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implement in full the provisions of SCR 598.

- A UN-sponsored international conference on the basis of SCRS 242 and 338 remains in our view the best prospect for a settlement in the Middle East. But the main responsibility lies with the key parties to the conflict, who must show unambiguously that they want peace.

The recent meeting of the Palestine National Council in Algiers

The PLO are now clearly committed to gives grounds for hope.

For the first time the PNC have peaceful coexistence with Israel. accepted an international conference on the basis of the UN resolutions. They have rejected terrorism.

The Palestinians

But decades of enmity cannot easily be erased. must show in deeds as well as words that they accept Israel and are

Israel must be preared to put committed to the search for peace. Palestinian good faith to the test through a similar commitment to negotiations.

The new Israeli Government should respond constructively to Palestinian overtures.

Past Israeli policies have failed, and attempts to use force to suppress the uprising in occupied territories have only aroused more hatred. urgently needed.

A new approach is

My Lords, the UN has also offered a blueprint, in SCR 435 for a settlement in Namibia. Over long years of negotiation we have offered our full support to the US policy of refusing to separate the Namibian question from the issue of the Cuban troop presence in Angola. The recent agreement in Geneva is a vindication of the US policy of patient, constructive engagement over the past 7 years

We are ready to contribute and a personal triumph for Chet Crocker.

to the UN Transitional Assistance Group.

It

There is a lesson here for our own policy towards South Africa.

We have supported the US approach is that dialogue brings results.

to Namibia with the South Africans, and receive a respectful

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