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Letter to the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate Transmitting Proposal for United States Participation in an Early Warning System in the Sinai Peninsula

September 03, 1975

[Dated September 2, 1975. Released September 3, 1975]

I AM enclosing for the immediate information of the Congress, the text of a proposal to be signed by the President of Egypt regarding the terms under which American civilian personnel could play a role in connection with an early warning system in the buffer zone between the Egyptian and Israeli forces in the Sinai.

A similar proposal will be signed by the Prime Minister of Israel. The text of that document is also enclosed. I intend to request formally that Congress approve this document. I would appreciate your views on the form which this approval should take. As soon as the official texts of the other documents related to the Egypt-Israel agreement initialed on September 1st have been signed by the parties in Geneva, I will be making a formal transmission of the texts of the agreement and related documents for the information of the Congress.

Sincerely,

GERALD R. FORD

Note: This is the text of identical letters addressed to the Honorable Carl Albert, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Honorable Nelson A. Rockefeller, President of the Senate.

The texts of the proposals approved by the Egyptian and Israeli Governments are printed in Treaties and Other International Acts Series (TIAS 8155 and 8156, respectively).

Gerald R. Ford, Letter to the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate Transmitting Proposal for United States Participation in an Early Warning System in the Sinai Peninsula Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/257103

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