Summary
The place at which the delegations of Israel and Lebanon signed the Lebanese-Israeli General Armistice Agreement on 23 March 1949, where its prisoner-of-war exchange was to take place within twenty-four hours of signing, and where the Lebanese Frontier Post housing one of the Lebanon-Israel Mixed Armistice Commission’s two headquarters stood (Lebanese-Israeli General Armistice Agreement, PDF p.3, p.6).
Details
- The Acting Mediator’s cablegram records the signing at Ras En Naqoura on 23 March 1949, and the Agreement’s closing line records it as done at Ras En Naqoura on the twenty-third of March nineteen forty-nine, in the presence of the Personal Deputy of the Acting Mediator and the United Nations Chief of Staff of the Truce Supervision Organization (PDF p.3, p.8).
- The exchange of prisoners of war, under United Nations supervision and control throughout, shall take place at Ras En Naqoura within twenty-four hours of the signing of the Agreement (Article VI, paragraph 1, PDF p.5-6).
- The Mixed Armistice Commission maintains its headquarters at the Frontier Post north of Metulla and at the Lebanese Frontier Post at En Naqoura, as the Agreement names the post in Article VII (Article VII, paragraph 2, PDF p.6).
Related pages
Lebanese-Israeli General Armistice Agreement, Lebanese-Israeli General Armistice Agreement (Ras En Naqoura, 1949), Lebanon