Israel Urges Middle East Disarmament
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NEW YORK. October 10. Israel's Foreign Minister (Mrs Golds Meir) today proposed the complete disarmament of Israel and the Arab States under mutual inspection and control. “Neither Israel nor its neighcan afford an arms race.” w*®he said in the United Nations jjßeneral Assembly. “The needs of ».ihc men. women and children of _**Bll our countries cry out against Sft.” Mrs Meir said that the Israeli Xprime Minister (Mr David Benrion) was prepared for a meet- 1 Zing with Arab leaders, without; ewiy preconditions, immediately. JJJlere or at any other place pro«Mposed to him. Mis Meir said that one of the awplanks in the Israeli Governprogramme, as approved by was ‘‘complete disof Israel and the Arab under mutual inspection JJJtad control. « “We are not impressed by lofty on world disarmament tSand peace," she said, “by leaders -*- who do not practise at home what Stbey preach abroad. »-* “Ours is a troubled area, and iindArriAVPlnnpd nnp
underdeveloped one. Neither
Israel nor its neighbours can afford an arms race.”
Israel had listened attentively to the principles of peace, negotiations. and preservation of the United Nations Charter, “as professed from this rostrum by the President of the United Arab Republic,” Mrs Meir said. “We accept these praiseworthy principles,” she added. "And so I ask from here the President (Nasser) of the U.A.R. —is he prepared to do as he advised President Eisenhower and Chairman Khrushchev to do—namely, to meet and nego>tiiate? “Is he prepared to meet Mr Ben-Gurion . . . for negotiations of peace or at least an agreement on non-aggression? And we put the same question to the King of Jordan, the Prime Minister of the Lebanon, and all the other Arab leaders.” Woolclassers.— Certificates for woolclassing were awarded to M. A. Collins and E. R. Hadfield yesterday by the board of governors of Canterbury Agricultural College.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29333, 12 October 1960, Page 10
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