Word: summits
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...mention Washington and Moscow-there were worries and frowns about the moves that are following Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's historic visit to Israel. To keep alive the hopes that blossomed with his dramatic initiative, Sadat invited all the parties concerned, including Israel, to a Cairo summit to discuss and perhaps resolve issues standing in the way of a reconvened Geneva peace conference, including the thorny matter of Palestinian representation. But was Sadat moving too far and too fast? Last week there were grave fears that his proposed summit would not only accomplish little, it might also further split...
...Hafez Assad, the Soviet Union, the Palestine Liberation Organization and the main rejection-front states, Iraq, Libya and Algeria. Last week the anti-Sadat forces gathered in Tripoli at the behest of Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, who called the participants the "steadfast states." (Others dubbed the conference the "sorehead summit.") A second meeting of the rejectionists is supposed to take place in Baghdad...
...other prospective guests also agreed-somewhat reluctantly-to attend the Cairo summit. U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim said his organization would be represented by Finnish General Ensio Siilasvuo, chief of U.N. peace-keeping operations in the Middle East. Since he expected that the Cairo conference would have "limited participation," Waldheim suggested yet another preparatory conference under U.N. auspices. Israel said it would not attend, primarily because the P.L.O. was also invited. But other Arab states were more receptive to the idea, as was the Soviet Union. That raised the intriguing prospect that Israel and the U.S. might eventually stand...
...Washington press conference last week, President Carter described the new Israeli-Egyptian contacts as "a historic breakthrough" toward peace and said the U.S. would send a representative -Assistant Secretary of State Alfred Atherton-to Sadat's Cairo summit. The tone of Carter's endorsement suggested to some that he was seeking to counter press criticism that Washington, now in the unaccustomed position of being a bystander to Middle Eastern events rather than the architect of them, was discouraging rather than helping Sadat's peace initiative...
Prime Minister Mamhoud Salem, who announced the decision to the Egyptian parliament, said the countries had tried to stir up opposition to Sadat's peace initiatives by helping to arrange last weekend's summit of Arab states who have taken a firm line against recognition of Israel...