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FBIS Coverage of the Middle East Peace Talks: 1977 December

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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.

  • p. 1 …inviting all concerned to a meeting in Cairo next Saturday. Now that the dust is settling…
  • p. 2 …is also expected to discuss the forthcoming Cairo peace talks, the Palestinian question and Israelis relations…
  • p. 3 …egion to send their representatives to the Cairo conference. The Americans are especially trying to convince…
  • p. 4 …There will be a Cairo conference in preparation for the Geneva conference. There will also be…
  • p. 5 …meetings the Egyptian president has called in Cairo should be welcomed. The prospect of direct negotiations…
  • p. 6 …secretary of state will want to check the chances of the success of the Cairo conference…
  • p. 7 …6 Dec 77 N 5 ISRAEL FUNCTION OF DELEGATION TO CAIRO TALKS DEFINED TA051643Y Tel Aviv…
  • p. 8 …6 Dec 77 N 6 ISRAEL Begin added: "The talks in Cairo are only the beginning…
  • p. 9 …The delegation will leave for Cairo in the next few days. Our correspondent also reports that…
  • p. 11 …RUEEFGA/VOA WASH DC RUEHEY/AMEMB CAIRO EG RUFLSJA/PBIS ATHENS GR RUQMDM/AMEMB DAMASCUS SY…
  • p. 12 …FBIS AMMAN RUQMIF/AMEMB AMMAN RUEHEY/AMEMB CAIRO RUQMDM/AMEMB DAMASCUS RUQMJR/AMCONGEN JERtySALEM RUQMZN/SINAI…
  • p. 13 …WI TAKE PART IN THE CAIRO CONFERENCE? TOWARDS THAT COMPREHENSIVE PEACE THAT YOU BOTH SAY YOU…
  • p. 14 …FBiS AMMAN RUQMIF/AMEMB AMMAN RUEHEY/AMEMB CAIRO RUQMDM/AMEMB DAMASCUS RUQMJR/AMCONGEN JERUSALEM RUQMZN/S…
  • p. 15 …WILt TARE PLACE IN CAIRO, IN GENEVA, IN JERUSALEM, WITH ALL 06E RESPECTI NOT BEFORE THE…
  • p. 16 …FBis AMMAN RUQMIF/AMEMB AMMAN RUEHEY/AMEMB CAIRO RUQMDM/AMEMB DAMASCOS RUQMJR/AMCONGEN JEROSALEM RUQMZN/SINAI…
  • p. 17 MSGNO 1273 (FBXX) CRN *1 /I2/77* *05112* PRT I L T I 70- V2O1 CAIRO…
  • p. 19 …FBIS AMMAN RUQMIF/AMEMB AMMAN RUEHEY/AMEMB CAIRO RUQMDM/AMEMB DAMASCOtS RUQMJR/AMCONGEN JERUSALEM RUQMZN/SINAI…
  • p. 20 …SAID THAT IT IS YOUR WNOERSTANDINGIrAT THE CAIRO CONFERENCE WOULD nISCUSS SUBSTANCE. AND PROCEDURE, THE. PALESTINIAN…
  • p. 21 …IT WAS CONFIRMED IN CAIRO THAT IN AN INTERVIEW WITH U,S TELEVISIN.a AS.SADAT…
  • p. 22 …FBIS AMMAN RUQMIF/AMEMB AMMAN RUEHEY/AMEMB CAIRO RUQMDM/AMEMB DAMASCUS RUQMJR/AMCONGEN JERUSALEM RUQMZN/SINAI…
  • p. 23 …WEEKS 5GO, AS THE SECRETARY CAME FROM CAIRO TO JERUSALEM AND THEN WENT TO THE KING…
  • p. 25 …weeks ago, as the secretary came from Cairo to Jerusalem and then went to the King…
  • p. 26 …first of the year,, when the Cairo conference might possibly take another level or dimension? to…
  • p. 27 …I think this is really the purpose of the Cairo conference. Now the delegations both of…
  • p. 28 …So I have no doubt whatsoever that in Cairo our delegations will talk not only about…
  • p. 29 …We have said this to them from the moment that the Cairo conference was proposed. They…
  • p. 30 …policy in the region, against the background of preparations for the Cairo conference. HA'AREZ says…
