Tass the Soviet News agency, in its Moscow dispatch today, said that the Soviet Union was prepared to participate, along with other permanent Security Council members, in creating “international guarantees” for a political settlement in the Middle East. According to the dispatch, filed from New York, Tass discussed the opening today of the United Nations General Assembly, and said that there is “no doubt” a broad discussion will be held on “eliminating consequences” of the Israeli “aggression.” Tass said that the Soviet Union favored a political settlement based on the Security Council Resolution 242.
Meanwhile, State Department spokesman Robert McCloskey listed the Middle East in citing a list of topics which Secretary of State William P. Rogers will discuss with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko on Friday night at a Soviet-American dinner which Rogers will host at the Waldorf Towers in New York City. McCloskey also mentioned other topics but stressed the Middle East.
In response to newsmen’s queries, McCloskey declined to say what was the current thrust of US discussion on the Middle East. Asked whether the US had been in touch with Egypt and Israel about the desirability of exercising restraint in connection with the weekend flareup of fighting on the Suez Canal, he said “I don’t think in any high level or in any more dramatic way than we have counseled this kind of restraint as a continuing matter.” Asked about the reports in Egypt’s influential daily Al Ahram that Israel had moved artillery to the Suez Canal, he said he had no information “at hand.”
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