Israel is doing all it can to keep alive the peace mission of United Nations special envoy Ambassador Gunnar V. Jarring although there has been no change in Egypt’s stand on the Middle East conflict which, if anything, has reportedly hardened in recent weeks, sources here said today. Israel’s Foreign Minister, Abba Eban, met with Dr. Jarring here yesterday and categorically rejected the latest exposition of Egypt’s views which the UN emissary brought from Cairo. Mr. Eban proposed to Dr. Jarring a procedure for further talks but the content of his proposal was not revealed. Dr. Jarring will return to Jerusalem at the conclusion of Mr. Eban’s visit to the United States later this week to confer with President Richard M. Nixon and other high U.S. officials. Before coming here again, the UN envoy will make another round of visits to Arab capitals. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said Dr. Jarring brought a memorandum from Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad which demanded unconditional Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territories and return to the boundaries of June 4,1967, the day before the Six-Day War started. It offered no peace, made no reference to Israel’s claim of navigation rights in the Suez Canal and Straits of Tiran, mentioned nothing of agreed and secure borders and contained no offer to end the Arab-Israeli conflict. In short, it reflected the stand taken by Egyptian President Nasser in his most recent and belligerent speeches, the spokesman said.
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