  • p. 31 …Everyone hopes for the success of the Cairo conference, but side by side with hope one…
  • p. 32 …Thank you.end recordi g _ CABINET MEE BEGI ,OMMENTS ON CAIRO AGENDA TA122019Y Jerusalem Domestic Television…
  • p. 33 …Begin had proposed to Dayan that the Israeli delegation to the Cairo conference consist of the…
  • p. 34 …The military committee will convene in Cairo. The political committee will convene in Jerusalem. Those committees…
  • p. 36 …as we shall be continuing in the Cairo conference to discuss whatever points of difference are…
  • p. 41 …not attended the first round of the Cairo conference be invited to the second round once…
  • p. 42 …tQuestion you said you .were raising the level of participation in the Cairo conferenceto the ministerial…
  • p. 43 …What we are doing now here in Cairo is the preparation for Geneva. Geneva is not…
  • p. 44 …Begin Departs Ismailia NC261008 Editorial Report NC Cairo Domestic Service in Arabic at 0945 GMT on…
  • p. 45 …Declaration of Intent Postponed NC261333Y Cairo MENA in Arabic 1325 GMT 26 Dec 77 NC Text…
  • p. 46 …in ng months you will travel the Cairo-Jerusalem route? Answer No. The committee with which…
  • p. 50 …The Egyptian defense minister will open the military committee session in Cairo. A week later the…
  • p. 56 …A security committee in Cairo and a peace committee in Jerusalem is preferable to a conference…
  • p. 60 …the status of the Libyans even in Cairo? We are talking about peace, about a peace…
  • p. 63 …Nobody will threaten the Israeli delegation, either in Cairo or in Jerusalem, and we will discuss…
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QUESTION.
REF TA11B15Y TAKE B OF 4 TAlI 7 33Y--BEGIN VANCE PRESS CONFERENCE,
SUBSTiTUTE FOLLOiIjNG FOR REF YAKE TWO IN ITS ENTIR TY; XXR((TEXT)) ((QUESTION)) MR SECRETARY, IS IT PQ&S$8%E THAT YOUCAN GET THE OTHER PARTIES THAT MR BEGIN JUST MENTIbN10 TO
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LEVEL OR. DIMENSION?
((VANCE)) I THINR IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THESE OTMER COUNTRIESMAY DECIDE AT SOME pOINT TO JOIN THE PEACE PROCES5 AS THE PRIMEMINISTER SAID, ALL OF 'US HOPE THAT THIS WILL BE THECASE.AND WE WiLL CONTINUE TO URGE THAT THEY KEEP AN OPEN MIND AtiD IDN
THE PEACE PROCESS AND TRY AND HEIP IN ACHIEVING THE COMMON G05AL
WHICH ALI Ot US SHARE BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE THAT THiEY TOWANT PEACE:
(UQUESTION INDISTINCT))
((VANCE) I THINE THAT WE MUst PRQCEED WITH THg CAIRO CONPERENCEAND SEE WHAT HAPPENS AS WE G0 ALONG THAT ROAD. THE PEACE pR CESS ISA CONTINUING PROCE$S AND "HRPEFILCY, AT SOME POINT THE OTHERS WILL
JOIN.
(QUESTIONj) MR PRIME MINISTER, YOU SAID THNER t$Ei RESAtATOBE OPfIMISTIC. WHAT CAUSE DO YOU HAVE FQR G 10IMSM?
((BEGINf KNOWLEDGE OF THE FACTS, IT GIVES ME REASON TOBE PTIM STIC.
((QUESTION INDISTINCT))
((BEGIN)) WE SHALL FIND ANOTHR OCCASItON BUT I REPEAT NgDI'D LIKE TO SAYJ THE SECRETARY WILL ALSO CONFIRM IT, THIS IS FOR:

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