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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. 3 …The Americans are especially trying to convince King Juhayn. - Britain also promised Mr Begin to help…
  • p. 4 …Prime Minister, both President as-Sadat and King Husayn appeared on British television yesterday. Did you…
  • p. 6 …They will want to examine the conditions under which King Husayn will be ready to join…
  • p. 22 …DEC 7 TA ((PRESS CONFERENCE AT THE KING DAVTD HOTEL IN JERUSACEM GIVEN BY PRIME MINISTER…
  • p. 23 …TO JERUSALEM AND THEN WENT TO THE KING DAVID HOTEL AND THEN WE HAD A PRIVATE…
  • p. 24 …11 Dec 77 TA Press conference at King David Hotel, Jerusalem, given by Prime Minister Begin…
  • p. 25 …to Jerusalem and then went to the King David Hotel and then we had a private…
  • p. 37 …you inform King Husayn? As-Sadat For sure, I shall be informing King Husayn about all…
  • p. 40 …MiddleEast will develop, as his majesty the king of Morocco said, into a paradise on earth…
  • p. 41 …cooperation and development, as his majesty the king of Morocco said, into a paradise on earth…
  • p. 48 …predecessors did at Al-Aqsa Mosque to King 'Abdallah. One single bullet No wonder that the…
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ISRAEL RADIO REPORTS VANCE*BEGIN PRESS CONFERENCE iIm JERUSALIM
TA111733V TAKE 1 OF 4'-BEGIN-VANCE PRESS CONFERENCE
JERUSALEM DOMESTIC SERVICE IN HEBREW 1600 GMT 1# DEC 7 TA
((PRESS CONFERENCE AT THE KING DAVTD HOTEL IN JERUSACEM GIVEN
BY PRIME MINISTER SEGIN AND UeS, SECRETARY OF STAGE VANCE ON
11 DECEMBER AT THE 0ONCLUSION OF THEIR TALKS IN JERUSALEMs>
LIVEs IN ENGLISH))
((TEX il) ((SEGINJ ) MR SECRETARY, LADIES AND GENTkiEMEN. I ' C START
F )M THE END THERE IS REASOO TQ BE OPTIMISTiC NOW, QN BEALF
01 THE G6VERNMENT OF ISRAEL AND THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, MAY. I WELCOME
OUR HONORED GUEST A 0Q DEAR fREEN®s THE SECRETARY OF STATE, MR VANCE,
TO JERUSALEM AND TO OUR OUI6TRYr AND HIS FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES WHO
ACCOMPANY HIM IN THIS VERY IMPORTANT JOURNEY T9 THE MIDDLE EAS!,
BEFORE PRESIDENT AS.SAOAT ARRIVED IN JERUSALEN I SENT A CABLE TO
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN WHICH I SAi~,INTER ALIAs
PEOPLE_ IN OUR COUNTRY AND ABROAD CONTEND THAT THIS I A HISTORIC
MOMENT. YOU HAD CREATED ITW MR PRESIDENT. TONI1GT I THINK iT IS
A PROPITioUS MOMENT TO REPEAT THAT APPRECIATION WHICH THE ISRAELIS
HAVE FOR THE PRESIDENT, FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE
GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE CONGRESS N ROTH ;HOUSES;
IN CONNECTION WITH THESE MOMENTOUS DEVELOPMENT TN THE MiDOLE EAST,
THE UNPRECEDENTED VISIT OF PRESIoEhIT AS SADAT T0 SRA E AND TO
THE SAME EXTENT THE UNPRECEDENiTED RECEPTION ACCONEt TO HIM IN
THIS COUNTRY BY OUR PARLIAMENTS OUR GOVERNMENT AND OUR PEOPLE,
((AS HEARD))
WE ARE NOW IN THE MIDST OF THE REACENMAKING PROCOSS, WE ARE
NOW MAKING A SERIOUS REAL EFFORT TO ACHIEVE AND STABISH PECE IN
THE MIDDLE EAST, I WOULD LIKE To STRESS THAT IT',5 TNHE ACCEPTED
POLICY OF THE :00VERN4MENT O0F THE UNITED STATES, OF ISRAEL AND OF
EGYPT THAT THE EFFORT IS FOR A COMPREHENSIVE PEACE SETTLEMENT,

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