A Foreign Ministry spokesman said today that the French Renault auto making firm, which ended operations in Israel in 1959 under Arab boycott pressure, had asked for renewal of trade relations with Israel and that the request had been approved.
The request was transmitted to the Israel Government through Raymond Schmittlein, president of the French National Assembly. The 1959 break stopped assembly of Renault autos in the Kaiser-Illin plant in Haifa. Subsequently the French auto firm tried to set up an assembly plant in Egypt but the effort was a failure.
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