Vance fight uphill
NZPA-Reuter Amman The United States Secretary of State (Mr Cyrus (Vance) will face an uphill [fight when he asks Saudi Arabia to change its mind land support the Camp David [Middle East agreements.
The attitude of the con!servative, oil-rich State could be crucial to the fate of the two Israeli-Egyptian [accords. Its first reaction | was to reject the Camp ! David peace formula as “an [unacceptable formula for a definitive peace.”
' The Saudis also attacked; • the absence of a clear Israeli; (commitment to withdraw! from al! occupied Arab terri- j • tories. including Jerusalem,! land the omission of a role! I for the Palestine Liberation ! Organisation. Mr Vance hopes at least; to persuade Saudi leaders to I follow the example of Jor- ! dan’s King Hussein and give I i very serious consideration to ! the United States appeal to ,endorse the accords. ! On the first day of a hur-l ried mission that will also take him to Syria. Mr Vance had more than two hours of talks with the Jordanian monarch during which he outlined the purposes and implementation of the accords. One is a general Middle East peace framework, and the second a framework for an Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. As financial backer for Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon, as keeper of the Muslim Holy Places, and as a driving force behind Arab unity, Saudi Arabia has views that carry enormous weight.
Without Saudi approval, King Hussein would probably not join the peace negotiations with Israel, Egypt, and the Palestinians to settle the future of Jordanian territories captured by Israel in 1967, United States sources say.
King Khalid and Crown Prince Fahd are expected to I concentrate on the PalestinI ian and territorial issues, • and on Jerusalem.
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