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UN Secretariat Item Scan - Barcode - Record Title Page 44 Date 22/05/2006 Time 4:37:30 PM S-0865-0002-25-00001 Expanded Number S-0865-0002-25-00001 Title |tems-in-Peace-keeping operations - Middle East - miscellaneous correspondence, articles, reports on the Palestine liberation movements, the death of President Nasser and problems of succession within the UAR Date Created 22/05/1967 Record Type Archival Item Container s-0865-0002: Peace-Keeping Operations Files of the Secretary-General: U Thant - Middle East Print Name of Person Submit Image Signature of Person Submit PRESIDENT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 22 May 1967 My dear Secretary-General; As you prepare to leave for Cairo this evening, I wish to send you these few lines to offer you my warmest good wishes for your mission. I share your concern over the situation in the Middle East at the present time, and I know your mission has an important bearing not only on reducing tension in the area but also in regard to the maintenance of world peace generally. I therefore wish you every success, as a friend and colleague, and also in the interest of world peace and the future effectiveness of the United Nations. Yours y> The Secretary-General United Nations New York The members of the Jewish Faith Residents in the United Arab Republic receive similar treatment to the one accorded to citizens of the United Arab Republic. They suffer no discrimination, a policy which is in strict conformity with our long established principles and traditions. If a number of those residents have been temporarily detained, such precautionary measures were undertaken to ensure their personal safety during the present exceptional circumstances taking also into consideration the require- ments of public security. Their treatment conforms with all norms of humanitarian behaviour; members of their families are allowed to visit them regularly. The Red Cross was notified in due course of the aforementioned measures. It should be noted that the unfounded accusations of ill-treatment of Jews in U.A.R. constitute a weak and transparent attempt along with similar slanderous allegations, to lend an unconvincing cover to the inhuman treatment inflicted by the Israeli authorities on the Arab population in the occupied areas, i. e., the looting of their bank deposits, the unjustified and harsh restriction enforced on the consumption of the Sinai waters, the forced chasing of both Palestinians and Egyptians from Gaza and El Arish, and least but not last, the eviction of all Egyptians who are arbitrarily considered by the Israeli authorities as non-residents of the Sinai Peninsula, all of which are flagrant violations of the United Cations Charter, the Geneva Conventions and the basic tenets of human behaviour. 10 January 1969 Following is text of message sent to Bull, Oslo, from Bunche through the Norwegian Mission: Bull from Bunche. Personally, I think your talk with General Boustany might "best take place on a visit to Beirut after repeat after your return to Jerusalem in order to avoid undue attention and significance being given to it. 15 May 1969 RdeB/ksn An Agence France-Presse dispatch of lL.May includes some excerpts of the political platform of Mr. Georges Pompidou. The programme is presented as an answer to several questions. One of the questions reads as follows: "Question: Will Mr. Pompidou maintain the embargo on arms supplies to Israel? "Answer'. It depends less on Mr. Pompidou than on the situation in the Middle East. The main primordial purpose of France's action must be the installation in the Middle East of a just and durable peace between Israel and the Arab countries. The goal necessarily implies the end of all states of belligerency, open or smoldering, and the recognition by all States in the region of the existence of Israel within secure , recognized and guaranteed borders. The United Nations resolution of 22 November 19&7 laid the general principles of such a settlement, which can be carried out only if there is in the Middle East no imbalance of forces to the advantage of one or the other, that is to say, if the Big Powers stop supplying arms to the belligerents." (The same issue of Le Monde contains an article on Burma by special correspondent Jean Claude Pomonti. If this article does not appear in the English weekly version, I shall have it translated for you.) Rene1 de Branche October 1969 *jk \\*\ RdeB/ksRrleR/lrcn fj\W cc: The Secretary-General Dr. Blanche Mr. Narasimhan Mr. Bolz-Bennett Excerpts from an article in Le Monde. 