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Ralph Bunche

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The United Nations Acting Mediator on Palestine who, by cablegram dated 23 March 1949, transmitted the Lebanese-Israeli General Armistice Agreement to the Secretary-General for the President of the Security Council (Lebanese-Israeli General Armistice Agreement, PDF p.3).

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  • In the cablegram Bunche informs the Security Council that a general armistice agreement, in pursuance of the Council’s resolution of 16 November 1948, was signed by the delegations of Israel and Lebanon at Ras En Naqoura on 23 March 1949, and that the text of the agreement follows (PDF p.3).

  • One of the Agreement’s five copies is retained for the Acting Mediator on Palestine (Article VIII, paragraph 5, PDF p.8), and the Agreement was done in the presence of the Personal Deputy of the United Nations Acting Mediator on Palestine (signature block, PDF p.8).

  • By cablegram dated 3 April 1949 Bunche likewise transmitted the Jordanian-Israeli General Armistice Agreement to the Secretary-General for the President of the Security Council, informing the Council that the agreement between the Hashemite Jordan Kingdom and Israel had been signed that evening, 3 April 1949, at Rhodes (Jordanian-Israeli General Armistice Agreement, PDF p.3). That Agreement was done in the presence of the Acting Mediator on Palestine, one of its five copies goes to him, and Iraq’s Foreign Minister had communicated Iraq’s authorization for the Jordanian delegation to the Acting Mediator on 20 March 1949 (Article VI, paragraph 1, and Article XII, paragraph 5, PDF p.6, p.10).

  • By communication dated 20 July 1949 Bunche likewise transmitted the Syrian-Israeli General Armistice Agreement to the Acting Secretary-General for the President of the Security Council, informing the Council that the agreement between Israel and Syria had been signed at Hill 232, near Mahanayim, on 20 July 1949 (Syrian-Israeli General Armistice Agreement, PDF p.3). That Agreement was done in the presence of the Personal Deputy of the Acting Mediator on Palestine, and one of its five copies goes to the Acting Mediator (Article VIII, paragraph 5, and signature block, PDF p.9).

Lebanese-Israeli General Armistice Agreement, Lebanese-Israeli General Armistice Agreement (Ras En Naqoura, 1949), Jordanian-Israeli General Armistice Agreement, UN Security Council, Syrian-Israeli General Armistice Agreement

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