Foreign Ministry officials here denied today reports received from abroad hinting that Israel had asked foreign governments to mediate Israel’s dispute with Germany over Bonn’s announcement it had halted arms shipments here, due to Pressures by Egypt. Another report stated that Norway’s Prime Minister Otto Krag, who visited Israel recently, had sent a letter to the West German Government, proposing mediation with Israel.
Israel is expected to take no further initiative in the entire matter until Walter Ulbricht, Communist East Germany’s chief of state, visits Cairo, beginning next Wednesday.
Officials said today that nothing is known officially about a reported West German plan to send a special emissary here to try to iron out the current differences between the two governments. Thus far, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol has not yet replied to a letter he received from West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, expressing a desire to reach an understanding with Israel.
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