Editorial Note
On February 27, the Legation in Jordan conveyed a report to the Department that Prime Minister Samir Rifa’i and Defense Minister Fawzi al-Mulqi, representing Jordan, met on February 24 with Ruben Shiloah of the Israeli Foreign Ministry and Brigadier General Moshe Dayan of the Defense Army of Israel. As a result of the meeting, both sides initialed a document intended to serve as a basis for formal negotiations between the two countries. Among the points agreed upon were measures involving mutual nonaggression, observation of armistice boundary lines, establishment of technical committees, freedom of access to Holy Places, compensation for appropriated property, and government arbitration in disputed cases of property rights. A close translation of the document was transmitted to the Department in telegram 33 from Amman, February 27, 1950, not printed (684A.85/2–2750).