LINKING THE MIDDLE EAST NUCLEAR WEAPONS FREE ZONE TO THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R002100110026-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 20, 2008
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: October 31, 1981
• Content Type: MEMO

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
ACTION MEMORANDUM
'81 NOV -3 P 6 :10 s, ,s a,r `i
TO The Secretary
FROM : NEA - Nicholas A. V
PM - Richard Burt
SUBJECT s= Linki-ng the 'Middle East
Free Zone to the Middle
Nuclear Weapons.
East Peace Process
Whether the Middle East Nuclear Weapons Free
Zone (N EENWFZ ). should be linked to the Middle East
Peace Process, as Gene Rostow Would like.
ESSENTIAL FACTS
Gene Ros tow has sent you a personal memorandum
detailing his reasons for ixncluding.a reference to
the Middle East Peace Process as a preamble in this
year's Egyptian draft -resolution on the MENTi Z to be .
put before the UNGA soon. The Egyptians have resisted '
this.
ACDAbelieves such a reference will strengthen
our insistence that' the MENWF Z must be reached through
"agreement" of the parties, as Israel wants.
NEA and PM agree that we must-insist on areference
to "agreement" in the Egyptian resolution. We also have
no objection to general references to peace and security
in the Middle East and elsewhere. However, we believe
there should be no linkage, explicit or implied,.between
the MENWFZ and the Peace Process. Our language, however.
innocuous on the surface, will be closely scrutinized
for the intentions thought to lie underneath. Any such.
State Dept. review completed.
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connection-risks-suggesting to the Egyptians and
others that the MENWFZ has become an ingredient of
the Peace Process, along with autonomy talks, the
Palestinian problem, etc; this would clearly over-
burden the already fragile Peace Process. At the
same-time, other Arab governments are likely to react
against any linkage of MENWFZ with a Peace Process
they are on record as opposing; thus it builds another
impediment to consideration of MENWFZ by a wider
audience -in-the. Middle East region.. .
RECOPLM.NDATION (also favored by 10)
That we avoid any suggestion of. a. linkage
between MENTIFZ and the Middle East Peace Process
in our instructions to USUN.
Approve Disapprove
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Clearances: NEA:PDConstable
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