The release of the crew of the Bat Galim by Egypt will not affect the plans for a meeting of the United Nations Security Council tomorrow, it was learned here today. Furthermore, plans for the meeting will not be altered by Egypt’s notification that it is willing to turn the seized Israel freighter over to any agency authorized by Israel to take the ship any place except through the Suez Canal.
According to Israel sources here, Israel needs no agency except its own sailors and is ready to take the ship whenever “its illegal detention is terminated” through the Suez Canal to its original destination, Haifa.
The Council will meet, as scheduled, tomorrow afternoon, with only one point on the agenda: Israel’s insistence that Egypt live up to previous United Nations resolutions for freedom of passage through the Suez Canal for shipping from and to all countries. Leslie Knox Munro, of New Zealand, is president of the Security Council this month.
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