United Nations Undersecretary Ralph Bunche conferred for an hour today with Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel Foreign Minister, after parrying reporters’ questions about his visit to Cairo.
He declined to say whether he had any success in Cairo in obtaining release of Israel cargoes confiscated recently by United Arab Republic authorities from foreign ships passing through the Suez Canal. He also was uncommittal on questions as to whether he had obtained guarantees that there would not be any further UAR interference with such Israel shipping.
The UN official remarked that he had not come to the Middle East for any specific negotiations but mainly to inspect UN Emergency Force troops, and said that at meetings with officials he had been “mostly listening.”
Dr. Bunche, who arrived in Israel from Cairo yesterday, paid a courtesy call on President Isaac Ben Zvi after his talk with Mrs. Meir and later was the luncheon guest of Mrs. Meir. He was to visit Amman later today for talks with Jordan Government officials and then return to Israel for a meeting Friday with Prime Minister Tavid Ben Gurion.
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