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NEWS SERVICE time:

Release

from a speech

Extract

SUNDAY,

hours/

19.30

25/S1

29th March,

19S1

Geoffrey

Rippon,

by the Rt. Hon.

QC, MP,

(Hexham),

Foreign and Chairman of the Conservative Party's Parliamentary Affairs Committee, speaking at a meeting of the North Commonwealth Friends of Israel, Civic East Regional Council of the Conservative Centre, Newc;-Jstle-upon-Tyne on Sunday, 29th March. of Israel

The future

The starting

point

international While

agreement.

it must be clearly

Liberation

the PLO can come to the Conference

Before

to

be expected

Organisation

Eaually,

and abandon

boundaries;

recognised

the State of Israel

recognise

struggle;

it must be accepted to expect

unrealistic

self-defence,

Israel Israel

guarantees. behind

that

in

(the PLO)

asreements,

all our British as Lord Carrington

a complement In this

initiative

and our experience

influence solutions.

Peace we must

Meanwhile settlement

between

to assist

be imposed

cannot

do everything Israel

Department,

Conservative

Central

Otce.

to act as

must

about

a

be to use our

than to formulate

from outside

tl-e Middle

to buttress

- the one wholly

32 Smith

must be

to talk

East.

the peace

encouraaing

of danrYer and uncertainty. Issued by Publicity

for

acrreements.

purpose

rather

in our power

and Egypt

efforts

misleading

The European

as such.

capacity

in Washington,

for these

has been,

or United

of the Camp David

recently

to and not a substitute

and wholly

frontiers.

foundation

said

by

internationally

on great power

solely

and all our European

sense it is, and always

European

within

be unreasonable

it would

defensible

is to be made on the

renounce

of Israel

have its own manifest

must

manifestly

it must

terrorism.

to rely

If progress

designed,

table,

the elimination

envisages

which

Covenant

its National

Nation

cannot

in final negotiations,

circumstances.

present

armed

Israel

that

understood

with the Palestinian

negotiate

element

a Palestinian

involving

without

can be found or stability

solution

that no long-term

accepting

achieved

by

guaranteed

frontiers

defensible

within

independence

full sovereiEn

must be its right to

on Israel

policy

for British

Square, London SW1 01-222 9000

event

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That peace

disarray

one manifestation regarded

as an ally whose

security

of the whole

This

free world.

agreed

Bank

autonmy

Palestinian

and after the first and developing I think

three

autonomy.

that

it would

concern.

Nevertheless

in advance

of any further

or setting

has been

of settlements

the extension

any preconditions

on modifyina

begin

could

negotiations

years

of five years

period

for an "interim"

was to last

Limited

autonomy.

a limited

towards

to make progress

of

formula

the Camp David

under

already

has

Israel

since

about the future

negotiations

does not in any way preclude

the West

part of the

an essential

is indeed

security

must be

Israel

and rivalries,

divisions

of Arab

the Iran and Irao war only

with

to Afghanistan,

from Turkey

with general

East,

Middle

In an unstable

Government".

British

to the

importance

is of paramount

of Israel

of the State

and

th.,t "the integrity

emphasised

has rightly

Minister

The Prime security

people.

for the Palestinian

solution

a just

would provide

which

East settlement

Middle

comprehensive

- a

desian

in the greater

than one element

to be more

ifencled

even if it was never

in itself

is important

settlement

about

or about the future

state,

Palestinian

up an independent

or elsewhere,

Bank to Jordan,

the West

returning

to lay down,

in Geneval

whether

Conference

either

to attempt

be wrong

of natural

a matter

of Jerusalem.

in due course policy,

is that

as Mr. Abba

Arabs

by the Israel

Eban has said, Israeli

idea of a permanent Palestinian

envisaged

in the West

Labour

over

support

the idea of an Arab

State on our eastern

on both

sides of the Jordan

and includina

of that

the vast

majority

of which

they would

nation

into two entities

divided

by an artificial

It may be that King Hussein

the

it:

"We

extending

Palestinians

- Palestinian

-

state

control."

to a fragmentation

This may well be preferable

border,

2.7 million

- in a Jordanian

be in effective

to accept

the 1.2 million As he puts

Bank of Gaza.

This

Party

on the refusal

is based

jurisdiction

operative

become

might

which

It may well be that one of the options

of Jordan

will

of the Palestine

people

boundary.

in due course

be reinstated

a position he relinquished of the Palestinians, as the representative at the Arab summit meetina in Rabat in 1974. This has always

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bellone

of the most

power

to impose

There

are indeed

will have

Above

than which

END

Middle

is suggested

of options

a number

to he accepted

itself

arrangements,

but it is not in our

it.

all we must

turbulent

desirable

but the only one that

on the spot by both

that

understand

the future

East must be regarded by speaking

is not solely

solely

a matter

Israel

can succeed

and Jordan.

of the increasingly

in a much widercantext

of the Arab-Israeli of the Palestinian

conflict, auestion.