France made a dutiful effort yesterday to improve her relations with Israel as Ambassador Francis Hure conferred here with Premier Golda Meir. The meeting was described as a return gesture for the recent visit in Paris between Israeli envoy Asher Ben-Nathan and President Georges Pompidou. At the Knesset yesterday the chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Haim Zadok, told a 22-man delegation of French legislators, generals and former Cabinet members that he hoped for a renewal of Franco-Israeli amity. Andre Monteil, chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee of the French Senate, promised Zakok that Israel’s friends in France would continue to strive for a change in French policy. An immediate issue between France and Israel concerns a statement on Mideast policy adopted this week by the European Common Market members which calls for Israel’s return to its pre-June 1967 borders and the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes, France is member of the ECM.
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