Robert J. McCloskey, spokesman for United States Secretary of State William P. Rogers, who is visiting here, told correspondents yesterday: “We expect lengthy exchanges with the Soviet Union on the Middle East during President Nixon’s Moscow visit starting May 22, but we don’t expect any kind of agreement.”
It remains, ho added, “our firm policy not to try and impose any solution and not to agree on anything which concerns Israel without her consent. We shall be no party to such procedures. But the Russians seem interested in discussing the Middle East and we have no objection to a general discussion on this subject.” Foreign Office sources said Rogers told Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home that Nixon expects to reach no Mideast conclusions in Moscow but that an exchange of views could help continue the area’s calm.
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