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Dr. Kissinger's visit to Cairo is expected to take two days. If the Secretary of State finds a chance between meetings, he will visit the Pyramids and the Sphinx in Giza. He expressed his personal desire to make this visit before leaving Washington.

In addition to his meetings with Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy, Dr. Kissinger will meet with Vice-President Dr. Fawzi, and Hafez Ismail, Adviser to the President for National Security Affairs.

Dr. Kissinger is scheduled to leave Cairo for Amman on Thursday morning.

"Al-Gombouria"'s diplomatic editor learns that Cairo's stand towards the talks with Dr. Kissinger can be summed up as follows:

**First** : Talks will centre on the achievement of a just and lasting solution of the Middle East crisis provided that steps of settlement are to start at once.

**Second** : Egypt considers the achievement of a lasting solution as an indivisible process, and asserts that Israel's withdrawal to the October 22 lines is the starting point of settlement which should not stop and continue till it culminates in withdrawal to the June 5 lines.

**Third** : Cairo respects the Security Council resolutions Nos.336, 339 and 340, and she is ready to carry out at once these resolutions.

**Fourth** : The Security Council resolution No.338 called for steps to start the immediate implementation of Security Council resolution No.242 for 1967. This resolution stipulates total withdrawal and achievement of the just rights of the Palestinian people. Therefore, the implementation of this resolution is indivisible.

**Fifth** : Israel's withdrawal to the October 22 lines, as stipulated by the Security Council resolution, will show to what extent each side respects the cease-fire resolution as a step towards total withdrawal. It is also necessary to show to what extent Israel adheres to the Security Council resolutions and to what extent she is ready to contribute towards peace.

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Furthermore, the resolutions adopted by the
Security Council are guaranteed by the two super-powers.

An Important Emergency Meeting
*By Israeli Cabinet*

Israeli Premier Golda Meir yesterday invited to an emergency Cabinet meeting one hour following her arrival in Tel-Aviv. Israeli papers said that the Israeli government may find itself forced to adopt important and difficult decisions after listening to Meir's report.

Before leaving Washington, Golda Meir told the correspondent of the Israeli paper "Yediot Aharonot" that she has no encouraging news for the Israelis. She further said that there were still differences between the U.S. and Israel concerning withdrawal to the October 22 lines.

Dayan: There Is A S<sub>tr</sub>rong Possibility
That Fighting Will Be Resumed

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Dayan said that he expects fighting to flare up at any movement. He further said that war was not over.

Reports from the front say that big forces
from both sides are in a state of high alert.

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NOVEMBER 6, 1973

EGYPT

Resisting Occupation is Legal Right of
Civilian Population in Canal Area

Israel Tries to Find Pretext to Launch New Military
Aggression

Egyptian Official and Military Spokesmen Address
Pressmen Yesterday

Egypt Had Not Objected to Presence of US
Observers in the Area

Ahmed Anis, the Egyptian official spokesman yes-
terday told foreign pressmen that Israel was trying to find
a pretext to violate the ceasefire and launch a new mili-
tary aggression.

The spokesman added that Egyptian Government had not
objected to the presence of United States observers.

He recalled recent statements by the U.S. Secretary
of State to the effect that while his government would not
agree to the despatch of U.S. forces, it agreed to the send-
ing of observers, but so far, Anis said, no such observers
had arrived.

The Official Spokesman earlier had said Israel in
pursuance of its usual practice which stemmed from its
aggressive policy, had tried to mislead world public
opinion into believing that the Egyptian side violated the
ceasefire.

Israel's Purpose

Israel's purpose is only too obvious; it is imply
to justify the aggressions it is contemplating, in
implementation of its expansionist plans, the spokesman
added.

Such plans, he said, are borne out by the Israeli
military presence on both banks of the Suez Canal, and by
Israel's failure to abide by the Security Council's cease-
fire resolutions No. 338 and 339 of 1973.

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["CAIRO PRESS REVIEW", "- 12-", "NOVEMBER 6, 1973", "Anis revealed that 50 Soviet observers including 20\ninterpreters had already arrived but had not as yet joined\nthe observers' team pending the receipt instructions by the\nUnited Nations Secretary General.", "Coordination", "The Official Spokesman said coordination is\ncomplete between President Anwar El Sadat and the Syrian\nHead of State Hafez El Assad. \"This is substantiated by\nthe recent meetings between the two leaders and a number\nof Arab Heads\", he said.", "Anis affirmed that Suez is in Egyptian hands, a\nface, he said, which had been confirmed by Israel itself\nas well as by the United Nations Emergency Force authorities.", "He added that contacts are under way with the\nmilitary authorities to allow newsmen and photographers to\nvisit the own.", "The official spokesman recalled his previous\nstatements on the implementation of the Security Council's\nceasefire resolutions.", "He said both resolutions provided for immediate\nreturn to the October 22 lines which he added, had been\nguaranteed by the two superpowers. Steps are already in\nprogress towards the execution of both resolutions, he\ncontinued.", "Egypt's role", "Of Egypt's role in the coordination of the oil\ncampaign against the United States and Holland, Anis said\nthe Arab states had waited long in the hope that the world\nwould take the side of justice in the Arab-Israeli dispute,\nbut no serious intervention was forthcoming, for a just\nsolution of the problem. The Arabs and no alternative\ntherefore, but to report to all the weapons in their hands\nto impress on the world the extreme gravity of the Middle\nEast situation. Hence the call by a group of Arab states\nincluding Egypt for the use of petroleum as a weapon in\nthe battle, if this were deemed expedient.", "-/-'}, "SWI/NA"]

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The Official Spokesman pointed out that this
weapon would not be used indiscriminately, for it would be
directed only against supporters of the Israeli aggression.

He referred the pressmen present to President Anwar
El Sadat's relevant statements in his October 31 press
conference, adding that any extension of the oil embargo
to other countries was the responsibility of the Arab
petroleum exporting countries oil ministers.

Oil Weapon

Anis said the repercussions of using Arab
petroleum as a weapon in the war against aggression, had
already made themselves felt in the United States, and
world assume more serious proportions in the course of time.

He said the Arab petroleum policy would no doubt
help draw U.S. public opinion to the necessity of the United
States pursue of a more equitable policy in handling the
Middle East case.

Of oil prospecting operations on the Northern
Delta shores, and the possibility of U.S. firms, participa-
tion, Anis said relevant agreements had already been signed
with various companies and organisations. He affirmed that
Egypt honours all such agreements.

Military Spokesman

Major General Moukhtar, the Egyptian Military
spokesman, yesterday replied to a number of questions
posed by foreign correspondents.

In reply to a question on the demarcation of the
October 22 ceasefire line, the military spokesman said that
that this was an easy matter.

"Each side knew well where its troops stood on
that date", he said, "One could further refer to the
statements made by Israeli leaders on October 22, and to the
communique No. 58 issued by the Egyptian General Command
of the Armed Forces, to form a clear view of the military
dispositions at the time the ceasefire became effective".

The military spokesman added that at a press con-
ference on October 26, Dr. Kissinger said the violation of
the ceasefire had led to certain territorial gains by
Israel, Egypt had furnished the Chief of the UN observation
team with all the relevant facts.

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