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Sinai. Israel this week will submit to Egypt a detailed timetable for the initial withdrawal of its forces from the Sinai Peninsula. Israeli troops will pull back until, nine months after the signing of the treaty, they are all positioned east of a line running from El Arish to Ras Muhammad, the southernmost tip of the Sinai. Over a three year period, Israel will remove its military forces and settlers from all of the Sinai. Most of the area will be demilitarized; Egypt can station only a single division on the peninsula and only within 31 miles of the Suez...
Egyptian-Israeli Relations. One month after the Israeli forces have moved behind the El Arish-Ras Muhammad line, both countries will exchange ambassadors and establish normal diplomatic relations. Egypt will end its economic boycott of Israel and grant Israeli ships and cargoes the right of passage through the Suez Canal. Israel will be permitted to buy oil from the Sinai fields that will be returned to Egypt. If Israel runs short of oil during the next 15 years, the U.S. has promised to make up the difference. Egypt and Israel will open their borders to each other's citizens...
...Alexandria, Carter was met by the largest, most enthusiastic crowd of the Egyptian visit. An estimated 1 million people lined the 3½-mile drive along the Mediterranean Sea wall from the railway station to Ras el Tin Palace, where the Carters stayed. That night Sadat was host at a gala state dinner...
...three early warning stations and about 1,000 miles of roads. Jerusalem continued to develop the Sinai even after the disengagement agreements of 1974 and 1975, under which the Israelis pulled back from the Suez Canal, the Egyptians reduced their forces in the area, and the Israelis returned the Ras Sudr and Abu Rudeis oilfields to Egyptian control...
...following matters are agreed between the parties: The full exercise of Egyptian sovereignty up to the internationally recognized border between Egypt and mandated Palestine; the withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from the Sinai: the use of airfields left by the Israelis near El Arish, Rafah, Ras en Naqband, Sharm el Sheikh for civilian purposes only, including commercial use by all nations; the right of free passage of ships of Israel through the Gulf of Suez and the Suez Canal...After a peace treaty is signed, and after the interim withdrawal is complete, normal relations will be established between Egypt...