Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

NLT (Navel Aide) 346 OFFICE OF DECLASSIFIED THE SECRETARY OF STATE E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 WASHINGTON State Dept. DEB NLT, Date 9-9-8 Guidelines, March 6, 1982 T April 2, 1952 By TOP SECRET SECURITY INF ORMA TION SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS EGYPT Ambassador Gifford delivered to Mr. Eden yesterday the Secre- tary's personal message concerning Egypt in which he urged immediate resumption of negotiations on the basis of Great Britain's with- drawal of British troops from the Canal Zone and her recognition of Farouk as "King of the Sudan" in return for an Egyptian pledge to cooperate in the Middle East Command and to assure a free plebiscite to the Sudanese. Am- bassador Gifford says that Eden received the message in good part but gave the impression that he did not find anything new in it that his government had not already considered. Eden said he thought it would prove impossible to explain adequately to the Sudanese the symbolic nature of the King's title and the fact that its recognition would be conditioned on agreement by the Egyptians to the exercise by the Sudanese of full, free and prompt self- determination. Eden said that his government had also thought of a published agenda for the Anglo-Egyptian talks in place of a joint public statement, but during the past day or two the British and the Egyptians seemed to be making progress on a joint statement which would be the basis for negotiations. KASHMIR Dr. Graham of the UN Kashmir Commission has informed us from Geneva that he is unwilling to postpone the submission of his report to the Security Council or return to the subcontinent, as we had suggested, unless he obtains assurances beforehand that the position of the parties has changed substantially since his departure from Karachi last week and that they are now prepared -to take additional forward steps toward agreement of the quantum of troops and the plebiscite administrator. Graham said that upon his arrival in New York and before officially submitting the re- - port he would meet with representatives of India and Pakistan and convey to them his suggestions for further negotiations. If the parties should agree to these suggestions Dr. Graham would be glad to pursue the negotiations with the two governments and in his letter submitting the report to the Security Council he would mention that the negotiations were continuing within the lines set forth in the report and under the terms of reference given to Graham by the Security Council. We are planning a possible diplomatic appeal to the two parties to use the opportunity in New York after Dr. Graham's return and prior to his submission of the report for further negotiations and possible con- cessions on the two outstanding points of disagreement. TOP SEGRET SECURITY INF ORMATION