SYRIA: EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT ARRIVES FOR MORE TALKS WITH SYRIAN AND PALESTINE LIBERATION LEADERS

Record ID: 276635

  • Title: SYRIA: EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT ARRIVES FOR MORE TALKS WITH SYRIAN AND PALESTINE LIBERATION LEADERS
  • Date: 18th May 1975
  • Summary: 1. GV Aircraft taxing .03 2. SV Flags 0.06 3. SV Syrian President Assad greeting Egyptian President Sadat 0.14 4. SV PAN Band & guard of honour 0.21 5. SV Presidents walk over to inspect guard of honour 0.30 6. SV PAN Guard of honour reviewed 0.42 Initials BJB/2305 BJB/2320 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All righ
  • Embargoed: 2nd June 1975 13:00
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  • Location: DAMASCUS, SYRIA
  • Country: Syria
  • Reuters ID: LVA6Q06HBBPAUBRG57UGMSJC868Y
  • Story Text: President Anwar Sadat of Egypt arrived in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Saturday (17 May) on the last stop in his tour of fore Arab countries to discuss the Middle East situation.

    President Sadat, who met by Syrian President Hafez Al-Assad, spoke with Syrian leaders and the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Mr. Yasser Arafat during his short visit.

    The Egyptian President later told newsmen that he had reached full agreement with fellow Arab leaders on Middle East problems during talks on his trip, which also took him to Kuwait, Iraq and Jordan.

    He said they had assessed the situation and discussed steps to be taken. He added that they had consolidated Arab unity and their views on the near future.

    President Sadat was said to be using this trip to size up the opinions of Arab leaders before meeting United States President Ford in Salzburg, Austria, in two weeks'time.
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