Summary
The state named as a Party, in that word order, in the Jordanian-Israeli General Armistice Agreement signed at Rhodes on 3 April 1949: its forces were to replace the Iraqi forces in the sector they held in Palestine, it accepted responsibility for all Iraqi forces in Palestine, and its signatories were Colonel Ahmed Sudki El-Jundi and Lieutenant-Colonel Mohamed Maayte (Jordanian-Israeli General Armistice Agreement, PDF p.3, p.6, p.8, p.10).
Details
- The Kingdom’s delegation was authorized by the Government of Iraq, in its Foreign Minister’s message of 20 March 1949 to the Acting Mediator, to negotiate for the Iraqi forces, which were to be withdrawn and replaced by the Kingdom’s forces in their sector (Article VI, paragraph 1, PDF p.6).
- The Armistice Demarcation Line in the Hebron-Dead Sea sector deviates substantially from the existing military lines in favour of the Kingdom’s forces, designated to offset the modifications of the existing military lines in the Iraqi sector (Article VI, paragraph 4, PDF p.6).
- Israel agrees to pay the Kingdom’s Government the cost of constructing twenty kilometres of first-class new road, in compensation for the road acquired between Tulkarm and Qalqiliya (Article VI, paragraph 5, PDF p.6).
Related pages
Jordanian-Israeli General Armistice Agreement, Israel–Jordan Armistice Agreement (Rhodes, 1949), Transjordan, Iraq, The Triangle