AL-ASAD RETURNS; POLITICAL COMMAND WITH EGYPT FORMED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-238-3-24-8
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: August 17, 2010
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: December 21, 1976
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/08/18: LOC-HAK-238-3-24-8
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AL-ASAD RETURNS; POLITICAL COiiMAND WITH EGYPT FORMED
NC211335 DAr1ASCUS DOMESTIC SERVICE IN ARABIC 1315 GMT 21 DEC 76 NC
(EXCERPTS) PRESIDENT HAFIZ AL -ASAD RETURNED TO D^ MASCUS
AT 1415 TODAY AFTER A 4-DAY VISIT TO THE ARAB REPUBLIC OF
EGYPT WHICH WAS CROWNED WITH FULL SUCCESS AND RESULTED IN A
NEW UNIONIST STEP. i!!ENaERS OF THE ACCOiIPANYING SYRIAN ARAB
DELEGATION RETURNED WITH THE PRESIDENT.
AT 1045 TODAY, PRESIDENT t'itlHAvMAD ANWAR AS-SADAT ARRIVED AT
AL-UUU:33AH PALACE WHERE HE AND PRESIDENT HAFIZ AL-ASAD SIGNED,
IN THE PRESENCE: OF THE SYRIAN A:;D EGYPTIAN DEL>~G;=,TIONS, A
DECLARATION ON THE ESTA3LISHifiENT OF A UNIFIED POLITICAL
CO;ri;'IAND 3ETWGEN IHE SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC AND THE ARAB REPUBLIC
OF EGYi3T ^WD A;4 EXECUTIVE DECISION] ON THIS DECLARATION.
AFTER THE SIGNING AND TAKING OF COt1101Eir;ORATIVE PHOTOGRAPHS ON
THIS OCCASION, PRESIDENT ANWAR AS-SADAT ACCOMPANIED HIS BROTHER
PRESIDENT HAF IZ AL-ASAD IN AN OFF ICI; L v;OTORCADE TO CAIRO AIRPORT.
DEPUTY PRIt E c1INISTER AND FOREIGN i{iINISTER 'ABD AL-HALItfI
KHADOAvi WILL HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE AT 1800 (1600 GmT--
FS IS) TODAY TO SPEAL ABOUT THE RESULTS OF THE PRESIDENT'S
VISIT ANT) READ THE DECLARATION! ESTAi3LISHING THE POLITICAL COMMAND APJD
THE EXECUFIVE DECISION.
A JOINT STATEVENT WILL BE ISSUED ON THE DISCUSSIONS HELD
BETI.rEEN PRESIDENTS HAFIZ AL-ASAD AND ANWAR AS-`SADAT .
1 DEC) 14022 SSG /SAJ6 '' '
No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/08/18: LOC-HAK-238-3-24-8