Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden told Commons today that United Nations is the proper forum for discussing the Middle East arms embargo and for resolution of the Israel-Arab conflict. He made his statement in reply to a query from Laborite W. N. Warbey who asked whether the Prime Minister was pursuing the suggestion made last week by Nikita Khrushchey, Soviet Communist Party chief, that there should be a collective agreement to embargo arms to the Middle East.
This question, Sir Anthony said, was obviously very complex and concerned not only Britain but a great many other powers. In a reference to the joint Anglo-Soviet communique about the Middle East and other matters, he said that what had been agreed by the British and Soviet Governments was that the UN should be supported in its efforts to resolve the Arab-Israel conflict.
Sir Anthony said that if all parties concerned got together on the problem “we might have a chance of getting a truce which is a reality and then negotiations in which we have both undertaken to assist. I think, “he continued, “that that is the first step. As regards to what would be done about the arms, that’s a matter also which can well be discussed in the same forum.”
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