Plan to withdraw troops
NZPA-Reuter Washington
An operational plan is being worked out to enable | Israel to withdraw its troops | from Lebanon, according to J a senior State Department j official. Talks on the subject may begin this week between Israel and Lebanon, with United States participation, the official told reporters accompanying the Secretary of State, Mr George Shultz home yesterday from a twoday trip to Canada. Israel thought that it would be a good idea for the United States to take part in the negotiations, he said. The official, speaking on condition that he was not identified, said that a special | American envoy, Morris Draper, had been sent to the Middle East to work out details of the talks.
But Mr Draper became ill in London and it was possible be might be replaced by another American emissary, said the official.
Earlier Mr Shultz told Canadian editors in Ottawa that the Reagan Administration’s objective was to get all foreign forces — Israeli, Syrian and Palestinian — out of Lebanon by the end of the year.
The arrangements to be worked out include meeting Israel’s security concerns along its northern border with Lebanon where Palestinian guerrillas used to be based. Israel has insisted that it would not accept United Nations interim forces in Lebanon in the border security role. Lebanon, on the other hand, strongly objects to Israeli suggestions that the Christian militia leader, Saad
Haddad, whose forces operated in southern Lebanon, could do the job.
The official said that various ideas were being studied, but he had mentioned only the possibility that the 3000man multinational peacekeeping force now in Lebanon might be redeployed later along the highway leading from Beirut to Damascus.
Mr Shultz has spoken of an expanded role for the international force, now comprising United States, French and Italian troops, but the senior official said that Washington had nd specific numbers in mind. Britain and Greece, among others, have indicated that they were willing to contribute to the multinational force. The Reagan Administration had not made a commitment to send more troops in addition to the 1000 al-
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