Allon Says There is Full Understanding. Though No Written Agreement Between Israel and the U.S. on B

Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon said here today that “there is full understanding, though not a written agreement, between the United States and Israel on the basic issues, such as recognition of the Palestine Liberation Organization and impairing the chances of peace by changing the nature of the Geneva conference.”

Allon made that statement to a meeting of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations prior to returning to Israel today after a series of talks with U.S. officials in Washington and New York. He was referring primarily to the Security Council’s Middle East debate which opens tomorrow. Israel will not participate because of the invitation extended to the PLO.

Allon said he is leaving the U.S. “more confident” than when he arrived here last week that “on the basic issues, the U.S. and Israel see eye-to-eye” He said, nevertheless, that there is still fear “that our adversaries will be subtle and introduce ‘corrections’ to Resolutions 242 and 338 which will use, so to speak, semantic formulas used on several occasions by the U.S.”

He added, however, that it was more or leas clear to all concerned that any risk to the process of peace that has been achieved through U.S. policy and is recognized internationally as a U.S. achievement–any risk by minor changes or the injections of new aspects–would affect the national interests of the U.S. world-wide.

Allon, who met with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger in Washington Thursday and Friday and addressed the Overseas Press Club Friday, also said that “any technical developments that will take place during the (Security Council) debate will be discussed mutually between Jerusalem, Washington and New York.” He explained in general outline to the Presidents Conference the substance of his discussions in Washington and New York.

Allon said that Israel viewed the invitation to the PLO to attend the Security Council debate as a matter of principle because it was a substantive issue grafted onto a purely administrative matter. He said that the Security Council’s Nov. 30 meeting was convened to deal with the administrative process of renewing the mandate of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) on the Golan Heights but under Soviet “dictation” and Syrian “blackmail” the substantive issue of inviting the PLO was added.