEXT OF AIDE MEMO I RE SENT BY OUR AMBASSADOR IN LONDON TO THE BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE . AID MEMO I RE

1/ IN THE COURSE OF AMBASSADOR AHMED H. EL- FEKI'S MEETING WITH THE HONOURABLE GEORGE BROWN ON 18TH DECEMBER 196? . MR. BROWN EXPRESSED HIS HOPE THAT THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC GOVERN- i - MENT RELEASE THE FIFTEEN"SHIPS STRANDED IN THE SUEZ CANAL AS A MATTER OF URGENCY . 2/ MR . BROWN MADE , IN PARTICULAR, THE FOLLOWING POINTS: (A) THAT THE RELEASE OF THESE SHIPS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE DID NOT MEAN THE RE- OPENING OF THE SUEZ CANAL , (B) THAT THE RELEASE WOULD CONSTITUTE AN IMPORTANT STEP ON THE PART OF THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC GOVERNMENT WHICH WOULD GIVE IT GREAT CREDIT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM , (C) THAT HE BELIEVED THAT THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC SHOULD NOT ASK FOR ANYTHING IN RETURN FOR THAT GOODWILL GESTURE. (D) THAT HE BELIEVED SHOULD NOT INTERFERE FROM ITS POSITIONS ON THE EASTERN BANK. 3/ THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC GOVERNMENT , RESPONDING TO THE UNITED KINGDOMS DEMARCHES , AS WELL AS TO THOSE OF OTHER FRIENDLY GOVERNMENTS , FOR THE RELEASE OF THE STRANDED SHIPS, HAS MADE IT KNOWN THAT IT HAS AUTHORIZED THE CONDUCTING OF THE NECESSARY TECHNICAL STUDIES IN THIS REGARD , AND THAT IT INTENDS TO HELP THOSE SHIPS LEAVE THE CANAL . V HOWEVER , THE OFFICIAL TEXT OF THE ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTRY NOTE HANDED TO THE UNITED NATIONS CEASE- FIRE SUPERVISION HEADQUARTEES IN JERUSALEM , ACCORDING TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT OF 2ND JANUARY, 1968, SAID : " ANY ACTION BY EGYPT IN THE SUEZ CANAL WITHOUT PRIOR AGREEMENT OF ISRAEL WILL BE REGARDED AS A BREACH OF THE CEASE FIRE AGREEMENT AND THE NON NAVIGATION " AGREEMENT WHICH WAS AGREED UPON BY BOTH SIDES AS AN INTERPRET - AT I ON OF THE SAID CEASE- FIRE AGREEMENT . " 5/ THE UNITED ARAB REPBLIC GOVERNMENT HAS EVENTUALLY RECEIVED A LETTER DATED 2ND JANUARY FROM GENERAL ODD BULL , CHIEF OF THE UNITED NATIONS TRUCE SUPERVISION ORGANIZATION , CONTAINING THE TEXT OF AN ISRAELI NOTE IN WHICH THE ISRAELI AUTHORITIES ALLEGE THAT " ANY ACTIVITY IN THE SUEZ CANAL SHOULD REMAIN SUBJECT TO THE AGREEMENT TO ABSTAIN FROM NAVIGATION UNLESS OTHER ARRANGEMENTS ARE SPECIFICALLY AGREED UPON BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC . " £ 6/ IT IS WORTHY OF NOTE , IN THIS CONTEXT , THAT THE SECURITY COUNCIL DECISION OF 6TH JUNE ,1967 REPRESENTING THE CONSENSUS OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS CALLED FOR " IN IMMEDIATE CEASE- FIRE AND FOR A CESSATION OF ALL MILITARY ACTIVITIES IN THE AREA . "

?/ LETTERS EXCHANGED BETWEEN GENERAL ODD BULL , CHIEF OF THE UNITED NATIONS TRUCE SUPERVISION ORGANIZATION, AND OFFICIALS OF THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS REA- - FFIRMED THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLICS AND ISRAELS PLEDGE NOT TO CARRY OUT MILITARY ACTIVITY . 1/ ON 27TH JULY , 1967 ODD BULL CALLLED UPON THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC AND "ISRAEL TO STOP ALL MILITARY ACTIVITIES IN THE SUEZ CANAL " INCLUDING THE MOVEMENTS IN OR INTO THE CANAL OF BOATS AND CRAFT ."HE ADDED , HOWEVER, THE EXCEPTION THAT " IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT THE CANAL AUTHORITIES WILL CONTINUE TO REVICTUAL AND ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THE SHIPS STRANDED IN THE CANAL "HE FURTHER STATED THAT THE ABOVE MEASURES ARE " WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE POLITICAL , LEGAL OR OTHER ISSUES WHICH THE PARTIES CONCERNED MAY CONSIDER ,»' 9/ FROM THE FOREGOING IT WILL APPEAR THAT (A) THE ACT OF THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC OF HELPING TO RELEASE THE STRANDED SHIPS CANNOT , BY ANY STRETCH OF THE I MAG IN - ATION , BE INTERPRATED AS MILITARY ACTIVITY . 5T IS IN NO f. WAY A VIOLATION OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL CEASE-FIRE DECISIONS NOR OF THE ARRANGEMENTS WITH THE UNITED NATIONS TRUCE SUPERV- - IS I ON ORGANIZATION . (B) CONTRARY TO THE UNITED NATIONS TRUCE SUPEVSSION ORGANI - ZATION ARRANGEMENTS , WHICH SPEIFIEO THAT SUCK MEASURES SHOULD NOT GIVE POLITICAL OR OTHER GAIN TO ONE PARTY AT THE OTHER PARTYS EXPENSE , ISRAEL IS NOW TRYING TO MISINTERPRET THOSE ARRANGEMENTS IN ORDER TO DERIVE POLITICAL ADVANTAGE THROUGH ITS DEMAND FOR PRIOR AGREEMENT WITH THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC ON THE RELEASE OF THOSE SHIPS. 10/ ON 30TH DECEMBER , 1967 THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC GOVERNEMENT INFORMED AMBASSADOR GUNNAR JARRING , THE UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY GENERALS REPRESENTATIVE THAT THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC WOULD ADVISE GENERAL ODD BULL OF THE STEPS TO BE TAKEN WITH REGARD TO RELEASING THE TRAPPED SHIPS BEFORE ACTUALLY UNDERTAKING ANY MEASURES BUT THAT THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC DID NOT ASK FOR ISRAELS CONSENT . ENCLOSURES

1/ LETTER DATED 27TH JULY , 1967 TO GENERAL ODD BULL FROM AMBASSADOR SALAH GOHAR . 2/ LETTER DATED 31ST JULY 1967 TO GENERAL ODD BULL FROM AMBASSADOR SALAH GOHAR. 3/ LETTR DATED 27TH JULY,1967 TO AMBASSADOR SALAH GOHAR FROM GENERAL ODD BULL. V LETTER DATED 28TH JULY 1967 TO ABASSADOR SALAH GOHAR FROM GENERAL ODD BULL. 5/ LETTER DATED 1ST AUGUST, 1967 TO AMBASSADOR SALAH GOHAR FROM GENERAL ODD BULL. 6/ LETTER DATED 24TH AUGUST,1967 TO GENERAL ODD BULL FROM AMBASSADOR SALAH GOHAR, _ 7/ LETTER DATED 2ND JANUARY 1968 TO AMBASSADOR SALAH ' GOHAR FROM LT. COL. MYO. AUNG. 8/ LETTER DATED 4TH JANUARY, 1968 TO GENERAL ODD BULL FROM AMBASSADOR SALAH GOHAR. MINISTER .