KOSYGIN REPORTEDLY VISITING SYRIA
Document Type:
CREST [1]
Collection:
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
LOC-HAK-186-2-25-6
Release Decision:
RIFLIM
Original Classification:
K
Document Page Count:
1
Document Creation Date:
January 11, 2017
Document Release Date:
August 2, 2010
Sequence Number:
25
Case Number:
Publication Date:
October 19, 1973
Content Type:
OPEN SOURCE
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No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/08/02: LOC-HAK-186-2-25-6
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KOSYGIN REPORTEDLY VISITING SYRIA
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(EXCERPTS) CAIRO--AFTER A 3-DAY STAY IN CAIRO, WHICH WAS
OFFICIALLY HELD IN SECRECY ALThOUGts IT WAS KNOWN "UNOFFICIALLY,"
SOVIET PREMIER ALEKSEY KOSYGIN LEFT CAIRO LATE LAST NIGHT
AFTER SEVERAL MEETING WITrt PRESIDENT AL-SADAT AND OTHER EGYPTIAN
LEADERS. IT IS ASSUMED ThE HIGH SOVIET GUEST LEFT FROM MERE BY
AIR FOR DAMASCUS FOR
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ALKS WITH SYRIAN PRESIDENT ASAD.
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MIDEAST-SOVIET
MOSCOW, OCT 19, RE!JTER -- SOVIET OF"ICIALS REMAINED
ISILENT TODAY ON THE MOVEMENTS 0F' PRI'"E: MINISTER ALEXEI KOSYGIN AS
11SPECULA.T ICN GREW THAT HE MAY HAVE GONE FROM CAIRO TO
`DAM 7H S PEEN' O SIGN THAT KOSYGIN HAS ARRIVED
BACK IN MOSCOW AFTER HIS THRE" LONG MEETINGS WITH
PRESIDENT ANWAR SADAT IN CAIRO, AND DIPLOMATIC OBSERVERS HERE
SPECULATED. THAT HE NAY HAVE GONE ON TO ANOTHER ARAB CAPITAL.
SYRIA IS THE OTHER. MAJOR ARAB PARTICIPANT IN THE PRESENT
WAR, E.UT DAMASCUS, ITS CAPITAL, HAS ALREADY BEEN ATTACK--D BY
ISRAELI AIRCRAFT AND MAY BE REGARDED AS TOO CLOSE TO THE
FIGHTING ZONE FOR A VISIT BY THE SOVIET LEADER.
IN VIEW OF THIS, THE OBSERVER' SAID, KOSYGIN COULD
HAVE GONE TO BAGHDAD WHERE HE COULD BE MEETING BOTH
SYRIAN AND IRAQI LEADERS. IRAQ HAS UNTTS FIGHTING WITH SYRIAN
FORCES AGAINST THE ISRAELIS.
KOSYCIN IS REPORTED IN CAIRO TO HAI' IE FLOWN IN ON
TUESDAY EVENING AND HELD A SERIES OF MEETINGS WITH
SADAT SEFO?'Z LEAVING YESTERDAY FOR AN UN"NOWN DESTINATION.
REUTER LFT/HG CR21
No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/08/02 : LOC-HAK-186-2-25-6