12~lg October 1969, on French Foreign Minister Schumann's visit to Moscow Priority to four-Power talks Concerning the Middle East, nothing appears to have been said which could change the relatively optimistic impression vhich Mr. Schumann had received from his previous conversations in New York with Mr. Gromyko and also at Mr. Thant's dinner for the big four Powers. This optimism is based, on the one hand, on the belief that agreement is possible among the Four (perhaps even among the parties themselves) on the modalities of a general settlement and, on the other hand, on the fact that the basic principles of the French position have not raised any objections from the Soviet side. French diplomats are convinced that the discussions among the permanent members of the Security Council are the only means of reaching an agreement which would be difficult for anyone to oppose. They believe, moreover, that a settlement in the Middle East would constitute a precedent from which other conflicts in other parts of the world could benefit. According to observers, the Soviet Union and Prance might have agreed that a solution to the Israeli-Arab war should not be dependent on the solution of other problems in which the interests of the great Powers are equally in conflict. In spite of historical references, there is a slight shift from Gaullist orthodoxy which considered that it was possible to link a settlement in the Middle East with a solution to other confrontations. Finally, France raises no objection to the essential work being done by the Soviet Union and the A.. - 2 - United States, the results of which will probably be examined during the four-Power meeting on 20 October. Concerning Viet-Nam, Prance is even less in a position directly to promote a peaceful solution. Mr. Schumann, it seems, has advanced various suggestions as to possible methods of bringing about a settlement. In the meantime, while wishing to remain "available", if need be, the French Government does not intend to take, openly, any initiative without being assured beforehand that it would effectively contribute to a solution to the conflict. Generally speaking, the idea of a "Vietnamization of the peace" is said to inspire these suggestions. It does not seem, however, that the discussions in the Kremlin have been expanded on this subject; the Soviet interlocutors have not given the impression of being ready to talk, on behalf of anyone, friend or ally, to Morth or South Viet-Ham. ROUTING SLIP FICHE DE TRANSMISSION TO: The Secretary-General A: FOR ACTION POUR SUITE A DONNER FOR APPROVAL POUR APPROBATION FOR SIGNATURE POUR SIGNATURE PREPARE DRAFT PROJET A REDIGER FOR COMMENTS POUR OBSERVATIONS MAY WE CONFER? POURRIONS-NOUS EN PARLER? YOUR ATTENTION VOTRE ATTENTION AS DISCUSSED COMME CONVENU AS REQUESTED SUITE A VOTRE DEMANDE NOTE AND FILE NOTER ET CLASSER NOTE AND RETURN NOTER ET RETOURNER FOR INFORMATION POUR INFORMATION Text of a debate between President Nasser and the Socialist National Congress on the Rogers plan. FR M: D3aie:July 1970 ° Rene de Branche CR.13(11~64> "RE. V. 27 Jul 70 G 3 UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC This, brothers, is the^aiSn aiSa the way—the triumph of.,..peace, and the peace of triumph. This is t harness age of this^'liongress, and^nis is the cause of and our Arab natjjtSlf, Mayjlod g^iff you/j3uccess#4nd peace|be with ^ ~" jf t: ^ *^w#f***~ Brothers, tire ASU Nationi^>?Gongress foixrjihr ordinary session now ends. The Central Committas^will set the date for the next congress. We wish you every success. [applsiiuCe] Question-Answer Session c Service in Arabic 1706 GMT 24 Jul 70 M *sldent JamalAbd an-Nasir's replies to questions by delegates to the Arab Socialist ffnion NationaT"'co;ngrres"sr^"HveJ [Text] In the name of Allah the merciful, the compassionate, the meeting is open. Having read the questions, I can say that it will not be possible to answer all of them at a public session, because some deal with military matters. Therefore, those questions whose answers would not benefit our enemies will be answered in public session, and those dealing with military aspects will be answered at a closed session after the recess. Even then I will not speak about military matters in detail as requested, because we cannot discuss military matters in detail before a congress of 2,000 members without jeopardizing our security. However, we will be able to speak in general about military aspects at the closed session. Also, there is no need to speak about the stands of certain states at a public session, but we will tell the truth during the closed session. The situation regarding the Arab states, Arab solidarity, and whether there is an Arab plan—all these matters need not be discussed at a public session, but we will speak about them at a closed session. We will therefore begin with the general questions. When we have finished answering these questions, the congress will go into a 30-minute recess after which the remaining questions will be answered at a closed session.