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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nAmb. Rabin/Kissinger\n1:31 p. m.\n3/2/71\nK: I wanted to check on one thing that has been mentioned to me and I want to\nbe sure I understood your thought. I was told on the basis of your conversation\nwith Sisco yesterday that you are prepared to accept some 4-power statement.\nIs that true.\nR: I just have read to Joe Sisco the summary of the talk between the PM and\nZurhellen, your representative in Israel since Amb. Barber is ill. What she\nsaid because I told Sisco two hours ago is that by no means it is allowed in the\n4 powers in the last meeting today a conseasus of criticism will be extablished\nand the U. S. will give a hand to it.\nK: What if we do it anyway?\nR: You ask what our position is and we want to explain it. Once such a con-\nsensus will criticize the next Israeli move will be interpreted by Eygpt as\nbacking of thier refusal to conduct any negotiations on territorial or any issue\nand as a result a very severe crisis will come into being. So Zurhellen, your\nrepresentative in Israel, will clarify this position in the 4-power meeting in\nNY and Washington. Therefore, I read to Joe Sisco the following and explained\nit to him. Second, we said the PM wants the U.S. to take the following position\nin the next meeting of the 4. First, in accordance WX to what Pres. Nixon\npromisedx Israel and listed in his lastspeech in public, the talks are to be\nconducted in a free way without interference from outside. Second, that the\nU.S. will mention that now the parties have defined the options. Third, that\nthe parties have to conduct negotiations, descussions and talks without pre -\nconditions. Fourth, tha t the U.S. will mention that Egypt is ready to enter\ninto peace agreements with Israel and Israel is ready to do the same.\nK: I understand.\nR: The fifth point that now that every side has defined it's position there's a\nneed of the conditions of the decisions to bring closer the two & sides and finally,\nto reach an agreement. Sisco yesterday said that there will be no public\nstatement. He said that voluntarily. I said I am surprised there's any need\nfor a statement on your part. Thant has not submitted a report before the\nUN Security Council SO I don't know what the U.S. will try to do something\nwithout knowing what the position are of those responsible for conducting the\ntalks. I said that you have to understand I talked only about the public\nstatement.\nK: He must have misunderstood. He seemed to think you were ready to\naccept a 4-power statement.\nR: Not at all. Sisco said after that tat they will consider and give greater\nthought to what the Prime Minister has said but he doesn't see that they would be"
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