UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC: PRESIDENT NASSER, IN HIS FIRST MAJOR SPEECH FOR THREE MONTHS, DECLARES THAT WAR WITH ISRAEL IS INEVITABLE.

Record ID: 337151

  • Title: UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC: PRESIDENT NASSER, IN HIS FIRST MAJOR SPEECH FOR THREE MONTHS, DECLARES THAT WAR WITH ISRAEL IS INEVITABLE.
  • Date: 7th November 1969
  • Summary: MEMBERS AND AMBASSADORS ARRIVE; NASSER ARRIVES; MEMBERS APPLAUD; LABIN CHOUKER INTRODUCES NASSER; NASSER WALKS TO ROSTRUM; NASSER ADDRESSES ASSEMBLY. Initials AH/VS/MR/ES Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 22nd November 1969 13:00
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  • Location: CAIRO, U.A.R.
  • Country: Egypt
  • Reuters ID: LVA63IIP8CBBBO39IFKHU73CU9M7
  • Story Text: IN HIS FIRST MAJOR SPEECH TO THE EGYPTIAN NATION FOR THREE MONTHS, PRESIDENT NASSER TOLD THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY LAST NIGHT (THURSDAY) THAT HE CONSIDERED WAR WITH ISRAEL INEVITABLE. HE ALSO RENEWED HIS CALL FOR AN ARAB SUMMIT CONFERENCE ON THE MIDDLE EAST CRISIS.

    ARAB AND FOREIGN AMBASSADORS GATHERED TO HEAR PRESIDENT NASSER ADDRESS THE NEW TERM OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. THE 51-YEAR-OLD LEADER, LOOKING FIT AFTER HIS RECOVERY FROM INFLUENZA AND OVERWORK, TOLD THE ASSEMBLY THAT ALL OCCUPIED ARAB TERRITORY MUST BE LIBERATED "WITH SACRIFICES OF BLOOD AND UNDER FIRE."
    HE HOPED THAT THE WAY TO A SUMMIT CONFERENCE MIGHT BE CLEARED BY THE MEETING OF ARAB DEFENCE MINISTERS IN CAIRO NEXT WEEKEND, ADDING THAT CIRCUMSTANCES HAD CHANGED SINCE THE LAST SUMMIT IN 1967 -- SHORTLY AFTER THE WAR WITH ISRAEL.

    DURING A 40-MINUTE SPEECH, THE PRESIDENT WAS FREQUENTLY INTERRUPTED BY APPLAUSE FROM THE PACKED ASSEMBLY CHAMBER.

    AMID CHEERS, HE DECLARED THAT PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE WAS "HERE TO STAY", AND THAT IT WOULD CONTINUE UNTIL A PALESTINIAN NATION HAD BEEN FOUNDED.
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