FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE IN BEIRUT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-352-5-790-9
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2010
• Sequence Number: 790
• Publication Date: October 21, 1974
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/09/08: LOC-HAK-352-5-790-9
BHE^IS DUE TO LEAVE BEIRUT FOR AMMAN LATER TODAY AT THE CONCLUSION Of
SPEAKER OF THE LEBANESE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES AND THE PRIME MRNIcTEti
THE FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER MET TODAY WITH YASIP 'ARAFAT THE
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BETWEEN THE ARABS AND EUROPE.
THE FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER EXPRESSED HIS COUNTRY'S READINESS
170 PARTICIPATE WITH THE ARAB COUNTRIES IN INCREASING C
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FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE IN BEIRUT
IL IT Y ON T HE WUKLD PLANE TO ENABLE THEM TO SUBMIT THEIR
TO KEEP VIOLENCE AWAY FROM THE AREA IS TO GIVE THE PARTIES
RESPONSIB CONCER NED
HE ADDED THAT FRANCE CONSIDERS IT THE RIGHT OF ALL THE STATES IN
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FUNDAMENT AL SUBJECTS T HAT MUST BE DEALT W I T H I N T HEM MIDDLE EASTT AREA.
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SAUVAGNARGUES HAS SA ID T HAT I HE PALESTINIAN PROBLEM IS
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(TEXT) BEIRUT, 21 OCTOBER-aFRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER E
Alai ECONOMIC CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE OIL-PRODUCING-COUNTRIES,. HE SAID
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HE- RULED OUT THE POSSIBIt. IT Y THAT THE UNITED STATES W. -LAUNCH..
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ER Y USEFUL AND AS HAVING LEFT A GOOD IMPRESSION.
SAUVAGNARGUES DESO BED HIS MEETING WITH YASIR 'ARAFAT THIS MORNING
AS BE I N
SPEAKING AT A PRESS CONFERENCE HE HELD HERE THIS AFTERNOON
F-110 A D t AL QG A S THE ONLY SOLUTION FOR ALL THE
PROBLEMS AMONG THE OIL-FR 00 UCING AND CONSUMING COUNTRIES.
FOR PROTECT I N G ITS TERR IT OR Y ANO SOVERE IGNT Y, BUT SAID T HAT THERE
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C~ HE DENIED REPORT S T HAT LEBANON REQUESTED ANY FRENCH GUARANTEES
~1 ( ASKED HIS OPINION ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF FORMING A PALESTINIAN
STATE, THE FOREIGN MINISTER MERELY SAID T HAT IT IS PRFUAT1IQF_
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PLO CHAIRMAN 'ARAFAT WARNS OF FIFTH WAR WITH ISRAEL
BE2 11300 BAGHDAD INA IN ARABIC 0950 GMT 21 OCT 74 BE
(TEXT) CAIRO, 2 1 OCTOBER--PLO EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN
YASIR ' ARAFAT HAS SAID THAT HE SEES NO POSSIBILITY OF A
r PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
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IN A STATEMENT PUBLISHED IN THE EGYPT IAN WEEILY ROSE AL-YUSUF
TODAY, 'ARAFAT SAID THAT HE SAW NO ALTERNATIVE T- A
FIFTH WAR WITH ISRAEL. HE WOULD CONTINUE TO SOUND THE
AL ARM SO T HAT OUR NAT ION WOULD NOT BE SUR PR I SED B Y A NEW
ISRAELI ATTACK, HE ADDED.
'ARAFAT SAID THAT THE SETTLEMENT OF THE MIDDLE EAST PROBLEM
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NOTHING HAD HAPPENED. IF T HERE HAD BEEN ANY INTENT ION TO REACH A
SETTLEMENT, SOMETHING WOULD HAVE HAPPENED.
'ARAFAT ASSERTED THAT THE U. S.-JORDANIAN" ISRAELI PLAN
CO NT INUED TO STRIVE TO PLACE OUR PEOPLE IN HASHIMITE SHACKLES.
THIS WAS BEING ATTEMPTED UNDER VARIOUS SLOGANS SUCH Af: "REALISM
0 AND REASON," "ONE HALF IS BETTER THAN NOT HI ~IG,`~ AND "BETTER
THE JORDANIAN BOOT THAN THE ISRAELI.'
'ARAFAT SAID** WE MUST RECALL THAT THE OCTOBER WAR BROUGHT ABOUT
THE DOWNFALL OF CERTAIN PERSONALITIES IN ISRAEL BUT IT 010 NOT
00 AWAY WITH THE ZIONIST EXPANSIONIST PROGRAM, WHICH IS NOW SElNG
Q ADAPTED TO THE NEW SITUATION CREATED BY THE OCTOBER WAR UNTIL SUCK
TIME AS ITS EFFECTS CAN BE FINALLY REMOVED THROUGH POLITICAL,
DIPLOMATIC AND, EVENTUALLY, MILITARY MEANS.
HE ADDED : THE AGREEMENT CONCLUDED BETWEEN THE UNITED
STATES ANA ISRAEL DURING RABIN'S RECENT VISIT HAS ONCE AGAIN 11
? RACED DEALINGS BETWEEN THEM ON THE BASIS THAT ISRAEL'S EXISTENCE;;
IS IMPORTANT TO U.S. INTERESTS IN THE AREA AND THAT THIS CAN BE':.'
ACHIEVED ON. Y THROUGH THE EXISTENCE OF A "STRONG, DETERENT" ISRAEL.
THIS IN ITSELF DESTROYS THE THEORY OF "SUBSTITUTE AMERICAN
:DISGUISES, UPHELD, UNFORTUNATELY, BY CERTAIN ARAB REGIMES WHICH
;THINK THAT THROUGH THEIR FRIENDSHIP, THE UNITED STATES CAN
DISPENSE WITH ITS DEPENDENCE ON ISRAEL.
'ARAFAT LAUDED THE OCTOBER WAR BUT SAID THAT THE ARABS, FOR
Q VARIOUS REASONS, HAD BEEN UNABLE SO FAR TO BENEFIT FULLY FROM
ITS OUT COME. ON THE CONTRARY, THE ENEMY HAD BEEN ABLE-TO BENEFIT
FROM CERTAIN ACT IONS THAT TOOK PLACE AFTER IT. MOREOVER, NEW
TRENDS BEARING THE AMER I CAN STAMP HAD APPEARED I N THE
AREA. THESE TRENDS EXPOSED THE REAL ROLE THE UNITED STATES WAS
PLAYING AS WELL AS ITS CONT INUEO ATTEMPTS TO IMPEDE ARAB
FROGRE SS TOWARD REAPING ALL THE FRUITS OF THE OCTOBER WAR.
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No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/09/08: LOC-HAK-352-5-790-9