p 11 0/0 ZFIEF R T OE ECNO Y WOLF Blitzer W ashington — Assis- tant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Af- fairs Richard Murphy will not meet with any members of the PLO during his upcoming visit to the Middle East, State Department officials said. Murphy, who will visit Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Syria, will be bound by the same prohibitions against any meetings with the PLO that have been U.S. policy since the signing of the 1975 U.S.-Israeli Memorandum of Agreement barring such con- tacts. "Absolutely nothing has changed in our approach to that question," State Depart- ment spokesman Charles Redman said last week. The issue of U.S. contacts with the PLO surfaced when Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said that Murphy would be meeting with "non- prominent" members of the PLO during his tour of the region. However, Murphy told a House Foreign. Affairs Sub- committee that there has been no change in U.S. policy on this matter. He said that the recent highly publicized and controversial statement by PLO spokesman Bassam Abu Sharif on peace with Israel was not "authorita- tive." As a result, Murphy added, the PLO has not yet met America's conditions for recognition. Over the years, there have been occasional U.S. "con- tacts" with the PLO in con- nection with security ar- rangements for U.S. diplo- mats in Beirut and in trying to win release of American hostages. Israel has not pro- tested these -contacts" as violating the 1975 agreement. The State Department has said that Murphy is anxious to meet with -responsible" Palestinians — just as Secretary of State George Shultz had done during earlier visits ti.. the region. U.S. officials said no meetings between Murphy and Palestinians had yet been finalized. The State Department an- nounced that Murphy would meet in Geneva with his Soviet counterpart, Vladimir Polyakov, to discuss the situa- tion in the Middle East. From Geneva, Murphy will embark on a swing through the region, includings stops in Israel, Jordan, Syria and Egypt. Spokesman Redman de- scribed the purpose of Mur- phy's journey as part of the continuing effort to achieve "a comprehensive Middle East peace." He said there were no immediate plans for Secretary of State George Shultz to return to the region. Murphy said he would raise with Polyakov the recent spread of ballistic missiles in the Middle East. But he acknowledged that this was a difficult problem to resolve. "It's going to be hard," he said, "but the focus is there and we're going to be working it." IN BRIEF Alan G. Yelensky Registered Representative 3000 Town Center Suite 2400 Southfield, Michigan EA AORN 1•••••• Senate Okays New Embassy Washington (JTA) — The Senate voted to allow the State Department to build the new diplomatic facilities in Tel Aviv with the stipula- tion that a comparable com- pounds are built in Jerusalem. The measure, sponsored by Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) and adopted by voice vote last week to the State Depart- ment's 1989 appropriations bill, is intended to force a future U.S. president to recognize either Tel Aviv or Jerusalem as Israel's capital. The amendment specifies that the structures be de- signed in such a way that "equally preserves the abili- ty of the United State to locate its ambassador or its consul general at either site consistent with U.S. policy." It also requires both facilities open at the same time, and prevents the State Department from announcing which site would serve as the embassy until construction on at least one of the facilities is close to completion. A congressional source said the agreement was ham- mered out between Helms, Sen. Chic Hecht (R-Nev.) and Max Kampelman, counselor to Secretary of State George Shultz. 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