Gen. Zvi Tsur, Israel’s Deputy Minister of Defense, met with France’s Defense Minister Pierre Messmer here today in talks which are believed to have centered around the French Government’s continued embargo on 50 Mirage jet planes bought and partially paid for by Israel before last June’s Middle East War. Gen. Tsur was accompanied by Gen. Mordechai Hod, Chief of Israel’s Air Force. Gen. Tsur said afterwards that there was no change in the French position.
Informed quarters here said that Gen. Tsur did not meet with a direct refusal to lift the embargo but was given to understand that deliveries of the planes would have to wait until some substantive progress had been made toward a Middle East settlement.
Gen. Tsur and Gen. Hod were luncheon guests of the Belgian Ministers of Defense and Economy in Brussels yesterday.
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