Secretary General Javier Perez De Cuellar said today that the Middle East conflict could be settled through a “compromise formula” which will include “all the positive elements” in the various Mideast peace plans. He cited the Reagan plan, the Fez plan and the France-Egyptian plan as those that can contribute to the “compromise formula.”
Speaking a press conference here, his first for 1983, the Secretary General said that the UN could provide the “framework” for negotiations for a Mideast solution once there is an agreed plan by all the parties concerned.
De Cuellar said in response to a question that it is not the role of the Secretary General to initiate peace proposals. “The Secretary General must be judicious and should not come up with suggestions if he is not sure that they are going to be helpful and conducive to the parties involved,” he said.
De Cuellar said that he is following closely the present negotiations between Israel and Lebanon. He said that he will be discussing the Mideast situation with President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt during the upcoming visit of the Egyptian leader here. He also said that he will discuss the Mideast in his just announced meeting with Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, scheduled to take place at the end of March in Moscow.
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