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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.
MSGNO 1291 (FBXX) CRN *)1/12/Y7* *O5il2*SAI THSTOTM RMTa ftNrTA U At. PP fEC OTt Etf lqp $ C I -1 NOV2O1- ~U"U~J~T.VS NAMELY, A COMPREHENSIVE PEACE, WNICH WILT SETTLE THE QUESTIONS OF THE MIDDLE EASTj AND, THEREFORE. I WILL CONTINUE TO PURSUE OUR POSITION WITH RESPECT TO THIS AND DISCUSS THATMATTER WITH THEM, ((QUESTION)) DO YOU THINK ARAB UNITY WILL HELP Th PEACE PROCESS,DR, AS SOME ISRAELIS IN THE PAST HAVE SU4GESTED A DIVIDED ARABWORLD ACTUALLY HELPS ISRAEL? ((BEGIN)) I DO NOT AGREE THAT A DIVIDED ARAB WORJD WI t. HELP ISRAEL, TO THE CONTRARY; WE BELIEVE THAT WE SHOULD HAV@ PEACEON ALL THE BORDERS OF ISRAEL, SIGNED PEACE TREATIES WITH ALL OUR FOUR NEIGHBORS,..EGYPT, JORDAN? SYRIA, LEBANON. ALL THE FOUR NEIGHBORS SHOULD LIVE IN PEACE WITH ISRAEL AND ISRAEL WANTS TO LIVE IN PEACE WITH THEM, WE 0 NOT DRIVE WEDGES' WE DO NOTBELIEVE IN THAT PAMOUS PRECEPT KNOWN IN LATINI DIVION ET IMPERA, WE DON'T WANT TO DIVIDE AND WE DoN T WANT TO RULLE WE WANT PEACE,THIS IS WHAT WE BELIEVE IN, ((QUESTION)) AT THE TRIPOLI CONFERENCE THE PACESTINIANS TOOK,ACCORDING TO PRESIDENT AS-SADAT, A MORE EXTREME POSiToN THAi THEY WOUCD NOT PARTICIPATE IN NEGOTIATIONS~AT ALL AT THIS STAGEARE YOU MORE OPTIMISTIC AS YOU LOOK DOWN THE ROAD TO NEGOTIAI'IDNS? T' PALESTINIANS HAVE, IN FACT, TAKEN THEMSELVES OUT OF THE PICTURE, (tBEGIN)) MY DEAR FRIEND, TRIPOLI CANNOT MAKE ANYBODY OPTIMISTIC.WHEN I SPOKE ABOUT OPTIMISM, I MEANT THE TREND, THE DEVEIOPMENTS. WE HOPE TO OVERCOME THE NEGATIONS OF THE TRIPOLITANIANS, AND OFCOURSE IT IS A MOST NEGATIVE PHENOMENON, FOR THE TIME BEING,WHAT DID IT SAY IN TRIPOLI; NO RECOGNITION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL,NO NEGOTIATIONS WITI ISRAELI NO PEACE WITH ISRAELI ACTUALLYANOTHER PRONUNCIAMENTO WAS MADE THERE THAT ISRAEC SHOULD BE DESTROYED. THIS IS NEGATIVE, OF COURSE, THE SOVIET UNIONIS BEHIND THAT NEGATIVE AT.TITUDE; WHICH IS VERY REGRETTABtEAND IT IS A COCHAIRMAN Os THE GENEVA CONFERENCEy BUT THIS HAPPENED,LET ME SAY, 2 WEEKS AGOG AND THAT DOES NOT DECIDE TIE ISSUE'MANKIND WIlL MARCH FORWARD, WAR IS EVITABLEj PEACE IS INEVITABLEfSO WE SHALL OVERCOME WITH A COMMON EFFORT THAT URD, TOO, ANDSYRIA AND LEBANON AND JORDAN WILL JOIN IN THE POAC EFFORTS, ULTIMATELY, WE SHALL HAVE PEACE TAROUGHOUT THE REGION, THIS ISOUR BELIEF. (QUESTION)) MR VANCE, YOU SAID THAT IT IS YOUR WNOERSTANDINGIrAT THE CAIRO CONFERENCE WOULD nISCUSS SUBSTANCE. AND PROCEDURE, THE. PALESTINIAN $SSbE INVOLVES BOTH MATTERS. IN YOUR TASKS INEGYPT AND HERE IN ISRAEL HAVE YOU HEARD ANY THOUGHTS, IDEAS ORPROPOSALS WHICH WOULD INDICATE THERE IS ALREADY MQVEMENT TOWARD$BRIDGING THE GAP, A VERY WIDE GAP BETWEEN THE ARAB AND THE ISRAELI POSITIONS 0N THE PALESTINIANS? kVANCE)I LET ME SAY THAT I BELEVE THAT THE PALESTINIAN *UESTINWILL BE bNE OF THE 'ISSUES WHICH WItL BE DISCUSSE6 AT THE CAIRD CONFERENCE, S(QUESTION INDISTINCT, APPARENTLY ABOUT THE EdIE OF THE SOVIETUNIO1N))? i(VANCE) TME SOVIET UNION IS .THE COCHAIRMAN OF TE GENEVA. CONPERENCE, THEY HAVE A SERIOUS RESPONSIBILITY AND WE 'DO ASCOCHAIRMAN. THEY HAVE SAID THAT THEY INTEN TO p[SCdARGE THATRESPONSIBILITY, I DO NQt WANT To COMMENT ON THEIR MOTIVES ANDTHEREFORE WILL NOT 0 SQ. Mi606 SB/LINDENAU/SM Id1211f7 DEC ENDACL.BT #0498 NNNN NNDO
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