Secretary General Kurt Waldheim was handed this afternoon a letter from the United States and the Soviet Union inviting him to convene the Middle East peace conference and preside in the opening phase. Waldheim then handed the Egyptian, Jordanian. Syrian and Israeli envoys identical letters telling them he is convening the conference at 10:30 a.m. (Geneva time) at the Palais des Nations.
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