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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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JERUSALEM DOMESTIC NEBREW 1 1b00 XXX OF VANCE REPLY))j
((TEXi) )tBEGINJ) MAY I PAY TRIBUTE TO THE ENFORTS MADE gY
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE GOVERNMEbNT OF THE UNITED
STATES THIROUGHOUT TR4E YEARS, MAINLY THIS YEAR, T. BRING ABOUT
THIS MOMENTOUS DEVELOPMENT, AND LET ME ALSO ACO EVN'THE VISIT
ITSELF BY PRESIDENT ASuSADAT TO JERUSALEM WAS MADE IOSSIBLE BY THE
HELP OF THE UNITED STATES GGVERNMENT, SO I WOULD LIKE 70 PAY
- JBUTE TO THIS EFFORT To THE SECRETARY.
((QUESTION)) PRESIDENT AS-SADAT SAID IN AN INTRVIiW YESTERDAY
THAT THE ISRAELI POSITION ON THE PALESTINIAN QUESTWN WOULD9SAVE
TO CHANGE, IF PEACE IS TO BE ACHIEVED IN THE MIDOC EAST, HMAVE YOU
WORKED OUT A NEW POSITION OI THE PALESTINIAN QL'ESTION AND ZS
MR VANCE CARRYING ANY MESSAGE ON THIS SUBJECT TO THE OTHER ARAB
COUNTRIES OR IS HE QARRYING ANY MESSAGE FROM YCU T'1 THE ITHER
ARAB COUNTRIES?
liBEGIN)) THERE 'ISA PROBLEM ©F. THE PALESTINIAN ARBS I SAID
SO IN THR PRESENCE OF PRESIDENT AS-SADAT IN THE KNESSET AND WE
WILL FIND A SOLUTIIN FOR THIS PROB1EM, ((LONG PAUSE! YoU ERPECT
ME TO REPLY TO IT?
((QUESTION)) YOU MADE A STRONG STATEMENT IN SUPPOWR OF AR B
UNITY., D YOU PLAN ON THIS TRIP AND IN SUBSEQUENT WEEKS TO TRY -
TO FACILITATE THE EGYPTIANS AND THE OTHER ARABS CQMING TpGTHiER;
HAVE YOU DISCUSSED THIS WITH MR AS-SADAT TO TRY AND FIND S MO WAY
OF BRINGING THE ARABS TOGETHER?
C(VANCE)} I HAVE DISCUSSED WIiH PRESIDENT AS-NADATTHE QUESTIONS
OF THE DIVISiONS THAT EXIST WITHIN THE ARAB WORO:D HIE LIKE ALLOF US, WOULD LIKE TO SEE THOSE DIVISIONS HEALED AND QiSAPPEAR.
I WILL IN MY TALKS WITH THE iHER ARAB LEADERS, URGE' TMEM AS WE
HAVE FROM THE OUTSET, TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PNACE: TALKS, WE HAVE

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