An official government announcement today said that Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher will make an official visit to Israel on June 2. Hildegard Haam-Bruecher, Vice Minister in the Foreign Ministry, will come to Israel May 9th to prepare Genscher’s visit.
The announcement came a few days after the German press reported that Genscher was postponing a visit to Israel till after the NATO summit in Bonn on June 10, and that Israel was showing displeasure over this development. Both German and Israeli officials promptly denied the reports.
It is understood here that Bonn decided to arrange the visit earlier than planned in order to head off a possible misunderstanding with Jerusalem. By the same taken, Bonn firmly and promptly denied reports in the German press that Chancellor Helmut Schmidt said he would not come to Israel as long as Premier Menachem Begin was in office.
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