Despite the Soviet veto in the UN Security Council of the New Zealand resolution on ending the Egyptian blockade in the Suez Canal, the Israel Government will continue to fight by all legal means for its rights to freedom of shipping, a Foreign Office spokesman said today.
He declared that one of the legal supports on which Israel will rely is the Security Council resolution of Sept. 1, 1951, which enjoined Egypt against continuing the anti-Israel blockade.
The spokesman rejected Andrei Vishinsky’s explanation yesterday for his veto, that direct negotiations between the two parties was preferable. This explanation, he continued, “can only appear justified to those ignorant of the facts.” In the circumstances Egypt’s “stubborn refusal” to agree to any kind of a settlement makes the Soviet position unreal.
“It can hardly be assumed that Egypt’s attitude was unknown to the Soviet Union when it chose such an explanation for its veto,” the Israeli spokesman declared.
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