Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Secretary of State George Shultz will meet privately for bilateral discussions here today after both receive honorary doctorates from Yeshiva University at a convocation late this afternoon at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Both men are scheduled to speak.
Shamir will also deliver a major address at Yeshiva University’s annual dinner tonight. The Israeli Foreign Minister, who is also Deputy Premier, arrived in New York Friday. Over the weekend he had meetings with Minister of Commerce and Industry Ariel Sharon and Minister of Science and Development Gideon Patt, both of whom are in New York.
Shamir is scheduled to fly to Panama tomorrow for a three-day official visit, the first ever to that Central American country by an Israeli Foreign Minister. He will follow that by a three-day official visit to Venezuela, returning to New York next Sunday, December 16. On Monday, December 17, Shamir will address the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish organizations in New York before returning to Israel.
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