The caretaker Cabinet will meet in special session next week in preparation for the visit of U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger who is expected to arrive in Jerusalem May 2, It was announced today. The purpose of the meeting was reported to be to devise a policy in connection with the Israeli-Syrian disengagement talks that Kissinger will try to get underway.
According to informed sources, the central issue at the Cabinet meeting will be Israel’s response to possible proposals that it make territorial concessions in the Syrian areas it occupied in the 1967 Six-Day War. The government has repeatedly stated that it would make no territorial concessions outside the Syrian enclave captured by Israel in the Yom Kippur War last Oct.
According to the official line here, additional concessions can be discussed only after a disengagement accord is reached. Political analysts said today that Kissinger is expected to remain in the Middle East only a short time and will return to Washington to continue disengagement talks there preparatory to moving them soon to Geneva.
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