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On 20 May 1948, the Security Council appointed Count Folke Bernadotte, President of the Swedish Red Cross, UN mediator for Palestine. The GA empowered the mediator to cooperate with the Truce Commission (appointed in April that year) in observing the truce and in endeavouring to achieve a solution to the conflict.1
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© 1993 Paul Turner and Glyn N. Volans
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Pappé, I. (1993). Britain, Bernadotte and the Greater Transjordan. In: Britain and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-51. St Antony’s/Macmillan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19326-4_3
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