FBIS Coverage of the Middle East Peace Talks: 1977 December

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FACE NEGOTIATION WITH THE PURPOSE, THE DECLARED GOAL BY BOTH OF THEM
TO SIGN PEACE TREATIES. LET US NOT FORGET THIS VERY IMPORTANT
FACT. IT IS A TdRNING POINT IN THE HISTORY OF BQTH THESE COUNTRIES.
NOW, THERE IS A.NEGATIVE PHENOMENON, THE TRIPDLITANIANiS, BUT WE
BELIEVE IT IS PASSING, BECAUSE THEY ARE INTERESTio, TEY SHOULD
BE INTERESTED, IN JOINING THIS EFFORT, NOW WE MEET, WE TALK
WE SHALL GO ON MEETING, WE CLARIFY MATTERS, WE MAKE AN EFFORT,
AN INTEL(ECTUAL EFFORT, AL OF US! AND THEREFORE THERE IS REASON
TO BE OPTIMISTIC,
((QUESTION)) D YOU HAVE ANY OBSERVATIONS TO MAKE ON AN AgSTRACT
FROM AN EDITORIAL FROM THE NEW .YORK TIMES WHICH SAID AND I QUOTE;
A DURABLE PEACE MEANS (tWORdS INDISTINCT!) CONCESSIONS THAT WILL
GO BEYOND SINAI AND WILL INC6UDE SECURITY ARRANGENIMTS WITH SYRIA AND
JORDAN TO. THE PRICE FOR SECURITYt ABANDONMENT F THE DEMAND
FOR SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE WE$T BANK; I WONDER IP Y0U HAVE
A COMMENT DN THAT?
((BEGIN)) IS THIS QUESTION INTENDED FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE,
OR FOR ME? THANK YOU, MR VALERIANI, I'M GLAD TO SEE YOU. I
HAVEN'T SEEN YOU FOM A LONG TIME. WELL, WHATEVER (tWORD INOISTINCT))
WILL BE PROPOSED BY ANY OF YOlJ, LADIES AND GENTLEMENJ I WILL -GIVE
T"-p FOLLOWING ANSWERS, A VERY SERIOUS ANSWER, MAY ; SAY, MY
_.AENDS, WE ARE NOW IN THE MIDST OF THE MOST DELICATE NEGOTIATIONS
TO ESTABLISH PEACE AFTER SO LONG; PROTRACTED YEARS OF WARFARE
BETWEEN THE COUNTRIES, GIVE A CHANCE TO THAT
((WORD INDISTINCT)). AND EVERYTHING IS, AS I SAID TIME AND AGAIN,
NEGOTIABLE- OF COURSE, EXCEPT THE DESTRUCTION OF .SRAEL-uANO
EVERYTHING WILL BE NEGOTIABaEi. RUT THE NEGOTIATQINS: WILt TARE PLACE
IN CAIRO, IN GENEVA, IN JERUSALEM, WITH ALL 06E RESPECTI NOT
BEFORE THE CAMERA OF QUR MIGHTY FRIENp, THE TELEVISON,
((MICHAEL ELKINS, BBC))- MR PRIME MINISTER, WITH ALL DEFERENCE
TO YOUR DESIRE NOT TO CONDUCT NEGOTIATIONS HERE, CAN YOU, WITHOUT
GOING INTO DETAIL, TELL US WHETHR'SINCE THE AS.SADAT VISIT tHERE
HAS BEEN NEW THINKING CONCERNING ISRAELiS POSITIN WITH REGARD TO
THE WEST BANK?
(.BEGiN)) MY PRIEND, NEW OR OLD; THERE WAS THINING AND pE ARE
THINKING. XXX SUBSTITUTING TELEVISION TEXT FOR ORiGINAL,
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