The Cabinet today selected Defense Minister Moshe Dayan to go to Washington for talks with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger on a disengagement with Syria. The announcement said, “The Cabinet approved the trip of the Defense Minister for talks with the Secretary of State on the issue of separation of forces on the Syrian front.” No date was set for his departure. Cabinet Secretary Michael Arnon said the timing of his trip remained to be decided between Washington and Jerusalem.
Some officials here indicated that Dayan might not go to Washington until Kissinger returns from his visit to Moscow later this month Sources here said that Dayan would bring to Kissinger Israel’s proposals for troop separation in the Syrian territory Israel captured during the Yom Kippur War.
They said that Israel will insist on full reciprocity of concessions by both sides and would favor a buffer zone manned by the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) similar to the one separating the two sides on the Egyptian front. Israel is reported to have rejected absolutely a Syrian demand that disengagement include Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights town of Kuneitra captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War.
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