American Ambassador Walworth Barbour met today with Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel’s Foreign Minister, in what was reliably reported to be a resumption of talks on the problem of the Arab refugees. The meeting was officially reported to have dealt with a review of regional problems.
The talks were in line with a previously reported United States initiative, dating back to the previous United Nations General Assembly, to seek an end to the deadlock on the issue. The resumption of the talks in Israel were delayed by the Prime Minister’s recent vacation. The issue was taken up last December at a meeting between President Kennedy and Mrs. Meir in Washington.
Israel’s stand in the parleys with the United States were worked out last January at a high-level meeting of the Prime Minister, Mrs. Meir and Avraham Harman, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, and Ambassador Michael Comay, head of Israel’s delegation to the United Nations. Following that meeting, the Prime Minister discussed Israel’s position on the issue with Mr. Barbour last January.
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