A rare high level diplomatic contact between Israel and the People’s Republic of China will take place here Wednesday when Foreign Minister Shimon Peres of Israel meets with the Chinese Foreign Minister Wu Xuegian. China, one of the five permanent members of the Security Council, is expected to play a major role in an international conference for Middle East peace, should it occur.
Peres is scheduled to meet Thursday with Secretary of State George Shultz. It will be their second meeting since Peres arrived in the U.S. 10 days ago and the first since the State Department announced that Shultz will visit Israel and possibly Egypt and Jordan next month.
Peres will also meet Thursday with Egyptian Foreign Minister Abdel Esmat Meguid. Diplomats here say an international peace conference will be high on the agenda at all of these meetings.
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