Foreign Secretary Sir Anthony Eden discussed the Arab-Israel conflict during his interview with Egyptian Premier Col. Gamel Abdel Nasser in Cairo last month, Anthony Nutting, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, revealed in Commons today.
He made this statement in reply to a question by John Eden, Conservative MP, who asked whether the Foreign Secretary had discussed the matter with Col. Nasser. Mr. Eden further queried whether there was any definite proposal for altering the present demarcation lines in Palestine, which he characterized as “obviously arbitrary and unpractical.” Mr. Nutting asserted that the problems of the demarcation lines “come well within our scrutiny.”
Barnett Janner, Laborite, asked whether the government would seek an opportunity to get both sides together and whether it would attempt to do something about reducing tension along Israel’s borders and about getting Egypt to cease its threats against Israel. Mr. Nutting replied that “any possibilities of the two sides getting together are not exactly assisted by incidents of the type which recently took place at Gaza.”
In an address over the BBC radio, reporting on the broad aspects of his recent trip to the Far East and the Middle East, Sir Anthony said that a solution of the Arab-Israel dispute was the key to stability in the Middle East. He added, however, that it was very difficult to find the best solution.
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