Asher Ben-Nathan, Israel’s Ambassador to West Germany, had his first meeting today with President Heinrich Lubke. The President had been on leave when the envoy arrived in Bonn earlier this year and the ambassador presented his credentials to the Presidential Assistant, the President of the Upper House of Parliament.
Meanwhile, the much-postponed first meeting between the Israeli envoy and Chancellor Ludwig Erhard was rescheduled today for next week. Previously, Mr. Ben-Nathan had expected to meet the Chancellor this week. Previous postponements were attributed to the election campaign which ended September 18 with Chancellor Erhard’s Christian Democratic Union remaining the dominant party in the Federal Republic. The latest postponement was attributed to the fact that there were six other Ambassadors ahead of the Israeli envoy waiting to be received by the Chancellor.
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