The State Department today reiterated President. Carter’s view that a summit meeting is “unlikely” between himself, Premier Menachem Begin of Israel and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt.
Asked if there have been any contacts with Egypt in connection with such a meeting following Carter’s meeting with Begin here last week, Department spokesman John Trattner replied: “I don’t know that there has been any specific contacts on that subject. We have been in touch and we always are with the Egyptians but I don’t know that there was any specific discussion of a summit. There could very well have been. I can only describe it as the President described it last week when he said that he thought a summit was unlikely.”
Trattner said he had no information as to when Egyptian Foreign Minister Butros Ghali would visit Washington, He had no comment on Begin’s remark on the NBC-TV Meet The Press program yesterday that Israel would never “descend” from the Golan Heights. The Israeli Premier did not elaborate nor state his government’s position on a bill pending in the Knesset to annex the Golan Heights.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
