U.S.A.: FOREIGN MINISTERS OF EGYPT AND SAUDI ARABIA ARRIVE IN WASHINGTON FOR TALKS WITH STATE SECRETARY KISSINGER ON SYRIAN-ISRAELI TROOP DISENGAGEMENT.
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U.S.A.: FOREIGN MINISTERS OF EGYPT AND SAUDI ARABIA ARRIVE IN WASHINGTON FOR TALKS WITH STATE SECRETARY KISSINGER ON SYRIAN-ISRAELI TROOP DISENGAGEMENT.
- Title: U.S.A.: FOREIGN MINISTERS OF EGYPT AND SAUDI ARABIA ARRIVE IN WASHINGTON FOR TALKS WITH STATE SECRETARY KISSINGER ON SYRIAN-ISRAELI TROOP DISENGAGEMENT.
- Date: 17th February 1974
- Summary: 1. SV Kissinger with Fahmy by microphones at 6 ft. Kissinger speaks 0.54 2. CU Fahmy 0.56 3. SCU Sakkaf speaks then Kissinger and ministers walk away 2.18 TRANSCRIPTS OF STATEMENTS BY HENRY KISSINGER AND OMAR SAKKAF FOLLOW: KISSINGER: "On behalf of the President, I would like to welcome our friends, Foreign Minister Fahmy from Egypt, Foreign Minister Sakkaf from Saudi Arabia to the United States. As you all know, they come as emassaries from the four heads of, from the heads of government meeting of the countries of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria and algeria, from Algiers. We will conduct our conversations with friendship and confidence that characterises our relationship. We will listen to their message with the greatest attention and we will, of course, state our point of view with the same frankness and openness". SAKKAF: "We come here, me and my friend representing the four contries, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Syria and Egypt of course. We are very hopeful that our talks with our friends here will be very good and very fruitful. We have decided to come, I can say, after being sure that something has to happen. And this long, long difficulties we have is going to be solved I hope during our visit to the States. Thank you very much. I thank you, I thank the people of the United States. I thank the President and my friend Henry". Initials GM/1853 GM/1907 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: WASHINGTON, U.S.A.
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