Acting Premier Yigael Yadin announced tonight that the Cabinet has reached decisions on all military and security aspects of the draft peace treaty with Egypt but refused to divulge the nature of the decisions. He said the government authorized Defense Minister Ezer Weizman to return to Washington to conclude the negotiations with Egypt on the military elements in accordance with the precise guidelines and decisions of the Cabinet.
The Cabinet met for 5 1/2 hours today as a Ministerial Security Committee. Its deliberations were classified and no communique was issued. Yadin said, however, that the government authorized the Israeli delegation in Washington to continue its negotiations on the political aspects of the treaty but refused to give any details. “If the government has authorized the delegation to continue its negotiations, this means that there were decisions reached on the issue,” Yadin told reporters.
He said he spoke with Premier Menachem Begin by phone today to bring him up to date on the Cabinet’s proceedings. “We decided that there is no need to rush through the negotiations because every detail in these final stages is of the utmost importance,” Yadin said.
Meanwhile, the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Security Committee scheduled a special session for tonight to hear a briefing by Weizman. The committee had protested earlier that Weizman cancelled a meeting with the committee that was to have taken place yesterday.
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