Summary
UN emissary whose February 1971 initiative — near-identical letters to Israel and Egypt seeking a peace commitment — is the subject of Appendix 13 of Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace (Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, PDF p.573-574).
Details
- Victor Shem-Tov argues Jarring, acting in effect for the USA and USSR, cannot have initiated the letters without talking to Dobrynin and Kissinger (PDF p.573).
- Sadat replied on 10 February offering a peace treaty for sovereignty over all Sinai; Israel, on the pretext of its government basic principles against returning to the 1967 borders, replied negatively, a refusal Shem-Tov calls catastrophic (PDF p.573-574).
Related pages
Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, Victor Shem-Tov, Anwar al-Sadat