President Francois Mitterrand today promised to back Israel’s demands for European Economic Community (EEC) provisions which would safeguard its agricultural exports to the 10 member-states after Spain and Portugal join it next year. Israeli Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir said he was satisfied and optimistic that some workable arrangement will be found.
Shamir, who arrived yesterday in Paris on the first leg of a six-day trip which will also take him to West Germany and Holland, is to meet later this week with the West German Chancellor and the Dutch Premier. He conferred in Paris with Foreign Minister Roland Dumas, Deputy Foreign Minister in charge of European Affairs Catherine Lalumiere, and opposition leader Jacques Chirac.
Shamir said after his meeting with Mitterrand that the President did not try to press Israel into talks with Jordan and that he said “it is up to Israel and the Arab nations to decide how to proceed and to arrange their own peace process.”
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