Premier Yitzhak Rabin reported to the Cabinet today that there is no authoritative word from Egypt on the nature of offers it is willing to make in a second stage agreement with Israel. Summing up Foreign Minister Yigal Allon’s talks in Washington last week, Rabin said an interim agreement with Egypt was possible.
He said that Allon brought no new Israeli proposals to Washington and that Israel was now waiting for word from Cairo. Rabin announced that Allon had invited Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger to return to the Middle East “to advance the negotiations on an interim agreement with Egypt.” There were no indications here today as to if and when Kissinger would undertake such a mission. (See separate story Pg. 3.)
(Allon arrived in London yesterday for what was described as a private visit. He held a private luncheon meeting with Prime Minister Harold Wilson and afterwards they were joined for an informal exchange of views by Israeli Ambassador Gideon Rafael. They talked for four-and-a-half hours. It was understood that the conversation ranged over Middle East problems, Anglo-Israel bilateral relations, and Israel’s relations with the European Economic Community. It is believed that Allon also brought up the question of Soviet Jewry in light of the USSR’s repudiation of the 1972 trade pact with the U.S.)
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