EGYPT ASKS FOR POSITIVE STAND BY USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-131-7-1-7
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 21, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 19, 1975
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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(TEXT) DEPUTY PR IME MINISTER AND FOREIGN MINISTER ISMA' IL.
FAHMI WILL BEGIN HIS TAL KS WIT H T HE SOVIET LEADERS TODAY, AFTER
HIS ARR IVAL IN THE FR IEN)L Y SOVIET UNION. THE EGYPT IAN FOREIGN
MINISTER'S VISIT T0THE SOVIET UNION CO0S DURING A CRITICAL
STAGE I N THE M I D D L E EAST , A N 7 I T S PRIME CONCERN I S
BILATERAL RELAT IONS BETYEEN THE TWO FR IENrL Y COUNTRIES AND THE CONY[;.
OF THE GENEVA CONFERENCE. THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THIS VISIT,
AT THIS T IME IN PART ICULAR, A4) THE TALKS WHICH W1LL TAKE PL A CE
WIUL HAVE A SPECIAL EFFECT ON DEVELOPING SOVIET-EGYPT IAN RELAT IONS
AND ON THE COORD INAT ION OF STA!`DDSWITHREGARD TO THE GENEVA
CONFERENCE.
TIE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE 23 JULY REVOL UT ION AND IT S
LIBERATION P R I N C I F L ES AT THE SOVIET UNION HAS BEEN ANO WILL CONTINUE
TO BE A RELAT IONSHIP OF FR INCIFLES AND VALUES AND IS RULED BY
FR IEND SHIP EVEN AT THE MOST CR IT ICIAL TIMES. PERHAPS THE MOST
SIGNIFICAN'Y~T HIND T HAT PORTRAYS THE ESSENCE, AND NOT THE APPEARANCE
OF THE RELAT IONSHIP BETWEEN OUR SELVES AND THE SOVIET UNION IS THE
CRISIS OF DOING WIT HOUT THE SOVIET EXPERTS, THE CRISIS WIT; CH PRES 1i
AS- SA9AT RIGHTLY TERMED "A PAUSE WIT H A FRIEND." YES, A ER IEN) IN
THE CONCEPT OF FRIEND SHIP AS UNDERSTOOD BY FREE PEOPLE. IT IS
A HR IEN) SHIP ABOVE PER SONAL I NT ER E ST 5; IT IS BASED ON PR I N CI PLE S, 0ol
COMMON INTERESTS AND ON CLEAR STAN) S,
NOT,. FOR ONE MOMENT HAVE WE FOR GOTTEN THE SOVIET UNION' S
STANDS CONCERNING OUR LEGIT IMATE R IGHT : ITS STAND IN ARMING
US; IT S STAND IN OUR CR ISE5; IT S STAB) CONCERNING OUR LEGITIMATE
ASPIRAT IONS TO REGAIN OUR TERR IT OR Y APB RIGHT AND TO DEVELOP
OUR SOCIALIST COMMUNIT Y. NOR HAS T F'E SOVIET UNION FORGOTTEN OUR
STAND ING UP TO THE SPHERES OF INFLUENCE Ail:) TO THE MILITARY BASES
SCATTERED AROU+d) THE SOVIET UNION IN THE DAYS OF THE COLD WAR;
AL SO OUR STRUGGLE AGAINST ALL IANCES A+'D OUR CONFRO+N1'AT IC)N 'AiTfl
POLAR I Z AT 10N INJ THE I!TTERFST OF BOTH OF THE TOO CAMPS, AND
HOW MUCH ALL T HIS HA S COST US, 'EGYPT HAS HAD T HE HONOR OF "A Ki NG
A BIG CONTR IBUf I ON T 0 HOIST ING T HE BANNER OF NONAL INEMEN WHI CH
EMBRACED THE W HOLE OF T HE T HIRD WORD, AN] THUS CONTR IfugUTEF) TG
A LARGE EXTENT TO BL UNIT ING THE EDGE OF THE COLD VAR AND ALSO Of
POLAR IZAT ION AND ENCIR CLEMENT. PERHAPS NONALINEMENT
CO NT R IBUTED , T OCET HER a IT H OT HER CHANGES, TO REPLACI NG WAR BETWEN
THE TWO GIANTS BY DETENTE.
