A delegation representing the Patriarch of Cairo arrived in Rome today to convey to Pope Paul VI the Patriarch’s views on Jerusalem and other Middle East problems. Msgr. Kabes, head of the delegation, said today that the delegation wanted to discuss the fate of the victims of the Arab-Israel conflict, the status of Jerusalem and international law. All these, he said, were “different aspects of one indivisible problem, the Palestinian problem.”
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