Foreign Minister Abba S. Eban left Israel today for New York where he will head the Israeli delegation to the 23rd United Nations General Assembly. Before his departure, he said he would place before the General Assembly Israel’s plan for peace and development in the Middle East. The Israeli diplomat stressed that Israel was seeking a permanent peace and not a political arrangement as suggested by Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad of Egypt. Mr. Eban will make stops in Rome, Paris and London where, he said, he would explain the problems involved in a “political arrangement.”
(The JTA reported from Paris that Mr. Eban would see Foreign Minister Michael Debre of France there on Thursday and would press for release by the French of the 50 Mirage supersonic fighter planes Israel bought and paid for. The planes have been embargoed on orders of President de Gaulle. There are persistent reports in Paris, the JTA correspondent noted, that France intends to call in the General Assembly for “immediate implementation” of the Nov. 22, 1967 Security Council resolution in accordance with the Arab interpretation of that document. That would require Israel to withdraw from territory occupied in the Six-Day War without direct negotiations, a peace treaty or even guarantees of its own future security.)
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