French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville said today in an interview with the Paris newspaper, France Soir, that the U.N. Security Council’s Middle East resolution of Nov. 22 “will solve nothing, but is a first step.” He added that the Middle East problem must be settled on a political level with the aid of the great powers, but so far the powers have been unable to reach a common agreement.
Mr. Couve de Murville said he thought it was “curious” that people accused France of abandoning her neutrality in the Middle East just because, prior to the Six-Day War last June, France declared that she could not side with anyone who opened military operations.
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