Israel did not ask Britain to guarantee her borders with the Arab states, Moshe Leshem, spokesman for the Israel Foreign Ministry, declared here today. He stressed that the Israel Government would welcome “some kind of general recognition of the existing frontiers by any country.”
Mr. Leshem’s statement came in comment on a statement in the British Parliament by Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd rejecting Labor demands for a British guarantee of Israel’s borders. The Israeli spokesman added that “Mr. Lloyd’s statement contained nothing new. ” The least new portion of the statement was reiteration of the espousal of the Eden Guildhall plan for settling the Middle East conflict through Israeli territorial concessions to the Arabs.
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