Documents / FOIA release
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.
“Cairo”42 pages
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THIS EFFORT. To THE CONTRARY, WE INTEND TO DO DUR ITMOST ArNDBEST TO RRING ABOUT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PEACE AND THE SIGNING OF
PEACE TREATIES BETWEEN ISRAEL AND ALL HER NEIGHBORS ip THE SmUTH,
TO THE EAST AND TO THE NORTH, AND IN THIS EFFORT WE ARE HELPED
TO A VERY GREAT EXTENT BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITgD STATES,
BY THE PRESIDENT AND BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE,. IT IS IN THISSPIRIT, MR PECRETARY THAT WE WELCOME YOU AGAIN IN JERUSAEfi,
((PASSAGE INDISTINCT DUE TO SUPERIMPOSED HEBREW TRANiSATION OFTHE ABOVE))
"." THE SAME ROAD PRESIDENT ASiSADAT DID 3 WEEKS 5GO, AS THE
SECRETARY CAME FROM CAIRO TO JERUSALEM AND THEN WENT TO THE
KING DAVID HOTEL AND THEN WE HAD A PRIVATE TAEKS IT'S ALMOSTA REPETITION OF WHAT HAPPENED 3 WEEKS AGO. AND AGAIN ALL HAS BEEN
DONE IN FRIENDSHIP, IN UNDERSTANDING, IN PURSUIT OF PEACE,THANK YOU, MR.SECRETARY.
((VANCE)) THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR PRIME MINISTER, FOR YOURVERY KINb WORDS. I BRING WITH ME THE APPRECIAT'ION, THE GRATITUDE
AND THE ADMIRATION OF PRESIDENT CARTER AND OF ALC ANERICANS,
THE LEADERSHIP WHICH YOU, MR PRIME MINISTER, AND PRESTDENT A5aSADAT
HAVE GIVEN TO THE. MOVEMENT POR PEACE IS SOMETNING WHICH HISTORY WILL
RDVORD FOR GENERATIONS TO COME' I AM TERRIBLY PLEASED THAT I AM
E TO BE HERE AT THIS POIfiT T0 MEET WITH YOU AND TO: DISCUSS WHAT
WE CAN Do TO HELP FOLLOW THE LEADERSHIP WHICH YOU AND PRESI0ENT
ASSADAT HAVE GIVEN TO THE SEARCH FOR PEACE. I FEEL THAT 0URDISCUSSIONS TODAY, WHICH HAVE BEEN, AS ALWAYS, FRIEMDNiY AND FRUITFUL,HAVE HELPED VERY MUCH IN GUIDING OUR STEPS IN A SUPPORTIVE ROLE
IN THE DAYS AHEAD. SO I THANIK YOU AGAIN, MR PRIME MINISTERS
ON BEHALF OF MYSELFP MY COLLEAGUES AND THE PREStDENT;I, (PASSAGE
INDISTINCT DUE TO SOPERIMPOSED HEBREW TRANSLATION O ABOVE))
((INDISTINCT QUESTION))
((VANCE)) ON WEDNESDAY, THE MEETING IN CAIRO Wli5g COMMENCE,
THE MEETiNG, AS PRESIDENT ASWSADAT HAS INDICATED; IS AN OPEN
MEETING, IT HAS NO FIXED DATE WITHIN WHICH TO ACGOlPLISM ITS TASK.I.ANTICIPATE THAT TRERE WILl BE DISCUSSED AT iE MOETING MATTERS
OF SUBSTANCE AS WELL AS MATTERS OF PROCEDURE. I BELIEVE THAT IT
IS POSSIBLE IN TWOSE MEETINGS TO CHART THE COURSE;, TO: PAVE THE WAY
TOWARDS AN ULTIMATE COMPREHENSIVE SETTLEMENT, A$:ME PRIME MINISTER
H; . SAID. OUR ODJEGTIVE, THE gBJECTIVE WHICH aE AL( SHARE IS
Tr NT WE MAY ACHIEVE A COMPREHENSIVE SETTLEMENO OF ALL OF THE ISSUES
WHICH HAVE TROUBLED THE MIDDLE EAST FOR SO LONG AN1D THAT THR5 STEP
WILL BE A VERY.IMPORTANT STEP ALONG THAT PROBCEM
((INDISTINCT QUESTION))
((VANCE)) ATTHIS MOMENTr BOTH SYRIA AND JORpAi5N H4VE INDICATED
THAT THEY 0p NOT INTEND.TO PARTICIPATE IN.THE CAIRO CONFERENCE,THAT IS A DECISION .HICH EACH MUST TAKE (PASSAGE INDISTINCTDUE TO SUPERIMPOSED HEBREW TRANSCATION)) WE HOPE TMEY WILL VEEP
AN OPEN MIND AND AS THE PEACE PROCESS MOVES FORWARD, THAT THOY WILLDECIDE TO JOIN THE PEACE PROCESS
((BEGIN)) ((PASSAGE IN4ISTINCT)1 THAT BOTH SYRrA AlgD 0ROANWILL JOIN IN THE EFFORT ((PASSAGE INDISTINCT)) EITMER TO CORE TO -JERUSALEM, AS PRESIOENT ASuSADAT DI0a ~0R I THEY WI PREFER ME
TO G0 TO SEE THEMs I WILl G0 ANY PEACE AND MEET TE!.
;(INDISTINCT QUESTION)
((BEGIN)l AMMAN AND DAMASCUS, TO TRY INDEED TO CONVINCE "THELEADERS OF THE TWO GOUNTRIES THAT .THEY CAN JOIN OP CQRSE, IT ISUP TO THEM WE WANT THEM T PARTICIPATE IN THE ERFORT"TOGETHER
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