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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.

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  • 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…
MSGNO 1377 IFOXX) CRN */12/2/7* *05i12*
V 01
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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