Mr. Bahi Ladgham, former Tunisian Premier and Chairman of the Arab Peace Mission in Jordan, gave a press conference on Saturday (20 November) in Amman.

In an optimistic speech about the situation between the Jordanian army and the Fedayeen, Mr. Bahi said the Arab Mission's work would be over as soon as a basis had been achieved for the proper working of the Cairo agreements, and the Amman protocol.

Mr. Ladgham is at present a special Tunisian envoy as well as Chairman of the Arab Peace Mission. He is to become personal representative to President Bourguiba when he finishes his work in Jordan.

Mr. Ladgham gave no definite date for the ending of the Mission's work, but discounted the possibility of its becoming a permanent institution.

SYNOPSIS: Mr. Bahi Ladgham, Tunisian Chairman of the Arab Peace Mission in Jordan, answered questions on its future at a press Conference on Saturday in Amman.

Mr. Ladgham was asked by a reporter whether the Arab Mission would have to stay long in Jordan.

He replied that his would be a very bad thing, and would lead to their acquiring bad habits. He said he did not want to see the Arab Mission becoming a permanent Institution. If it did, he thought it might assume responsibilities they had not intended to assume, or seen any possibility of assuming. For this reason he thought he had to end the Mission as soon as possible, as soon as he had prepared the ground for the proper working of the Cairo agreements, and the Amman protocol. When that was done it would be time to say that the Mission was at an end.