FRANCE: ISRAEL'S AMBASSADOR SUMMONED AS FRANCE ASKS FOR RECALL OF OFFICIALS IN GUNBOAT ROW.

Record ID: 399208

  • Title: FRANCE: ISRAEL'S AMBASSADOR SUMMONED AS FRANCE ASKS FOR RECALL OF OFFICIALS IN GUNBOAT ROW.
  • Date: 1st January 1970
  • Summary: 1. MV MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS 0.03 2. MV CAR ARRIVING AND EYTAN OUT INTO BUILDING 0.24 3. MV POLICE WARM ON FIRE BY GATE 0.29 4. MV EYTAN INSIDE, SURROUNDED BY PRESS 0.46 5. MV EYTAN DOWN STEPS AND INTO CAR AND AWAY (2 SHOTS) 1.15 Initials AB/V/CT/OS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 16th January 1970 13:00
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  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVA75P0WEE8YA4DIQZVWQ21I8SVT
  • Story Text: FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER MAURICE SCHUMANN TODAY SUMMONED ISRAELI AMBASSADOR WALTER EYTAN TO TELL HIM OF FRANCE'S DECISION TO DEMAND THE RECALL OF ISRAELI OFFICIALS INVOLVED IN THE CHERBOURG GUNBOATS AFFAIR.

    IT WAS MR. EYTAN'S FIRST MEETING WITH M. SCHUMANN OVER THE AFFAIR WHICH HAS LED THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT TO SUSPEND TWO GENERALS. MR. EYTAN REFUSED TO MAKE ANY COMMENT TO REPORTERS WHO SWARMED AROUND HIM AS HE ENTERED THE FOREIGN MINISTER.

    THE MEETING LASTED ABOUT TEN MINUTES. MR. EYTAN HAD NOTHING TO SAY AS HE LEFT THE BUILDING, EXCEPT THAT HE WOULD TELL HIS GOVERNMENT OF WHAT M. SCHUMANN HAD SAID.
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