West Germany made it clear today that it does not share French President Charles de Gaulle’s view that Israel is an aggressor nation bent on expansion, an accusation made by de Gaulle at his Paris press conference Monday. A Government spokesman indicated this in reply to questions at a press conference here.
The spokesman also denied reports that Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger, on his trip to India, had asked the New Delhi Government to mediate a resumption of diplomatic relations between West Germany and the Arab states. He said that the situation actually was the reverse, and that the Indian Government had offered to mediate and to explain the German viewpoint to the Arab countries. The Arabs severed relations with Bonn, when West Germany exchanged ambassadors with Israel in 1965.
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