The European Economic Community will engage in a dialogue with Israel and the Arab countries on economic, industrial and energy cooperation, it was indicated today at the close of a two-day meeting of the nine Common Market Foreign Ministers here. West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher told reporters that the Israeli government has already been informed and the EEC is waiting for suggestions from Israel on what form cooperation with Europe could take. Foreign Office officials said that assistance for Israel would differ from that for the Arab nations because Israel is not a developing country and therefore the scale of cooperation would not be the same.
The EEC ministers gave the go-ahead yesterday for long-term European-Arab talks and promised to keep Israel informed of their progress. Genscher, who is president of the EEC Council of Ministers and Jean Sauvagnargues, of France, who succeeds him July 1, will tour the Middle East to sound out Arab feelings on the talks. Unofficial reports, meanwhile, indicated that the Arabs are prepared to lift the oil embargo imposed on The Netherlands last Oct. because of Holland’s alleged pro-Israel sympathies in the Yom Kippur War.
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