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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.
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PPROVED FOR RELEASE CIA HISTORICAL CO *CTION DV ON AR7O-14 13NOV201 V. 27 Dec 77 , D 22 EGYPT [As-Sadat] That is rirht. [Question] When you speak of progress being made on the question of withdrawal, may I ask Mr Begin what he will interpret such progress as referring to specifically. [Begin] Resolution 242 does not commit Israel for total withdrawal. Therefore, this matter is a matter of negotiations, to establish those secure and recognized boundaries which is mentioned in the second paragraph of Resolution 242. And 'this is the crux of our problem, to negotiate the conditions for. peace in order to establish peace throughout the Middle East. This is what we are going to do in the next few weeks and months. [Question] [Name indistinct] Israeli radio, Arab station. Mr President, Premier Begin expressed the hope that President al-Asad join the peace talks. My question is, Mr President, will Syria eventually join the talks? Is there any chance and if so how will this affect the rejection group in which it is a member? [As-Sadat] Well, I cannot answer this. You should ask President al-Asad. I can't speak for him, 'as I told you. And whenever they find it convenient for them to join, we shall welcome them. [Question] [Name indistinct] of the Chicago DAILY NEWS. President as-Sadat, I would like to ask you first of all, since this conference which you called as the preparatory conference for the Geneva conference seems to me as if you are moving away from Geneva and turning the conference into a Cairo conference, and if so or if not so could you explain if the Cairo conference preparatory for Geneva--as it was set out to be--will reconvene at the committee level simultaneously with the rest of the political committee or will they meet alternately? [As-Sadat) Or will they meet? [Question] Alternately, not simultaneously? - [As-Sadat} It has always been my conviction that without good preparation Geneva will be a failure. I said this during my visit last April in the United States. I made my proposal. I sent proposals for a working group under Vance to start contacting all the parties concerned and a meeting to be prepared before Geneva for the preparations. What we are doing now here in Cairo is the preparation for Geneva. Geneva is not excluded. [Question] Sir, what about the simultaneous meetings of the two committees, sir? Will they meet at the same time in Jerusalem and in Cairo? [As-Sadat] We are, as I said, they will be working in the context of the Cairo conference and, as I said, they will report to the plenary. [Question] Huda Tawfiq, of AL-JUMHURIYAH newspaper. Mr President, this means that the U.S. secretary of state will come here and Mr Waldheim will come here? [As-Sadat] Let us hope so. But for sure we cannot go back; we are going forward. [Question] The political committee will meet in Jerusalem. Does this mean that also Waldheim and Secretary Vance will also be in Jerusalem?
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