T HE PAT H OF L IDERAT ION! NHIGH REVOL_UT IONAR Y EGYPT PUB SUED AS THE
VANGUARD OF THE 0 HC_ E OF T HE T [IRO WORLD WAS THE CAUSE OF OUR SUFFER K:
IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST COL ONIAL.ISV AR) OF THE PRICE WE HAVE PAID
IN THIS RESPECT. W 0rT f' OVV 1 ?): 'T OF T HE SE fFRE T HE 195 6
TRIPARTITE PART PLOT AID THE 1967 Z f PER 1AL I T
FL, OT. YE S, T HE PITY OF L i `=" P .i i ONi WA S T HE. CAUSE OF ALL T HI S
BUT AT T HE SAME T IMF IT WAS T HE CAUSE T HAT BROUGHT TO A HALT
TO THE POLAR 1ZAT ION FEVER 'd HI CH, FAD IT SPRE.AO,,MIGHT HAVE LLD,,
MANKIND TO A CLASH BETWEEN T HE. TWO SUPER PfN{feu -
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OUR RELAT IONSHIP WIT H T HE SOVIET UNION9 THEREFORE, HAS BEE N
A RELAT IONSHIP OF GIVE AND TAKE T HAT DER IVES FROM DEEP-ROOTED
PR INCIPLES WHICH D0 ITT ALTER CR CHANGE. BUT HOW NECESSARY
ITTIS FOR THE COMRADES IN RR INCI ft ES TO BE FRANK WITH ONE ANOTHER !
IN THIS RESPECT, WE SHOULD LIKE TO MENTION THE ARAB
CAUSE--A CAUSE OF R IGET AND LEGITIMACY IN STAN INC UP TO T HE
EXPANSIONIST AND CCLON17ING Z IONIST AMBIT IONS. IT IS THE
CAUSE O F AN A R A B NAT 101 W H I C H SEEKS NO MORE T H A N I T S
USURPED TERR IT OR Y AND T HE R IGHt OF THE PALEST I NIAN PEOftE TO SET
UP THEIR HOYELA^D AID TO DECIDE STAND UP TO AN ISRAEL I ~~. UBBGR ^dE-SS THEIR 0"dN FUTURE AP.fD AL SO TO
THE UN RESOLUT IONS A1) T HE TWO RESOLUVHI CH TIONSUW SUEY IMPLEMENT GATATS IO ALL
THE TWO SUPERPOWERS GUARANTEED : T HE 1967 RESOLUTION
UT ION
NO. 242 ANO THE 1973 RESCL UT ION NO. 338.
T HIS IS THE :'WHOLE ISSUE.
WE FIRMLY EEL IEVE T HAT AN HONEST FR TEND DOES NOT BURDEN HIS
BIGGER FRIEND BY ASKING T WC I
P
OSSIBLE: NOR DOES HE ASK FOR
A N YT H I NO W H I CH M
IS UM AWFUL. BUT THEN ABSOLUTE
THE SIDE OF THE FRIEND WHO ASKS THAT HIS FIR IENO ADOPTEASNOBLE STAND- -
THIS IS SOMET HING THAT CANNOT BE RE FUSED. WE SAY ALL THIS
KNOW I NO T HAT NOT EVEN AT THE MOST OR IT I CAL HOURS WE
EXPER IENCEO D ID WE ASK ANYBOJ Y--NO MATTER HOW STRONG HIS FR IEN)SHIP-
T0TL IBERATE OUR LAN) Fat U S. N OR HAVE VIE ASKED FOR ANY 4 ,?
EM BAR ASSE S OR INVOLVES OUR FR IE^D, AS ISRAEL DOES >VITH T'H~TIOrs Hl Chi
UNITED St ATE S. ;WHAT WE ASK, AND THIS IS DICTATED BY FRIENDSHIP,
IS A POSIT IVE STAND ON T HE SIDE OF OUR ESTABL I SHED AND R IGHT. IN THIS CONNECT ION, PRESIDENT AS~-SADAT SAIDLIGASKMFROM TEE
SOVIETS NORMAL TREATMENT
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H AS THEY GAVE
T HE FACT T HAT FOR 14 M0NT HS T HE Y D ID NOT REPLACEAOUR ITEAP0NSOK
LAST JANUARY THEY STARTED TO SHIP TO US THE ARMS LISTED I N THE
1973- 1974 AGREEMENT S. WE HAVE ALSO REQUESTED
FROM OUR SOVIET FRIENDS S A GRACE PER 100 WITH REGARD TO THEIR LOANS,
JUST AS THEY GRANTED Sit IA. THIS IS BECAUSE WE ARE (WORD
IN) IST INCT) OF THE BATTLE AND ARE BEING EXHAUSTED ECONOMICALLY;
THERE I S ALSO WORLD I NFL AT ION.
CM ORE)
20 APR 01572 TEF/IAA
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