Secretary of State Alexander Haig postponed his scheduled visit to Israel today because of the tense situation in Poland where the government imposed martial law in a new confrontation with the Solidarity trade union movement.
Haig, who attended a North Atlantic Council meeting here, did not say immediately when he would go to Israel for what was scheduled to be a four-hour stopover enroute to Turkey, Pakistan and India. He told reporters yesterday, however, that U.S.-Israel relations remain strong after having weathered a series of strains during the past six months.
He attributed the healed relations with Israel to the strategic cooperation agreement signed at the beginning of this month and the agreement that will permit Western European countries to participate in the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) in Sinai. Haig said yesterday that when he meets with Premier Menachem Begin and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir he would press for faster progress in the Israeli-Egyptian autonomy talks.
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