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Mr Begin and Mr Dayan's attitudes were hardening on the
establishment of autonomy on the West Bank and Sinai and
Israel's activities in the Lebanon were calling into question
the functions of the UN forces. He hoped that Japan,
together with the European Community and the US, could make
clear that in such a delicately balanced situation Mr Begin
must move forward to a point where comprehensive settlement
could be seen by the moderate Arabs as even a possibility
There was (Mr Sonoda agreed).
a real risk if there
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no progress to implement the Egyptian/Israeli Agreement the
other Arabs would take actions which would increase tensions
in the region as a whole. When British Ministers saw
Mr Begin on 23 May they would tell him that we hoped he
could adopt a forward looking policy.
It would help with
the Arabs if the creation of West Bank settlements were halted
and the Israelis undertook that there would be no more.
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This was
The second major area of particular concern to
Britain was Africa, the most explosive issues being Namibia
and Rhodesia.
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On the former, we hoped even now that the
Contact Group of the Western Five would succeed in their
plans for UN supervision of the elections, despite the
difficulties with the South Africans and SWAPO.
the best hope, though we should not underestimate the
difficulties of bringing the South Africans round. On
Rhodesia, Lord Carrington said that over the years the
Conservative Party had required the Rhodesians to satisfy
six basic principles, but until recently the sixth requiring
a test of acceptability for elections had not been satisfied.
PERCENT Now there had been a one-man one-vote with a 64% poll. The
Conservative Party in Opposition had sent observers to see if
these elections had been fair and properly conducted.
The
report now delivered to the Prime Minister concluded that
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