SENATOR PERCY'S MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER BADRAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B00148R000300770047-9
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: January 2, 1982
• Content Type: CABLE

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2. SUMMARbi SENATUR PERCY, ACCOMPANIED BY
AMBASSADOR VIETS,MET W17HH PRIift MINISTER
M.UDAk UAUkAN AND FUkETGN MINISTER KASIM
DECEMaEk 31. JORDAN CONTINUES TO SUPPORT
UoN. HESOLUTIUN 242, 13AOPAN SAID, bUT AFTER
THE 7,3 wAk AND THE RABAT SUMMIT IT IS NU
LONGER SUFFICIENT. PALESTINIANS MUST BE
PA-t1LCIPANTS IN ANY SETTLEMENT. HE SUPPORTED
AN INI kNATIUNNL CONFERENCE ON THE MIDDLE.
EAST TU 1NCLUOt THE USSR, EUROPEANS, U.S.
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AND UTHER CONCERNED PARTIES. 13ADRAN
CRITIC11ED THE SIGNING OF THE MUU.
ANNEXATIUN OF THE GOLAN. EXTRADITION OF
ABU EAIN AND THE U.5. VOTE ON THE MED-DEAD
CANAL AS ACTS WHICH STRENGTHENED THE
RADICALS POSITION AGAINST THE U.S. AND PUT
THE UNITED %IAIES* FRIENDSIN A DIFFICULT
P.USITION. SENATOR PERCY RESPONDED SAYING
THAT THE MUU AS A SIGNAL TO MOSCOW WHICH
WOULD REMOVE SLIME OF THE REASONS FOR
ISRAELI 1NStCUW1TY9 THE U.S. wUULD OFFER
SIMILAR AGREEMENTS TO JORDAN AND OTHER
ARAB COUNTRIES. HE REMINDED BADRAN OF
PRESIDENT kEA(aAN'S AND HIS OWN CONDEMNATION
OF THE (,ULAN ANIVEXA71ON AND DREW A
DISTINCTION BETWEEN SANCTIONS AGAINST THE
USSR AND AGAINST ISRAEL. HE EXPLAINED HIS
FIRM BELIEF THAT THE ABU FAIN CASE WAS
HANDLED PROPERLY AND SAID HE HAD BEEN ASSURED
BY PRIME MINISTER BEGIN THAT ABU EAIN WOULD BE
TREATED FAIRLY.. END SUMMARY.
30 SENATOR PEkCY. ACCOMPANIED BY AMBASSADOR
VIETS, STAFF MEMBERS SANDERS AND BANNERMAN
AND PULOFF I.MBk1E (NOTETAKER), MET WITH
PRIME MINISTER MUDAP BADRAN AND FOREIGN
MINISTER MARwAN AL-KASIM. BADRAN REVIEWED
FOR i,ENATGk PERC.Y JORDAN'S POSITION UN-'THE
MIDDLE EAST NEGOTIATIONS. JURUAN, HE SAID,
IN 19b7 SUPPORTED U.N. kESOLUTION242 AND
CONTINUES TU SuPPOPT 11 AS .1 HE ONLY INTFR-
NAI.IUNAL DUCUMkNT WHICH COULD URIhG ABOUT
-A SETTLEMMENT. AFTER 15 YEARS, HU*EVEk, THE
~cESULUTIUN 15 NU LONGER SUFFICIENT TU_ PRO'IUE
A JUSI ANiu CUMPwEMENSIVE PEACE BECAUSE MANY
EVENTS HAD TAKEN PLACE SINCE THAT DATE,
ESPECIALLY TMk 1973 WAR AND THE 1974 RAaAT
SUMMIT. THE RABAT SUMMIT MADE IT IMPERATIVE
THAT THE PALESTINIANS, REPRESENTED BY THE
PLO, BE PARTICIPANTS IN ANY SETTLEMENT.
SINCE kAbAT s JU?