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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-111-12-14-9
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 25, 2010
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: May 7, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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PLEASE CONVEY THE FOLLOWING ORAL MESSAcE FROM THE
SECRETARY TO THE CHINESE Ay,BASSADOR:
1. THE SECRETARY HAS BEEN MAKINo A MAjOR EFFORT To TRy TO
RECONCILE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SYR:A AND ISRAEL WITH A vrEw
To AcHIEVING A DISENGAGEMENT OF FORCES AGREEMENT BETWEEN THM
ON Ti-7. PATTERN OF THAT CONcLUDED BETWEEN ISRAEL AND EGYPT.
Z. THE PRINCIPAL ISSUE DIVIDING .SYRIA AND ISRAEL AT THIS
JuNcTURS, IS THE ?JESTIoN OF THE LINE OP DISENGAGEMENT, SyRIA IS
ISISTIN,';'THAT ISRAEL WITHDRAW ITS FORCES SuBSTANTIALLY WEST .OF THE
LI E THAT EXISTED ON OCTOBER 1q73. 'ISRAEL HAS RESISTED THIS
uP TO NOW RA5 NOT BEEN WIRING TO GO .BEyOND WITHDRAWAL FRom
THE c?ALIENT WHICH IT c&PTURED DURING THE OCTOBER 1973 WAR. WE
HviE Z;E2M MAKING 4 OETINED EFFORT WITH THE ISRAELIS IN THE BELIEF
7HAT THERE MUST BE wITHDRAwAL ON THE ISRAELI PART WEST
cl!7: THE oCTOSER 6 Lt INCLUDING KUNEITRA,-TF WHAT SYRIA OECIEVES
;TS .;14IMAL NECESS17IES ARE TO BE MET.
3. AS OUR cHINESE FRIENDS KNOW.r.THE SECRETARY HAS MA
s7L-vL TRIPS TO BOTH ISRAEL AND 'SYRIA AS WELL As VISITED A NUMBER
17'4 OTHE ARAB CAPITALS. ON THE BASIS OF OUR PAST CONVERSATIONS
mAva, INDICATED THr.T THE SOVIETS HAvE PEEN INSISTING ON A mnRE
DIRECT ROLE IN THE NEGOTIATIONS, EVEN THOUGH THIS IS NOT THF DESIRE
07 EITHER OF THE PARTIES.
4. oN THAT OCCASSION TH.E: SOVIET'.; URGED THAT THE SECREtARY
7 WITH GROMYKO iN DAMASCUS, WE REi:USED HIS PROPOSAL; FIN
T.-1 ADVICE OF .BOTH' SYRIA AND EGYPT WE KEPT ("WEN THE P05.5if3ILITY
AN INFORMAL MEETING COULD BE HEL) ELSEWHERE. THE sovIETs
!-.1-1,y PROPOSED SUCH A MEETING pE I-FLD IN CYPRUS, AND vE
To TUESDAY) MAY 7.,? OD BEFORE FHE ISRAELS.GIVE US THIR
LY75T CONCRETE IDEAS FOR ME TO TAKE 10 DAmASCUS ON WEDNFS.DAy.
?:s.KNOWN, THE SOVIETS FOR.
WANTED THIS MEETING WITH US LARGELY
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TO SH1 THE ARAB WORLD AND PEOPLE AT 113mE THEY ARE INVoLYE0
EN THE iZGQTIAT:11G PROCESS CURRENTLY 1\1 TRAIN BETWEEN THE PARTIES.
5. BEC.AuSE THE SECRETARY oio NOT HAVE THE ISRAELIIS LATEST
.POSITION AT TIME OF GROMyKO MEETING) TE SOVIET FOREIGN MINISTER
uNAaLe Tg INJECT HIMSELF IN ANY MEANINGFUL WAY.
6. ND NEW SUBSTANTIO DEVELOPMENTS OF ANY cONsEQUESNcES
E7cERGEO FROM THIS MEETING, THERE WERE NO DETAILED DISCUSSIoNS
OF- THE SPECIFICS OF A DISENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT.
7, SECRETARY KISSINGER FEELS THAT HE HAS MADE SOME PROGRESS
IN HIS DISCUSSIONS WITH THF ISRAELIS) DESPITE TH.OIFFICULT INTERNAL
SITUATIoN WHICH EXISTS HERE AT THE PRESENT TIME -- A SITUATIoN
'4HICH THE OLD GOVERNMENT IS ON ITS WAY OUT AND IS RELUCT'ANT
TO TAKE THE NECESSARy DECISIONS) AND A NEW 'GOVERNMENT WITHouT
.!,TH3RITi' IS ON ITS WAY IN,
WARM REGARDS.
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