Shevardnadze Rebuffs Israel
Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze said today he had no plans to accept an open invitation to visit Israel from Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir.
“The conditions are not yet ripe for such a visit,” Shevardnadze told a Moscow news conference after two days of discussions with Secretary of State George P. Shultz in which the Middle East was a major topic. “The prime minister and the foreign minister of Israel know perfectly well what conditions are necessary for such a visit to take place,” Shevardnadze declared.
On April 15, an Israeli spokesman told reporters in Tel Aviv that Shamir would invite Shevardnadze if he were sure the Soviet foreign minister would accept the invitation.
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