ABSTRACT
Following the third Arab-Israeli war in twenty years, there was an upsurge of hope that a lasting peace could be achieved. The major Powers – the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France – should cooperate to assist the Secretary-General’s representative, Ambassador Jarring, in working out a settlement in accordance with the Resolution of the Security Council of the United Nations of November 1967. A peace agreement between the parties must be based on clear and stated intentions and a willingness to bring about basic changes in the attitudes and conditions which are characteristic of the Middle East today. The boundaries from which the 1967 war began were established in the 1949 Armistice Agreements and have defined the areas of national jurisdiction in the Middle East for 20 years. Those boundaries were armistice lines, not final political borders. The rights, claims and positions of the parties in an ultimate peaceful settlement were reserved by the Armistice Agreements.
