Golda Meir by Meron Medzini

Author:Meron Medzini
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2020-09-06T00:00:00+00:00

J

JARRING, GUNNAR (1907–2002). A Swedish diplomat who sought to mediate between Israel and her neighbors following the 1967 Six Days War. A specialist in Central Asian culture and languages, he was a senior member of the Swedish foreign ministry and was appointed Sweden’s ambassador to the Soviet Union. Between 1956–1958 he served as Sweden’s ambassador to the United Nations. In November 1967 he was appointed by United Nations Secretary General U Thant as Special Representative of the Secretary General in the framework of Security Council Resolution 242 (22 November 1967) that called for the appointment of a special representative to promote an agreement and help achieve an agreed settlement by peaceful means. The 1 September 1967 Khartum Three Nos Arab League Resolution prevented him from inviting the parties to hold direct talks and he was forced to engage in shuttle diplomacy between the capitals of the Middle East and to present the parties with various memoranda and questions. His diplomacy failed to achieve any concrete results. The super powers then engaged in what became known as Four Power Talks (among the UN Ambassadors of the US, UK, France, and the USSR), and the two powers talks (between Henry Kissinger and Soviet Ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Dobrinin). His mission almost lapsed when Nasser announced the beginning of the War of Attrition in March 1969. The Second Rogers Plan of June 1970 called for a ninety days’ cease-fire and the resumption of the Jarring Mission. Israel and the Arabs accepted the plan but before Jarring could resume his mission, Israel announced that it was withholding its participation in them because Egypt violated the cease-fire agreement by moving missiles into the “stand still zone.” In December 1970, under American pressure, Israel agreed to return to the talks and Jarring held talks in Jerusalem with Prime Minister Meir and Foreign Minister Eban. On 8 February 1971 Jarring presented the parties with a detailed questionnaire asking them to reply under which conditions they would be willing to enter into peace negotiations. Egypt replied on 15 February in which it detailed its conditions for a peace agreement. They included total withdrawal of the IDF to the 4 June 1967 lines, resolution of the Palestine refugees’ problem according to UN Resolutions, UN forces along the borders, demilitarized zones on both sides of the border, navigation in the Suez Canal and the Straits of Tiran according to international law. Not mentioned were recognition, direct negotiations, normalization of ties, and full-fledged peace treaty (all this achieved in 1979 Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty). Israel accepted some of Egypt’s terms but refused to provide details of its territorial and security demands. It also accused Jarring of exceeding his mandate by presenting the parties with this questionnaire. The Jarring Mission lapsed. He retired from the Swedish foreign service in November 1973. See also ROGERS PLAN I, ROGERS PLAN II.

JERUSALEM. Capital of the State of Israel and the holiest city of the Jewish people. Jerusalem became the seat of the First Temple built at

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.