The World - News from March 14, 1985
Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir asked Canada to participate in the multinational peacekeeping force in the Sinai Peninsula. Shamir, beginning a six-day visit to Canada, made the request in a meeting with External Affairs Minister Joe Clark in Ottawa. Australia is due to withdraw its 100-person contingent from the 10-nation Sinai peacekeeping force in 1986, and Shamir cited Canada’s experience in similar peace forces in Cyprus and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Israel, which captured the Sinai from Egypt in 1967, returned it in 1982.
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