Japan has formally asked Israel to support a 19-nation proposal before the United Nations General Assembly calling for a two-China solution to the problem of that nation’s representation in the world organization, it was disclosed today. Ambassador Elqi Tokura called on the Foreign Ministry’s director general Gideon Rafael to explain the proposal which would seat Peking’s representative in both the General Assembly and the Security Council while retaining the Chinese Nationalists representation from Taiwan in the General Assembly. In a taped interview yesterday on the Israel Radio, Foreign Minister Abba Eban said Israel would support the seating of Peking at the UN but has not decided how to vote on the Taiwan issue because of the complex procedural situation. He recalled that as early as 1950 Israel had recognized Peking as the government of China.
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