CABLE TO AMEMBASSY TEL AVIV FROM THE WHITE HOUSE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-480-16-1-0
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 28, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 14, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

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DELIVER AT OPENING OF. BUSINESS.
TO AMBASSADOR KEATI NG
AMERICAN E1KB*SSY TEL AVIV
FROM: BRENT SCDWCROFT
THE FOLLOWING LETTERFROM THE PRESIDENT TO PRIME MINISTER MEIR
WAS DELIVERED THIS AFTERNOON TO MINISTER SHALEV.
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DEAR MADAME PRIME. MINISTER:
I HAVE JUST R AD A 4BASS. ADOR KEATING'S' REPGRT OF HIS
CONVERSATION WITH FORE'1GN MINISTER EBAN REGARDING ISRAEL'S
OBJECTIONS TO THE ?JOjNT US-USSR LETTER TO THE SECRETARY
GENERAL 4044M WOULD CONVENE THE GENEVA CONFERENCE ON
DECEMBERtIB. I MUST TELL . Yt3U . I N ALL CANDOR I AM EXTREMELY
DISTURBED OVER THI S:, REPURT, FOR WEEKS WE HAVE: BEEN I N INTENSIVE
NEGOTIATIONS'- AND WE HAVE ACHIEVED WITH GREAT, DIFFICULTY A GRAFT'
LETTER WHICH PROTECTS FULLY ALL OF ISRAEL'S VITAL INTERESTS.
OF THE THREE ISSUES WHICH FOREIGN MINISTER EBAN HAS RAISED'
WE CAN ACHIEVE THE DELETION Of, THE WORDS "AN0,339." I WILL INSTRUCT
SECRETARY KISSING.ER TO TA,LLK TO THE EGYPTIANS. IN THIS SENSE, HOWEVER'
THE OTHER TWO POINTSCANNOT BE ACCOMPLISHED. YOUR FOREIGN MINISTER
HAS . SAID THAT YftR,GOVERNMENT IS OPPOSED TO THE GREATLY ENH4NCED
ROLE WHICH THE LETTER ACCORDS TO THE UN AND THE SECRETARY GFNFRAL.
BUT THE LETTER D O THIS. THE SYG DOES NOT HAVE A SUBSTANTIAL
R LE. HIS ROLE IS',,S E ~FICALLY LIMITED AND SYMBOLIC. MOREOVER,
YIIU MUST *PPRECIAt$ M DA {E PRIME MINISTER: THAT THIS
CONFERENCE is, BEiN~G ~ENED~,;,- R. RESOLUTION 338 AND IT IS
UNAVOIDABLE THAT IN"N ! `SENSE IT SHOULD BE CONVENED UNDER UN AUSPICES.
AS TO YOUR FIN-'AC SUGGESTION THAT THE SENTENCE
PROVIDING FOR DISCUSSION OF PARTICIPATION OF THE PALESTINIANS DURING
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THE FIRST STAGE OF TIDE, CONFERENCE BE DELETED, I WANT TO STRESS. THAT
THE PRESENT FORMHULAT1.,N DOES NOT IN ANY WAY. PREJUDGE THE QUESTION.
THIS IS A MAJOR ACHIEVEMENT SINCE ALL OTHER PARTICIPANTS: WANTED
THE LETTER TO;EMEEACE'A DECISION IN PRINCIPLE IN FAVOR OF
PALESTINIAN REPRESEN'.ATION. MOREOVERs AS YOU KNOW,.IN ACCORDANCE
WITH ACCEPTED' INTERNATIONAL PROCEDURE THE PARTICIPATION AT AN
APPROPRIATE STAGE OF THE CONFERENCE OF ANY POSSIBLE ADDITIONAL
STATE,'GROUP OR O GANIZATION WILL REQUIRE'THE AGREEMENT OF ALL
THE INITIAL PARTICIPANTS, WHO WILL HAVE THE,.RIGHT TO DECLINE TO
NEGOT'IATE' WITH ANY-STATE, GROUP OR ORGANIZATION TO WHOSE PARTICIPATION
THEY HAVE NOT AGREED. 'I HAVE APPROVED A FORMAL UNDERSTANDING TO
THIS EFFECT.
I CONCLUDE WITH THIS FINAL THOUGHT, MADAME PRIME MINISTER.,
I WANT TO SAY TO YOU,1IN ALL SOLEMNITY THAT IF ISRAEL NOW FAILS TO
TAKE A FAVORABLE DECTSI-?N Tp PARTICIPATE IN THE CONFERENCE ON THE
BASIS OF THE LETT. R THAT WE HAVE WORKED OUT, THIS WILL NOT BE
UNDERSTQOO EITHER IN' THE UNITED STATES OR IN THE WORLD AND I WILL NOT
BE ABLE TO JUSTI.FY THE SUPPORT WHICH I HAVE CONSISTENTLY RENDERED
IN OUR MUTUA'L' INTERESTS TO YOUR GOVERNMENT.
I URGE THAT YOU TRANSMIT PROMPTLY. YOUR FAVORABLE REPLY.
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NO REPLY HAS YET BEEN RECEIVED.
WARM REGARDS,
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