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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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F -4Approved for al.ase by CIAFBis 24Z8.AAfA.ND.LNCLASSIFIED (!1/t 2oJ3 _ . OSCOV: ARAB SUPPORT FORRTER MIDEAST PROPOSALS IS TRE*N LD302255Y MOSCOW IN ARABIC TO THE ARAB 'WORLD' 1708 GMT 30 DEC 77.L-D (UNATTRIBUTED COMMENTARY) (TEXT) IN HIS NEW YEAR MESSAGE, UN SECRETARY GENERAL KURTWALDHEIM APPEALED TO INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY TO UNIFY ITS EFFORTS TO SOLVE THE MOST COMPLEX AND IMPORTANT ISSUES OF THE TIME. INPARTICULAR, E POINTED TO THE NEED FOR A COMPREHENSIVE SETTLEMENTOF THE MIDDLE EAST.CRISIS. IN FACT, OF ALL AREAS IN THE WORLD,LIQUIDATING THE GRAVE TENSION IN THE MIDDLE EAST IS OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE. PERHAPS IT IS RELEVENT HERE TO SAY THAT NO ISSUE HAS BEENTHE CAUSE OF SO MANY TOURS, VISITS, MEETINGS AND DISCUSSIONS ASTHE MIDDLE LAST ISSUE." IN THE CLOSING DAYS OF THE CURRENT YEAR, U.S. PRESIDENT CARTERAS EMBARKED ON A LONG FOREIGN TOUR AND ALTHOUGH TWO OUT OF THESIX COUNTRIES HE IS GOING TO VISIT ARE MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES,NAMELY,'IRAN AND SAUDI ARABIA, U.S. NEWS AGENCIES SAY THATPRESIDENT CARTER INTENDS TO GIVE PRIORITY TO THE MIDDLEEAST ISSUE, AND IT IS NATURAL, THEREFORE, THAT PRESIDENT CARTER'STOUR WILL BE THE CENTER OF ATTENTION OF ARAB AND INTERNATIONALPUBLIC OPINION. SE T WHAT IS THE U.S. PRESIDENT TAXING WITH HIM ON HIS TOT?ONE WOULD INEVITALY SAY IMMEDIATELY THAT FOR THOSE WHO STILLSUFFER FROM AGGRESSION IN THE MIDDLE EAST THERE ILL BE NO PRESENTCOR THEM BECAUSE SEFORE HIS DEPARTURE THE PRESIDENT SAID A FEWWORDS FROM WHICH ONE UNDERSTANDS THAT HIS EFFORTS WILLNOT BE DIRECTED TOWARD A COMPREHENSIVE SETTLEMENT IN WHICH ALL THEEARTIES CONCERNED TAKE PART. AND THIS IS WHAT THE SOVIET-U.S.STATEMENT WHICH WAS RELEASED ON T OCTOBER STIPULATES AS AIONDiTION. INDEED, THE U.S. DIPLOMACY AS THE TAS WFASINTINCORRESPONDENT SAYS, INTENDS TO GIVE A OEWIMPETUS TO THE SEPARATEDEALS POLIY, ANDWASHINGTON IS THE ARCHITECT OF THIS POLICY. PRESIDENT CARTER INTENDS T SEXERT PRESSURE ON SOME ARABLEADERS WHO DENOUNCED THE CAPITULATIONIST POLICY OF THEEGYPTIAN PRESIDENT O THAT THEY EITER JOIN THIS POLICY OR ATLEAST REFRAIN PROM CRITICIZ~ING AND RESISTING SEPARATE DEALS.PRESIDENT CARTER IN A TELEVISION STATEMENT FRANKLY OPPOSED GRANTINGTHE PALESTINIAN ARAB PEOPLETHE RIGHT TO ESTALISH THEIROWN ANDEPENDENT STATE HE SAID: WHAT I WOULD LIKE IS THATTHE PALESTINIANS SHOULD NOT HAVE AN INDEPENDENT STATE BUT THtEYSHOULD BE LINKED TO NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES. FOR EXAMPLE, THEY'SHOULD CHOOSE BETWEEN ISRAEL ANoD JORDAN. IN LIGHT OF THIS SITUATION. AS IT APPEARS, ONE MUST LOOK AT THiEANTENTION OF THE U.SC PRESIDENT TO MEET WITH JORDAN'S KINGHUSAYN iN IRAN AN3 OBTAIN SAUDI SUPPORT. UPI SAYS THT PRESIDENTCARTER'S ADVISER STATED LITERALLY THAT THE SUMMIT TALKS WITH SAUDI.ARABIA WILL ACTUALLY GIVE US AN OPPORTUNITY TO 6E CERTAIN IF THERE.IS A POSSIBILITY TO BRING IN THE LIODERATE ARABS, LIKE THE SAUDIS,THE JORDANIANS AND SOME PALESTINIANS, TO TAKE PART IN SONJE FORM4 IN THE .EVENTS THAT ARE CURRENTLY TAKING PLACE BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL. HOWEVER., THIS WAS SAID BEFORETHOFIALTAEETFTEJORDANIAN GOVERNMIENT WHICH FRANKLYHREJECTEDATHE IDEAEOF COOPERATING "IN THE SO-CALLED SETTLEM'ENT WHICH CALLS FOR GIVING ISRAEL ARAB.TERRITORY AS A REWARD FOR ITS AGGRESSION AND FOR ITS VIOLATION OF THERIGHTS' OF THiE PALESTINIANS AND ARABS.. EVEN SAUDI ARABIA HINTEDTHRtOUGH ITS FOREIGN AFFAIRS UNDER SECRETARY THAT IT WOULD NOTOPENLY SUPPORT? THE EGYPTIANI MIDDLE EAST .DIPLOMACY IF PgtESiDEflCARTER REQUIESTED THIS. U#.S.*isRaELI SCHEMES WHICH ARE CALLED SETTEMENTARE SO q.EAR IN THEIR HOSTILITY TO THE ARABS THAT NO ARABSTATE CAN ENDOlRSE THEM UNLESS THAT COUNTRY IS PREPARED TO COM4MITAN OPEN ACT OF TREASONI. 31 DEC a324Z SlAG/kM . UNCLASSIFIED
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