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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.
“Cairo”42 pages
P RO E C S I CTIONS DIVISION AR 70- 13 V. 13 Dec 77 ) N5 ISRAEL [Dayan--in English] We are very happy about the ta ks we had here and about the messagethat you brought from Egypt to Israel, and we shall have to find ways to make them goon with the dialog until we reach the final, real peace treaty with all the Arab coun-tries through the help, and the very great help, of our American friends. Thank you.[end recordi g] _ CABINET MEE BEGI ,OMMENTS ON CAIRO AGENDA TA122019Y Jerusalem Domestic Television Service in Hebrew 1900 GMT 12 Dec 77 TA - [Text] Prime Minister Menahem Begin said today that the agenda of the Cairo conference,in general, will be the nature of the peace treaty. Mr Begin made these remarks whenhe was coming out of the cabinet's weekly session which took place in Jerusalem today.Mr Begin also said that the details of the agenda emerged during U.S. Secretary ofState Cyrus Vance's visits to Cairo and Jerusalem. The prime minister today reported to the ministers on Mr Vance's visit to Israel.From the cabinet session our correspondent Elimelekh Ram reports: [begin recording] [Ram] The cabinet held a political debate today at which the prime minister and theforeign minister reported on the talks they held with U.S. Secretary of State CyrusVance and his aides. The cabinet also heard the survey of Israel's ambassador, SimhaDinitz, who spoke on the U.S. viewpoint on developments in the area. One of the cabinet ministers told me after the session that we must not let Presidentas-Sadat steal the United States. Instead of allowing President Carter to put pressureon us, we must preserve the existing system of relations with the United States and ttheir support for us. And, indeed, at the end of the session, the cabinet secretarystressed to journalists that the cabinet had expressed its appreciation of the U.S.efforts. - Another minister said after the session: I am beginning to discover a ray of optimism.Prime Minister Menahem Begin told the correspondents who were waiting for him at theend of the session: [Unidentified correspondent, in English] Mr Begin, did the cabinet, did the govern- ment make any last-minute decisions in regard to Israel? [Begin--in English] We did not have to make any last-minute decisions. As far as theCairo conference is concerned, we actually agreed on the agenda--the Egyptians, theIsraelis and the Americans. And the main agenda of the Cairo conference will be thecontents of the peace treaty which, as I believe, 1 day Egypt and Israel will signand perhaps another day all our neighbors will sign with us. It is a very serious agenda. The deliberations will start on Wednesday. And this Christmas, which willbe coming in some 10 days, this is probably the time of the negotiations in Cairo,at this stage--and then we shall continue. [Ram--in Hebrew] Are you telling me that after Christmas the conference will berenewed in Cairo again? [Begin--in Hebrew] Possibly, and possibly somewhere else. Perhaps after the new year,according to the Christian calendar, there will be a meeting in Geneva or perhapssomewhere else. We are in the era of negotiations over the signing of a peace treaty.[end recording)
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