Hussein asked to join talks
NZPA-Reuter Washington
President Carter will urge a reluctant King Hussein to join the Israeli-Egyptian peace talks when the Jordanian monarch arrives today for his first visit to Washington since the Camp David agreement, was signed.
The King was not consulted before the 1978 summit meeting between the Egyptian President (Mr Anwar Sadat) and the Israeli Prime Minister (Mr Menachem Begin) that produced the Camp David agreement and he has refused to become involved in the peace talks.
Only last April he declined to come to Washington after learning that his proposed visit then would be scheduled between Mr Carter’s
separate talks with Mr Sadat and Mr Begin. Now Mr Carter evidently feels the time is right for King Hussein to join the peace negotiations. The President said in an interview at the week-end that he would use all his persuasive power during two days of talks beginning tomorrow .to encourage the King to be constructive in bringing about a comprehensive peace. “I’ll try to convince him that the best procedure for doing this is in accordance with the Camp David accords,” he told Jewish journalists invited to the White House.
Egypt is not prepared to make any more-compromises in the peace talks, the Egyptian Minister of State for
Foreign Affairs (Dr Boutros Boutros Ghali) has said in an interview. Dr Ghali told the West German magazine, “Der Spiegel,” that the Israeli Government was contravening both the spirit and the letter of the Camp David accords.
Asked if Egypt would continue to make compromises in the negotiation next month to attempt to break the deadlock on Palestinian
autonomy, Dr Ghali said: “That is out of the question. Egypt has no more room for compromises.
“Our principle is clear: we insist on the fulfilment of the Camp David peace accords and demand that Israel holds to these agreements. We note with regret that the present Israeli Government contravenes both the letter and the spirit of the Camp David accords,” he said.
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