Israel must permit the stationing of United Nations Emergency Force units on its soil, Lester B. Pearson, Canada’s Minister for External Affairs, told a Jewish National Fund dinner here last night in honor of Leon D. Crestohl, Jewish member of the Canadian Parliament.
The Government of Israel, Mr. Pearson said, “should, in my view, admit in principle the right of the UNEF to be deployed on its side of the demarcation line in accordance with arrangements to be negotiated with it by the UNEF. I hope it will agree to this.”
The Minister further stated that Canada cannot accept the proposition that either Egypt or Israel can tell UNEF where it should go in the disputed territory or when it should withdraw. If the decision on such matters were made by any authority other than UNEF, he asserted, “then this country could surely not continue to participate in it.
Mr. Pearson repudiated the suggestion that Canada had urged Israel to withdraw from the Gaza Strip on the “somewhat vague generalization” which the Americans put forward in urging evacuation.
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