The possible international implications of Israel’s Jordan River irrigation project was understood to have been the subject discussed at an hour-long meeting this weekend between Walter Eytan. Israel’s Ambassador to France, and Jean Souto, director of the French Foreign Ministry’s African and Middle Eastern Division.
France, in recent weeks, has repeatedly asserted that Israel’s water projects were “a natural and legitimate” undertaking which should not cause any international complications. Maurice Couve de Murville, the French Foreign Minister, was understood to have spoken in this vein during two meetings earlier this month with Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel’s Foreign Minister.
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