Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany will visit Israel January 23-27, 1984, it was announced here today. He was to have come late last summer but postponed his trip because of the resignation of Premier Menachem Begin.
Kohl will be meeting with Premier Yitzhak Shamir. Sources here said the issue likely to dominate their discussion will be the Bonn government’s plans to sell large amounts of advanced weaponry to Saudi Arabia.
Earlier this week, Deputy Foreign Minister Yehuda Ben-Meir, acting on Shamir’s instructions, summoned the German Ambassador, Niels Hansen, to deliver a stiff complaint from Israel on the matter.
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