Negotiations delayed: Egypt, Israel divided over agenda for talks

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English

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Business Day XIV (99) July 15, 1980

Year

1980

Subject

Israel -- Politics and government

Palestinian Arabs -- Israel

Jewish-Arab relations

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4 Business Day Tuesday, July 15, 1980 WORLD SITUATIONER Negotiations delayed Egypt, Israel divided India, Pakistan try to resolve conflicts Moscow set for Olympic games opening Saturday MOSCOW, July 14 (Reuter) — Olympic leaders and advance parties of athletes Sunday toured the closely guarded sports venues where the strife-ridden Moscow games open on Saturday. The host city of the 22nd modern Olympics had a quiet Sunday, with traffic thinned out to leave nearly empty streets, decorated with greetings for athletes and tourists who have come despite the political storm over the games. Seven members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) executive board finished three days of meetings in the morning, and were to tour facilities before the formal opening of the IOC session Monday night IOC president Lord Killanin and his executive attended a formal lunch with the head of the Soviet organizing committee, Deputy Prime Minister Ignaty Novikov, and the IOC chief told his hosts he was sure the games would be a success. About 70 rank-and-file members of the world body are gathering here for the crucial meeting, which must elect a new president to succeed Ireland’s Lord Killanin, and seek ways to restore the prestige of the Olympic movement after some 60 member countries decided to boycott these games. FOR LEASE OFFICE SPACES IN PASEO DE ROXAS, MAKATI Areas 200-500 sqm. For details call Nancy Tel. 818-43-65 or 88-25-67 BUILDING FOR LEASE Floor Area - 840 sqm 1690 M. 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CRUZ over agenda for talks Begin sets office transfer to Jerusalem JERUSALEM, July 14 (Reuter) — Israeli Prime Minister Mena chem Begin is deter mined to move his office to Arab-East Jerusalem and has informed Egypt and the United States of his intention, Israel Ra dio reported Sunday night. Quoting government sources, the radio said Interior Minister Yosef Burg, Israel’s chief nego tiator at talks on Palesti nian autonomy, had told the Egyptian and Ameri can negotiators of Mr. Begin’s decision at recent talks with them in Wash ington The radio reported that US chief negotiator Saul Linowitz had asked Dr. Burg to persuade Mr.. Begin not to shift his office to the eastern sec tor of the city, captured by Israel in the 1967 Burg replied: “Impos sible,” the radio said. A spokesman in the Prime Minister’s Office said that a complex of government buildings was under construction near Mount Scopus in the occupied sector of the city. 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Informed sources on both sides of the committee set up to arrange an agenda said Israel had rejected attempts by Egypt to introduce items which Tel Aviv claimed affected Israel’s security. But the two sides agreed to reopen talks Monday, extending them into Tuesday if necessary. The talks are purely procedural, preparing the ground for a meeting of chief delegates in Alexandria next month. Egypt suspended the negotiations in May because of moves in the Israeli Parliament to declare Jerusalem the united capital of the Jewish state and Israel’s policy of settling Jews on the occupied West Bank. Arab East Jerusalem was occupied by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war. Sunday, Egypt’s minister of state for foreign affairs, Boutros Ghali, told reporters Egypt had been persuaded to resume the negotiations after receiving “guarantees about certain solutions’’ from the United States which is the third party to the negotiations. He refused to be more specific. Ghali and Israeli Justice Minister Shmuel Tamir clashed only hours befo.re the talks began when Tamir restated his government’s position that “Jerusalem is a unified city, the capital of Israel within Israeli sovereignty.” “That is not our position,” Ghali replied. “Our position was expressed in an exchange of letters with the United States and we received a positive answer from the US.” Japan to boost defense India and Pakistan, which have fought three wars in 35 years, will try to remove mutual mis trust and narrow down wide differences on Afghanistan in minister ial talks this week. Pakistani Foreign Minister Aga Shahi’s three-day visit to New Delhi, beginning today, follows inconclusive dis cussions in Islamabad earlier this year when the two sfdes achieved little more than a better understanding of each other’s points of view. The two countries are opposed to the presence of Soviet troops in Afghanistan, but disagree on how to secure their withdrawal. India has repeatedly voiced deep concern over moves to rearm Pakistan following last Decem ber’s Soviet military intervention in Afghanofftcia* i^New^eUri obstacle to greater mutual confidence. India and Pakistan are still in the process of nor malizing their relations. Shahi will call on Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who met Pakis tani President Zia-ul-Haq last April when they attended Zimbabwe’s independence celebra tions in Salisbury. The two leaders did not feel the need to meet again when both traveled to Belgrade for President Tito’s funeral three weeks later. But Shahi’s main talks will be with External Affairs Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, whom he has never met. Rao, who discussed the Afghan problem in Moscow last month, said on his return that the immediate task was to try to start a dialogue between the parties The Afghan govNEW YORK, July 14 (Reuter) — Hisahiko Okazaki, foreign rela tions director for Japan’s defense agency, said in an interview published Sunday his country would boost its defense spending in the next “SevetW metres. “We will increase our defense budget and im prove our quality,” he told Newsweek maga zine. “We’ll build more ships. We will buy more airplanes - lOOF-lSsand 45 P-3Cs. “That’s an enormous fighting capability.” Unidentified warplanes fire on Cuban ships HAVANA: Unidentified warplanes fired on two Cuban ships in the Atlantic off Africa, killing the captain of one vessel and wounding three officers, the official Prensa Latina news agency said. The agency said the ships were fuel tankers which were in the area to supply the Cuban tuna fleet which operates in mid-Atlantic. The attack took place Saturday night 30 miles off the coast of Western Sahara, Prensa Latina said. — Reuter Sacked Iran generals admit link with Bakhtiar TEHERAN: Two former generals, arrested as masterminds of a planned coup, have confessed that they had direct links with exiled former Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar, the head of the Islamic revolutionary military court said Sunday. Hojatoleslam Mohammadi Reyshahri identified the gene rals as Said Mehdiyun, a former air force chief, and Ahmad Mohaqeqi, an ex-commander of the gen darmerie. — Reuter US solon visiting two Koreas SEOUL: The first US congressman ever to visit North Korea, Representative Stephen Solarz (De mocrat, New York) yesterday met with South Korean President Choi Kyu-Hah in Seoul. He will go to Pyongyang today via Tokyo. — Agence France Presse India discusses MIG-23 purchase with USSR NEW DELHI: India has begun negotiations with the Soviet Union for acquiring the multi-purpose MIG23 aircraft as well as the technology for manufac turing it, the English daily, Indian Express, reported yesterday. — Agence France Presse Republicans begin Detroit convention DETROIT, Michigan: Republicans yesterday began flocking to a reconverted sports arena to open their national convention where they will pledge allegiance to presidential candidate Ronald Reagan and launch their drive to chase Jimmy Carter from the White House. Selection of a vice-presidential running mate for Mr. Reagan was the only suspense in a four-day multi-million dollar political love fest catered by and for the Republican party. — Agence France Presse Released hostage ‘in good condition’ WASHINGTON: American diplomat Richard Queen, one of the US embassy hostages in Iran until his release Friday, is in good condition but medical tests will last a day or two, a State Department official said Sunday. — Reuter

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