Foreign Minister Golda Meir last night expressed regret and astonishment at the failure of the West German Government to submit to the Bundestag, the lower house of Parliament, a bill aimed at barring German scientists from working in arms development in other countries. The Bonn Government had been under pressure to introduce such a bill since the activities of German scientists working on Egyptian unconventional arms projects came to light last year.
Replying in the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, to a question by Herut Deputy Chaim Landau, Mrs. Meir said the Israeli Government has done everything necessary under the circumstances but she expressed regret and astonishment that the Bonn Government has not yet succeeded in passing legislation prohibiting West German citizens from working in arms development in countries aimed at attacking other countries.
The Knesset accepted Mrs. Meir’s proposal not to debate the issue of the German scientists working in Egypt and agreed to pass the matter on to the Foreign Affairs Committee. Asserting that the Bonn Government could have passed such a law if it had wanted to do so, Mrs. Meir told the Knesset that the Israel Government would judge such legislation by its actual results if the law were passed.
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