Israel’s request for a link to the European Common Market is expected to be taken up Tuesday by the European Economic Community’s Council of Ministers, at a meeting to be held at Brussels. This development became known here today as Levi Eshkol, Israel’s Finance Minister, came here to continue high-level discussions relating to Israel’s Economic Market status.
Mr. Eshkol, who met at Brussels yesterday with leaders of two of the Euromart member governments–Belgium’s Foreign Minister Paul Henri-Spaak and West Germany’s Minister for Economic Affairs, Professor Ludwig Erhard–will confer here tomorrow with the new French Finance Minister, Valery Giscard de Staing. Mr. Eshkol will seek the French Government’s support for Israel’s application to open negotiations with the six-nation E. E. C., so as to protect Israel’s vital economic interests.
After conferring here with senior French civil servants, and with French investors, the Israeli Finance Minister will go back to Brussels in time to attend Tuesday’s meeting of the EEC Council of Ministers. On Tuesday, Mr. Eshkol and Emile Najar, Israel’s Ambassador to Belgium, are scheduled to confer with the heads of the Common Market’s executive committee, West Germany’s Professor Hallstein and Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister.
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