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This is a Central Intelligence Agency release of Foreign Broadcast Information Service coverage of the Middle East peace talks from December 1977. It collects British, Israeli and Soviet press and radio items on President as-Sadat's initiative and the planned Cairo conference. It also covers Prime Minister Begin's visit to London, Secretary of State Vance's regional tour and the Knesset debate on the peace plan. It contains no material on unidentified aerial phenomena.
" ' &Gy) NEH E r1 PPROVED FOR RE EASE CIA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS DIVISION AR 70-14 13NOV201 C *9 12/T7* *05115* OTTUZYUW RUDUMKA9156 3422243-UUUU 2 2t43:27Z -RlTLAAA, ZNR UUUU 22:431272 U ZYN q 0O2240Z DEC 77 FM FeIS LONuON UK TO RlAr)AHA/EUYTH STRAT W/DCI RUDOMLA/FBIS CAVERSHAM/OW . RUEEFGA/VOA WASH DC RUEHEY/AMEMB CAIRO EG RUFLSJA/PBIS ATHENS GR RUQMDM/AMEMB DAMASCUS SY RUQMFV/FBIS TEL AVIV IS RUQMFV/AMEMB TEL AVIV IS RUQMIF/AMEM3 AMMAN JDl RUQMJR/AMCONGEN JERUSALEM RUTLAAA/FBIS WASH DC FBLD BT EZli UNCLAS 80J00 DW NC EZ2SC B~rN DISCUSSES POSSLE GENEVA CONFERENCE WITHOUT SOVIET %NION Lpu 2240Y JERU;SALEM INTERNATIONAL SERVICE IN ENGLISH 2000 GMT 8 DEC -T7 (D((REPORTAGE BY UNNAMED ANNOUNCER ON STATEMENT BY ISRAELI PRITEMINISTER ME.NAHEM BEGIN, DATE AND VENUE OF WHICH UNSPECIFIEC PASSAGE:S WITHIN QUDTATION MARKS ARE RECORDED EXCERPTS -]F BEI:N STATEMENT)) JER3USALEM INTEIRNATIUrNAL SERVICE IN ENGLISH 2000. GMT 8 DEG 77 LD((TEXT)) PRIME MINISTER MENAHEM BEGIN HAS COMMENTED ON EGYPTIAN STATEMENTS THAT ISRAELIS DELEGATION TO THE CaiRO 'TALKS IS NOT AT A SUFFfjICINTLY HIGH LEVEL, THIS IS WHAT THE PRIME MINISTER HAD TL SAY "THE INVITATIO1N SENT T0 OUR FOREIGN MINISTER MOSHE pAYAN BY MR LTRUS GHALI WAS TO THE EFFECT THAT HIE, QUR FOREIGN MINISTER, SHOULD SEND A REPRESENTATIVE, SO IT IS CLEAR THAT HE DIP NOT INVITE WIM HIMSELF, THERFFUE, wE NOMINATED TWO REPRESENTATIVES bHICHa RANK.ING OFFICIALS FIF OUR GOVERNMENT-NAMELY, THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF tH )RIME MINISTERtS OFFICE AND MR, MEIR ROSEN, THE ADVISER 3N JUDICIAL PRIDBCEMS TU THE FOREIGN MINISTRY, AND IF THERE IS a SUCH A REWUIRErMENT WE SHALL CONSIDER IT ANO, IF IT IS NECESSARY ro UPGRADE OUR DELEGATION, WE SHALL DO So GLADLY," DESPITE THE ANTI-SOVIkT MOVES IN EGYPT, BEGIN BEL IEVJES ~T:HE GENEVA CONFERENCE CUULD BE RECONVENED WITH TE SOVIET UNION, WHO *STItGL IS CO-CHAIRiMAN. BUT HE ApED; "IF EGYPT SHOULD SUGGEST TO US TO HDLD A GENEVA CONFERENCE MITHOUT THE SOVIET UNION' WE SHALL NUT QBJECT," AND BEGIN BEGAN TU SAY OF THE SOVIET UNIQN: "WaE SEF NloW THAT THE SOVIET UNION IS UN THE SIDE OF THE WIlDEST MEN IN THE MIDDLE EAST, FOR INSTANCE, qN THE SIDE OF LIBYA ((WORUS INDISTINCTI) ON THE SIDE OF IARAFAT, ON THE SIDE OF IHABASH, THE MURPEROUS DOCTORj HE IS A DOCTOR OF MEOICINE; BUT HE IS (ILLING CHILDREN; AND WHAT ROLE CAN I SEE OF THE SOVIET uNICN JNTIL IT CHANGES ITS MIND? IT JUST CHOSE THE WRONG SIDE. PHE SI1E OF NEGAVIONI THE SIDE OF PREJUDICE, THE SIDE OF HATRED JF :NON NEGOTIATIONS, NO PEACE, NO RECOGNITION OF IN$RAEsL LET PHEM RECONSIDER THE PROBlEM; THEY SHOULD RECONSIDER," .082000 hQALLAn/E 38/225 1 DEC 3T 9156 VNNN
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