The Foreign Ministry today indicated that no official or unofficial discussions on Middle East defense were held in Israel with Admiral Mountbatten, British Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, during his recent visit here.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman made this clear in connection with an editorial in the London Times yesterday stating that Israel’s attitude towards the extension of the Mediterranean defense pact to the shores of Bosphorus was informally discussed in Tel Aviv with Lord Mountbatten.
The spokesman revealed that diplomatic representatives of Britain, France, Italy, Australia and Turkey visited Israel’s Foreign Ministry and presented suggestions similar to the one made by the United States that Israel should not transfer its Foreign Ministry from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. No reply has been made to these suggestions, the spokesman said.
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