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NEWS SERVICE time:
Release
from a speech
Extract
SUNDAY,
hours/
19.30
25/S1
29th March,
19S1
Geoffrey
Rippon,
by the Rt. Hon.
QC, MP,
(Hexham),
Foreign and Chairman of the Conservative Party's Parliamentary Affairs Committee, speaking at a meeting of the North Commonwealth Friends of Israel, Civic East Regional Council of the Conservative Centre, Newc;-Jstle-upon-Tyne on Sunday, 29th March. of Israel
The future
The starting
point
international While
agreement.
it must be clearly
Liberation
the PLO can come to the Conference
Before
to
be expected
Organisation
Eaually,
and abandon
boundaries;
recognised
the State of Israel
recognise
struggle;
it must be accepted to expect
unrealistic
self-defence,
Israel Israel
guarantees. behind
that
in
(the PLO)
asreements,
all our British as Lord Carrington
a complement In this
initiative
and our experience
influence solutions.
Peace we must
Meanwhile settlement
between
to assist
be imposed
cannot
do everything Israel
Department,
Conservative
Central
Otce.
to act as
must
about
a
be to use our
than to formulate
from outside
tl-e Middle
to buttress
- the one wholly
32 Smith
must be
to talk
East.
the peace
encouraaing
of danrYer and uncertainty. Issued by Publicity
for
acrreements.
purpose
rather
in our power
and Egypt
efforts
misleading
The European
as such.
capacity
in Washington,
for these
has been,
or United
of the Camp David
recently
to and not a substitute
and wholly
frontiers.
foundation
said
by
internationally
on great power
solely
and all our European
sense it is, and always
European
within
be unreasonable
it would
defensible
is to be made on the
renounce
of Israel
have its own manifest
must
manifestly
it must
terrorism.
to rely
If progress
designed,
table,
the elimination
envisages
which
Covenant
its National
Nation
cannot
in final negotiations,
circumstances.
present
armed
Israel
that
understood
with the Palestinian
negotiate
element
a Palestinian
involving
without
can be found or stability
solution
that no long-term
accepting
achieved
by
guaranteed
frontiers
defensible
within
independence
full sovereiEn
must be its right to
on Israel
policy
for British
Square, London SW1 01-222 9000
event
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That peace
disarray
one manifestation regarded
as an ally whose
security
of the whole
This
free world.
agreed
Bank
autonmy
Palestinian
and after the first and developing I think
three
autonomy.
that
it would
concern.
Nevertheless
in advance
of any further
or setting
has been
of settlements
the extension
any preconditions
on modifyina
begin
could
negotiations
years
of five years
period
for an "interim"
was to last
Limited
autonomy.
a limited
towards
to make progress
of
formula
the Camp David
under
already
has
Israel
since
about the future
negotiations
does not in any way preclude
the West
part of the
an essential
is indeed
security
must be
Israel
and rivalries,
divisions
of Arab
the Iran and Irao war only
with
to Afghanistan,
from Turkey
with general
East,
Middle
In an unstable
Government".
British
to the
importance
is of paramount
of Israel
of the State
and
th.,t "the integrity
emphasised
has rightly
Minister
The Prime security
people.
for the Palestinian
solution
a just
would provide
which
East settlement
Middle
comprehensive
- a
desian
in the greater
than one element
to be more
ifencled
even if it was never
in itself
is important
settlement
about
or about the future
state,
Palestinian
up an independent
or elsewhere,
Bank to Jordan,
the West
returning
to lay down,
in Geneval
whether
Conference
either
to attempt
be wrong
of natural
a matter
of Jerusalem.
in due course policy,
is that
as Mr. Abba
Arabs
by the Israel
Eban has said, Israeli
idea of a permanent Palestinian
envisaged
in the West
Labour
over
support
the idea of an Arab
State on our eastern
on both
sides of the Jordan
and includina
of that
the vast
majority
of which
they would
nation
into two entities
divided
by an artificial
It may be that King Hussein
the
it:
"We
extending
Palestinians
- Palestinian
-
state
control."
to a fragmentation
This may well be preferable
border,
2.7 million
- in a Jordanian
be in effective
to accept
the 1.2 million As he puts
Bank of Gaza.
This
Party
on the refusal
is based
jurisdiction
operative
become
might
which
It may well be that one of the options
of Jordan
will
of the Palestine
people
boundary.
in due course
be reinstated
a position he relinquished of the Palestinians, as the representative at the Arab summit meetina in Rabat in 1974. This has always
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bellone
of the most
power
to impose
There
are indeed
will have
Above
than which
END
Middle
is suggested
of options
a number
to he accepted
itself
arrangements,
but it is not in our
it.
all we must
turbulent
desirable
but the only one that
on the spot by both
that
understand
the future
East must be regarded by speaking
is not solely
solely
a matter
Israel
can succeed
and Jordan.
of the increasingly
in a much widercantext
of the Arab-Israeli of the Palestinian
conflict, auestion.