An Israeli Cabinet Minister said today that Israel intends to retain permanently Sharm el-Sheikh and a strip of territory linking it with the Israeli port of Eilat. Shimon Peres, Minister-Without-Portfolio and a leader of the Rafi faction within the Israel Labor Party, told road workers at Abu Rodes in the Sinai that there are no differences of opinion over the fate of Sharm el-Sheikh and that the government should see to it that the facts are established accordingly. Mr. Peres was at Abu Rodes to inspect work on a new 220-kilometer road connecting Eilat with Sharm el-Sheikh, a former Egyptian strong point captured by Israeli forces during the Six-Day War. It commands the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba and access to Eilat.
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