United States Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger arrived in Israel today, at the start of a 36-hour visit.
He came to Israel from talks with government leaders in Egypt, and was greeted at the airport by Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin and senior Defense Ministry and army officers.
Weinberger is to hold talks with Rabin at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv tomorrow and later to meet Premier Shimon Peres in Jerusalem. The U.S. official will also visit the American-built Ramon Air Force base in the northern Negev.
In welcoming Weinberger, Rabin said his visit illustrated the deepening of friendly relations between the two defense systems. Weinberger said his talks, especially those with Peres, would a continuation of conversations started in Washington last week.
Israeli officials say the main thrust of the talks here would be on economic and technical cooperation between Israel and the U.S. in the defense fields. They said that the Israeli side does not plan to raise the matter of Lebanon and the IDF presence and withdrawal there, though they would answer any points raised by Weinberger.
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