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Subject: Palestinian negotiators in Egypt for art of diplomacy talks
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Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 17:39:40 PDT
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	CAIRO, Egypt (UPI) -- Hoping to gain from Egypt's long experience at
the negotiating table with Israel, a high-level team of Palestinian
negotiators embarked on extensive talks Saturday with Egyptian
officials.
	With only two weeks until the next round of Arab-Israeli talks, the
13-member Palestinian team, led by Palestinian delegation chief Haider
Abdul Shafi, arrived in Cairo late Friday on a weeklong visit.
	In addition to veterans of the Palestinian negotiating team, the
group in Cairo includes Palestinian negotiating heavyweights such as
West Bank activist Faisal Al Husseini and official spokeswoman for the
Palestinian negotiating team Hanan Ashrawi.
	The team met Saturday with a number of senior Egyptian officials,
including those who led Egypt in negotiations with Israel which led to
the first ever peace treaty in 1979 between Israel and an Arab state.
	The Palestinian delegation also was scheduled to meet Egypt's Foreign
Minister Amr Moussa when he returns to Cairo from his current trip with
President Hosni Mubarak, now in Tunis.
	Among those involved in the talks were the Arab League Secretary-
General Esmat Abdel Meguid, who served as Egypt's foreign minister when
Cairo signed its peace treaty with the Jewish state, and former Prime
Minister Mustafa Khalil, who led Egypt's delegation in the negotiations
with Israel which led to the restoration of Egypt's sovereignty over the
Sinai Peninsula.
	``The talks have the aim of discussing four major topics related to
the forthcoming round of peace negotiations,'' said Ahmed Izzat, a
senior foreign ministry official.
	``These are reviewing the technics of negotiations, discussing
information and studies related to Israel's negotiating conduct and
benefiting from Egypt's negotiating experience with Israel,'' he said.
	The Arab-Israeli peace encounters were scheduled to resume in
Washington April 27 with the participation of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and
the Palestinians and were expected to be the last before Israel's
general election in June.
	Foreign ministers of the Arab parties involved in the peace talks
held a meeting in Beirut earlier this month and reportedly agreed on a
unified strategy for the upcoming talks.
	The peace talks were launched in Madrid last October before moving to
Washington, where another four rounds of talks were held but with litle
success.
	Arab delegates at the talks accused Israel of not being genuine in
wanting peace in the troubled region because of its rejection of the
land-for-peace trade in accordance with U.N. Security Council
resolutions No. 242 and 338.
	The new round of peace talks will be convened against a background of
continued Israeli resistance to surrendering the territories it occupied
in the 1967 six-day Mideast war -- the West Bank, Gaza Strip and the
Syrian Golan Heights.
	Israeli Premier Yitzhak Shamir said in Jerusalem last week that his
rightist Likud Party would not abandon any of the occupied territories,
which he called the land of ``Greater Israel.''
	Shamir also vowed to continue his government's settlement policy in
the Israeli-held territories despite repeated protests from the United
States and Western European countries.
	The United States has said Jewish settlements in the occupied
territories posed a major obstacle to peace and the U.S. administration
has refused to grant $10 billion loan guarantees to Israel to finance
settling Soviet immigrants in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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