FBIS Coverage of the Middle East Peace Talks: 1977 December

MSGNO 1273 (FBXX) CRN *1 /I2/77* *05112*
PRT I L T I 70- V2O1
CAIRO CONFERENCE, NOW THE DELEGATION ((PASSAGE INDISTINCTPI THEBASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PEACE TREATIES TO BE NEGOTIATED, CONoCUpED
AND ULTIMATELY SIGNED, AND AS YOU KNOW, UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW
THERE ARE MANY CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES AND SECTIONS AND SUBSECTIONS
OF A PEACE TREATY OP VERY GREAT VALUE TO THE FUTURE OF ANY NATION
WHICH SIGNS ((PASSAGE INDISIliJCT 0UE TO SUPERIMPOSEQ HEBREW TRANSLATION
OF ABOVE BEGIN'S REPLY)) I WANT TO STRESS THAT If Illi1L BE A SAMPLE
FOR THE PEACE TREATIES To BE SIGNED WITH ACL QUR NErGHBORS S THE
PEACE MAKING PROCESS WHICH STARTS NOW IN CAIRO UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES
WILL BE THE END, IT WILL BE THE BEGINNING OF THiT PROCESS WHICH
ULTIMATELY MUST BRING ABOUT THE ESTABLISHMENT CF A PERMANENT PEACE
IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
((QUESTION--IN ENGLISH, FADING INTO HEBREW TRANSieTIQON))THE PRIME MINISTER IS ASKED IF THESE PRINCIPLES INCLUDE THE
PALESTINIAN ISSUE.
C(BEGIN)l ((PASSAGE INDISTINCT) WILL BE DISCUSSEDp DEBATED-AWE
THINK OF IT AND I AM SURE THAT WE WILL FIND A SWCUT0IN
((QUESTION)) MR PRIME MINISTER, IN THE ABSENCE OF OTHER
ARAB GOVERNMENTS AT CAIRO WOULD YOU BE INCLINED TO REGARD PRESIDENT
AS,,SAOAT AS A PERSQN WHO CAN REFCECT THEIR VIEWS AND INDEED DISCUSS -
L UES ((PASSAGE INDISTINCTJ),
S'((ANNOUNCER)) A CONSUCTATION IS NOW TAKING PLACE BETWEEM PATTIR,
VANCE AND BEGIN.
tiBEGIN)) WHILST IN JERUSALEM PRESIDENT ASeSAOAT SAID, WHEN
WE START TALKING DIRECTLY ABOUT PEACE, WE WOULC CIKE TO REPRESENT
THE ((WORD INDISTINCT)) OF THE ARAB CAUSE AND WE AGREED,. .0IHAVE NO DOUBT WHATSOEVER THAT IN CAIRO OUR DELEGATI8NS WILL TALK
NOT ONLY ABOUT THE BILATERAL RELATjONS BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL BUT
ALSO ABOUr THE PROBLEMS CONCERNING ISSUES BETWEEN THE.MIDE EAST
NEIGHBORS. I CAN ONLY IMAGINE TwAT PRESIDENT AS;SAQAT WILLi NQT
CLAIM THAT HE CAN SPEAK FOR. INSTANCE, NOW ON BEHALF OF PRESIDENT
AkeASAD BECAUSE PRESIDENT ALtASAD DOESNIT AGREE T0 TAIK WITH US.
SO THIS iS A PROSLENs INDEED, OF THE PEACE=MAKING PROcESS. CET US
HAVE SOME PATIENCE, FOR THE TIME BEING THERE ARE THOSE WHO TAKE
A NEGATIVE ATTITUDE ((PASSAGE INDISTINCT DUE TO SUPERIMPOSED HEBREW
TRANSLATION OF ABOVE)) I BELIEVE IT WILL.CHAN00, THAT THEY WILL
JOIN. IT IS A PRDBLEM OF TIME; ((WORDS INDISTINCT))
)_(QUESTION INDISTINCTf)
((VANCE)) THE UNITED STATES IS DELIGHTED TMAT WE HAVE FACE-TQ FACE
DISCUSSIONS GOING 0N BETWEEN1 ISRiEL. AND EGYPT, iT HAS BEEN UR
HOPE FOR YEARS THAT THE TIME WOULD COME WHEN THE pARTIES CSUD SIT
DOWN TOGETHER, FACEwTO.FACE AND DISCUSS TIE SERIUS ISSUES
THAT HAD TO BE RESOLVED IN ORpER TO GET PEACE. WE HAVE SAID TIME
AND AGAINk THAT THATIS THE ONLY WAY YOU'RE GOING TO ACHIEVE A REAL
PEACE. S0 OUR ROLE IS THAT OF A MEDIATOR, A FACELITA.TOR TRAT
IS THE RDLE WE INTEND TO PLAYi wE WANT TO BE SUPPORTIVE OF THE
DISCUSSIoNS, FACE.TteFACEs AMONG THE PARTIES
((BEGiN)) ((PASSAGE INDISTIICi DUE TO SUPERIMPOSED HEBREW
TRANSLATION OF ABOVE VANCE REPLYfl THE SECRETARY OP STATE IS
VISITING THE MIDDLE EAST OFEN. AS A CITIZEN CF ONE OF THE HOST
COUNTRIES I WILL AD~p-NOT OFTEN ENOUGH,
ItANN©UNCER-wIN REBREW)) THNE (tPREVIOUSeFBIS)I QWIESTION
((TQ VANCE-,PBIS)) WAS ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE $ECRETARY OF BTATE
VISITS ISRAEC FREQUENTLY. HOW DOES HE FEEL Nh AOgQT VISITI0G WHEN
THERE ARE DIRECT TALKS?
((QUESTION INDISTINCT )
((BEGIN)) YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN, MY FRIENOs ThAT WE DO NO? Go
INTO PUBLIC POLEMICS ABOUT ANY SiATEMENTS WHATSEVERC I THINK IT!S
A HEAL-THY ATTITUDE, THE REAL RESPONSE IS NEGOTIATIOANS AND