Egypt will move tomorrow to give the Western Powers a graceful way out of the dilemma created for them by Israel’s insistence that the United Nations act to end Egypt’s flouting of international law and a Security Council directive by maintenance of a blockade against Israel bound shipping in the Suez Canal and Gulf of Aqaba.
When the Council meets tomorrow to resume consideration of the Israeli complaint, Egyptian delegate Mahmoud Azmi is scheduled to make a speech — which is reported to run to 27 pages of typescript. It is expected to be conciliatory in tone and to offer a number of “concessions” each of which would be conditional on Israel’s fulfilling certain specified conditions.
In view of this speech, a draft resolution by New Zealand’s Leslie Knox Munro after consultations with the Big Three and other Security Council members will not be presented to tomorrow’s meeting as originally expected.
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