Premier Amitore Fanfani, reporting at a press conference on his recent visit to Cairo, declared today that when he was invited by the Israel Government to visit Israel, it was agreed that there would be no immediate geographical, temporal or political relationship with the trip I made to Cairo.” He added that “the situation has not changed.” A date for his visit to Israel “will be established at a convenient time,” he declared.
The Premier received the ambassador of the United States, Britain, Turkey, West Germany and Israel to inform them of the results of his Cairo visit. Asked about an announced visit to Lebanon, the Premier said he had informed the Lebanese Government that “I cannot go to Beirut without having first accepted Israel’s invitation which was addressed to me before that of Lebanon.”
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