Egyptian ambassadors meeting here today with Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad, were reportedly pleased with the progress of Cairo’s latest diplomatic offensive in Western capitals. Observers said they were noticeably cheered by the report of Dr. Ashraf Ghorbal, Egypt’s chief diplomatic representative in Washington on his talks with Secretary of State William P. Rogers and Assistant Secretary Joseph J. Sisco last week. Dr. Ghorbal was reportedly promised that the United States would continue to seek to influence Israel to accept a Mideast settlement in line with the withdrawal principles of the Security Council’s Resolution 242 but was told the U.S. needs more time to achieve that objective. Robert Anderson, the political counsel at the U.S. Embassy here, reportedly delivered a message to Foreign Minister Riad yesterday in which the U.S. reaffirmed its support of United Nations mediator Dr. Gunnar V. Jarring’s Feb. 8 note asking Israel if it was prepared to commit itself to the principle of withdrawal. An Embassy spokesman described the note as “routine” but would make no further comment on it.
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