Foreign Minister Shimon Peres of Israel will hold high-level diplomatic meetings here this week. Official Israeli sources confirmed he would meet with President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt at the opening of the United Nations Trade and Development Agency (UNTDA) conference Thursday.
According to reports from Jerusalem, he will also meet with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy, the Reagan Administration’s top diplomatic trouble-shooter for the Middle East. There is a chance Peres may also talk with Murphy’s Soviet counterpart, Vladimir Polyakov, sources here said.
Murphy and Polyakov are meeting here Monday and Tuesday for the third annual U.S.-Soviet exchange on the Middle East. The idea for regular discussions emerged from the November 1985 summit talks between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
They’re expected to discuss an international conference for Middle East peace and the situation in the Persian Gulf. Peres supports such a conference, but makes Soviet participation contingent on its resumption of diplomatic relations with Israel. The Israeli Foreign Minister is also expected to meet here with UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar. The Cabinet in Jerusalem gave its consent Sunday for Peres to come to Geneva this week.
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