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put to it. Wo wore shouldering rosponsibilitios in the world that no othor
country of our sizo and rosources would havo attempted to shoulder.
Wo
havo said, of course, that wo'd retain a general capability, and could in
cortain circumstances intervene in Far Eastorn affairs, but wo aro not undor
a commitment to do so.
Mr. Samir Kram (United Arab Broadcasting Service): I understood that
you said to a daily in Hong Kong that you aro convinced now that it is impossiblo
to get the Arabs and tho Israalis together in direct negotiations.
Does this
mean the British Government is now convinced that the Isracli withdrawal
should come first to implement the U.N. Sccurity Council's rosolution?
Mr. Stowart:
Whatovor I'vo said I've said this quite often. It's
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that I do believe it would bọ a good thing if wo could have direct negotiations,
but thơ, since it is cloar that the Arab countries have extremely strong
objcctions to this, wo must thorofore try and find some other way, through
modiation of Dr. Jarring, through any possibility that may open. That is to
say, while I believe thoro will bo advantago in direct nogotiations, I don't
think it's any good saying if thero's not to be direct nogotiations, there's
not to be anything. Wo must try and find another way. As to withdrawal,
the resolution requires withdrawal. It also requires an absoluto commitment
to posco, and recognition of evory state's right to rxist. Now, you can't
pick any ono bit of the resolution out, and say 'I insist on that bit, and I'm
going to forget the othors' tho whole of the rosolution has got to be carried
out, the withdrawal, and everything also in the rosolution as well.
/Mr. Karam
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