Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammad Hassan el Zayyat said today on a West German television interview that Egypt would not negotiate with Israel until it has withdrawn from all the occupied territories. Asked whether there would be war, now that political and diplomatic possibilities were exhausted, Zayyat said: “We are in a state of war. We fight every day. We pay daily for armaments. We shall not sit with the Israelis. They will not dictate conditions to us.” Zayyat did not reply when asked what the UN could do. But he insisted that Cairo could not leave the coming generation with what he termed an occupied Egypt.
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