Premier Menachem Begin is scheduled to arrive in New York Sunday, Sept. 6, the first stop of a nine-day visit to the United States. His entourage will include Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Defense Minister Ariel Sharon and Interior Minister Yosef Burg and their parties.
Begin’s visit to the U.S. is crowded with public appearances, meeting with U.S. officials and Jewish leaders as well as private meetings, according to the Premier’s itinerary as released to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency today by the Israeli Consulate here. Begin will open his visit with a statement to the press upon his arrival Sunday afternoon at JFK Airport here. On Monday, Labor Day, the Premier will hold some private meetings.
Begin will depart for Washington on Tuesday, Sept. 8. Although his Washington itinerary was not available here it was reported that Begin will meet President Reagan on Wednesday, Sept. 9. Begin will stay in Washington until Friday, Sept. 11 when he will return to New York. He is expected to hold a press conference at the airport upon his arrival to the city.
While no meetings are scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 12, the next day, Sunday, Begin will have a hectic schedule. At noon he will appear on NBC-TV’s “Meet the Press.” In the afternoon he will meet with members of the Council of Churches for Israel and in the evening he will attend and address the National Conference of the Jabotinsky Movement in the U.S., sponsored by the Herut U.S.A., to be held at the Roosevelt Hotel.
On Monday, Sept. 14, Begin is scheduled to meet with Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. At noon he will address an Israel Bond Organization luncheon. In the afternoon Mayor Edward Koch will hold a reception for the Israeli Premier at City Hall to be attended by a few hundred guests. In the evening Begin will appear at the National Leadership Assembly for Israel, sponsored by various Jewish organ-
izations, to be held at the Sheraton Centre. On Tuesday, Sept. 15, Begin will fly to Plains, Ga., to meet with former President Jimmy Carter. After the meeting he will fly back to Israel.
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