President Carter declared today that he is “determined that progress for a summit meeting” between himself, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin “will not interfere with substantive negotiations” for West Bank-Gaza Strip autonomy.
Carter told a nationally-televised White House press conference that he was optimistic on the Middle East situation because “top level negotiations” were now going on in Washington between Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Egyptian Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan Ali and U.S. special envoy Sol Linowitz. Carter, in his remarks, ignored the original question, whether there could be progress in the Mideast if there was no discussion of the Jerusalem issue.
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