Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main obstacle is finding the right language for the thorniest problem of all: the "linkage" between the treaty and further negotiations toward a wider peace between Israel and its other Arab neighbors. In the opinion of U.S. diplomats, the negotiators have actually had an agreement on a linkage formula for at least two weeks, but things seem to come unstuck when the delegations return home to seek the approval of their governments. Two weeks ago, for example, Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, who was on a visit to the U.S. and Canada, sent Defense Minister Ezer Weizman back to Jerusalem...
...President Sadat's, nor Premier Begin's, that one of the premises for the Camp David negotiations was a comprehensive peace settlement." In fact, the President continued, Begin himself had said that he did not seek merely a separate peace treaty. But when the latest draft of the tentative agreement was referred to the governments back home, said Carter, "sometimes the work that has been done is partially undone...
...second issue holding up the Washington negotiations concerns Sinai oil. With unrest spreading in Iran, which supplies 40% of Israel's oil, Jerusalem wants to make sure it has an ironclad agreement to buy Sinai oil from Egypt. It also wants the Neptune Oil Co., a U.S. firm that currently has an Israeli contract to pump oil in the Sinai, to continue to do so. Egypt has refused to deal with Neptune, arguing that the company is working the Sinai fields illegally. Complicating these negotiations is the fact that they are tied to simultaneous bargaining over Israeli troop withdrawal from...
...negotiators are somewhat annoyed at Israeli attempts to delay any agreement on the treaty until the U.S. has formally agreed to pay the full cost of the withdrawal, including replacement of the two big Sinai airfields. "This issue has nothing to do with the Israeli negotiations with Egypt," complained an American involved in the talks. "We didn't ask them to build those two Sinai airfields or put in all that sophisticated intelligence equipment. They may balk, but they'd better realize that there's not much receptivity in the U.S. to the idea of our footing the bill...
...balance, it seemed likely that the Egyptians and the Israelis would be able to resolve their remaining differences in time to sign the treaty by Dec. 17, the deadline agreed upon at Camp David. When agreement is reached, the principals are expected to celebrate the historic occasion by staging twin ceremonies in Cairo and Jerusalem. In the meantime, however, the worrisome final business of linkage must somehow be settled...