After two days of talks with leading French officials here, including two conferences with Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel’s Foreign Minister, left for Rome today to continue her consultations with leading members of the European Economic Community about Israel’s desire to establish a link with the European Common Market.
In Rome, Mrs. Meir will talk with Italy’s Foreign Minister Saragat and other leading political figures. Later, by the end of this month, she will visit The Netherlands, a third member of the six-nation EEC, where she will carry the talks forward with Foreign Minister Joseph Luns, at The Hague. On her round of talks with European leaders, Mrs. Meir is being accompanied by Moshe Alon, director of the economic department in the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
As she had stated yesterday, Mrs. Meir once again said today before she left Paris that she was “satisfied” with her conversations here. Israel’s Ambassador here, Walter Evlan, and other Embassy officials and the French Foreign Minister’s deputy chief of protocol, saw Mrs. Meir off at the airport. (At The Hague, today, Dutch Government officials confirmed the plans for a meeting there later this month between Dr. Luns and Mrs. Meir on Israel’s link with the European Economic Community.)
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