SYRIAN LEADERS STUDYING CEASE-FIRE PROPOSAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-186-5-15-4
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: August 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: October 22, 1973
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/08/02 : LOC-HAK-186-5-15-4
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SYR IAN LEADERS STUDYING .CEASE-FIRE PORPOSAL
M221606 DAMASCUS DOMESTIC' SERVICE IN ARABIC. 1590 .GMT 22 OCT 73 M
CTEXT) SINCE THE SECURITY COUNCIL ISSUED ITS RESOLUTION THIS
MORNING CALLING FOR A CEASE-FIRE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DRAFT
RESOLUTION WHICH WAS AGREED. UPON BETWEEN 'THE 5QVIET UNION AND
THE UNITED STATES AND WHICH THE TWO STATES JOINTLY SUBMITTED : TO
THE SECURITY ,COUNCIL, THIS DECISIDN HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF 5Tt1nY
BY THE CENTRAL COMMAND OF THE PROGRESSIVE NATIONAL FRONT AT A
MEETING WHICH IT HELD THIS MORNING. iT WAS ALSO THE SUBJECT
OF STUDY HY THE NATIONAL AND REGIONAL. COMMANDS OF THE SOCIALIST
ARAB BATH PARTY AT A JOXNT MEETING .WHICH WAS HELD THIS AFTERNOON.
CONTACTS NAVE BEEN HELD WITH ARAB KINGS AND PRESIDENTS TO
EXCHANGE. VIEWS ON THE SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION.
THE SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION COMPRISES THREE CLAUSES CALLING
ON ALL PARTIES TO THE PRESENT FIGHTING TO CEASE ALL' FIRING AND
TERMINATE ALL MILITARY ACTIVITY IMMEDIATELY--NOT LATER THAN
12 HOURS FRDM THE MOMENT OF THE ADOPTION C)F THIS RESOLUTION BY
THE SECURITY COUNCIL--IN THE POSITIONS THEY NOW .OCCUPY. THE
DECISION ALSO CALLS ON PARTIES CONCERNED TO BEGIN IMPLEC+IENTATIOIV
OF SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION N0. 2A2 OF 196.7 IN ALL OF ITS
PARTS IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE CEASE-FIRE. IT ALSO DECIDES THAT
IMMEDIATELY .AND CONCURRENTLY WITH THE CEASE-FIRE, .NEGOTIATIONS
AIMED A7 ESTABLISHING A JUST AND DURABLE. PEACE IN THE MIDDLE
EAST BEGIN, UNDER THE .APPROPRIATE AUSPICES, AMONG THE ,PARTIES
OONCER NED.
IT WAS ANNOUNCED IN CAIRO THAT PRESIDENT ANWAR AS-SAD AT HA'S
ISSUED ORDERS TO THE GENERAL CDMMAND OF THE ARMED FORCES iN THE
ARAB REPUBLIC (3F EGYPT TO CEASE FIRING AT .THE TIME .SPECIFIED
BY THE' SECURITY COUNCIL PROVIDED. ':HAT THE ENEMY WILL ALSO ADH#RE
TO IT.
PRESIDENT ANWAR AS-SAD AT TOOK THIS MEASURE AFTER STUDYING WITH
EXTREME CARE THE SECURITY COUNCIL RES.~LUTION ANA THE DETAILS
OF .THE SECURITY COUNCIL DEBATE ON IT.
22 OCT 16422 HWM/HM ""`
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No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/08/02 : LOC-HAK-186-5-15-4