ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the fact that the Arabs, including the PLO, understand there are no military solutions to the Israeli-Arab conflict. Instead, Peres proposed to initiate direct negotiations between Israel and a Jordanian-Palestinian delegation, without preliminary conditions, on the basis of UN Security Council's Resolution. The UN Secretary-General may also be authorised to organize contacts between the sides and advance, step after step, towards a substantial negotiation. It is impossible to use nuclear arms in the Middle East; the short distances may even lead to self-destruction. President Nicolae Ceausescu repeated that the USSR must be involved, and that the present situation facilitates taking steps towards initiating the negotiations in the manner he has just suggested. This dialogue, like the previous ones and those which would follow, proved to me the extent of Ceausescu's orientation in Middle East matters, more than any other East European leader.
