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Israel Lodges Protest
On Britain-PLO Talks
Jerusalem (JTA) — Deputy
Foreign Minister Yossi
Beilin summoned Britain's
ambassador to Israel this
week and formally protested
his country's decision to
resume ministerial- level
meetings with the Palestine
Liberation Organization.
British Foreign Office
Minister Douglas Hogg met
with two PLO officials and
Faisal Husseini, the unof-
ficial chief of the Palestinian
delegation to the peace
talks.
The meeting marked a re-
versal of policy for London,
which suspended high-level
contacts with the PLO dur-
ing the Persian Gulf War,
when the PLO leadership
proclaimed its allegiance to
Saddam Hussein.
Mr. Beilin issued a state-
ment that said the decision
came at "a critical juncture"
and could hurt the prospects
for reconvening the peace
talks.
"It constitutes a prize for
Palestinians who have yet to
announce their willingness
to return to the process," Mr.
Beilin said.
But the British said the
purpose of the meeting was
precisely to urge the Pales-
tinians to return to the peace
talks.
Mr. Hogg met with Hael
Fahoun, the head of the
PLO's European section;
Afif Safieh, the PLO's -Lon-
don representative; and Mr.
Husseini.
Mr. Hogg reported after
the meeting that he had
stressed the importance of
restarting the bilateral
talks.
The Palestinians said they
had expressed to Mr. Hogg
their eagerness to return to
the talks but emphasized
that the deportee crisis had
to be resolved first. Follow-
ing the meeting, Mr. Hus-
seini reported he was op-
timistic that a solution
would be found.
The meeting apparently
was more of symbolic than
substantive value.
Israeli officials, mean-
while, speculated on Israel
Radio that Britain is looking
for a role to play in the peace
process and, after defending
Israel during the deporta-
tion crisis, wanted to make
this gesture to the PLO to
appear "evenhanded."
Sinai Artifacts
Returned To Egypt
Tel Aviv (JTA) — The first of
three shipments of ancient
artifacts dug up in the Sinai
desert by Israeli archae-
ologists and slated to be
returned to Egypt will be
sent to Cairo this week.
The artifacts, collected
during the time Israel held
the Sinai from 1967 to 1982,
are to go on display at the
Cairo Museum.
Agreement on returning
the archaeological finds
unearthed in the Sinai, in-
cluding some artifacts pri-
vately purchased by Israelis
from antiquities dealers,
was reached last January in
accordance with interna-
tional treaties.
The accords stipulate that
in certain cases ancient ar-
tifacts must be returned to
the country in which they
were found.
At a handing-over
ceremony in Jerusalem,
Egyptian Antiquities
Department officials ex-
plained the decision to
mount an exhibition at the
Cairo Museum: "We want to
show the Egyptian public
that Israel is returning these
finds that are part of the
Egyptian heritage."
But Israeli archaeologists
said the exhibition decision
appears to be more of a polit-
ical issue rather than a
scientific, cultural or artistic
matter.
The artifacts themselves
are of relatively minor value
and would not warrant a
special exhibit in as
prestigious an institution as
the Cairo Museum, the
foremost world museum
housing ancient Egyptian
and Pharaonic relics.
The Egyptians are to build
a special museum for the
Sinai exhibits at El Arish
within two years.
The artifacts include 10
tombstones from a Byzan-
tine fishing village on the
Bardiwill Lagoon.
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