Jarring was appointed on 23 November 1967 by
UN Secretary-General,
U Thant, as Special Envoy under the terms of
UN Security Council Resolution 242 to negotiate the implementation of the resolution. The governments of
Israel,
Egypt,
Jordan, and
Lebanon recognized Jarring's appointment and agreed to participate in his
shuttle diplomacy although they differed on key points of interpretation of the resolution. The government of
Syria rejected Jarring's mission on grounds that total Israeli withdrawal was a prerequisite for further negotiations. After denouncing it in 1967, Syria "conditionally" accepted the resolution in March 1972. Jarring's report was presented to the public on 4 January 1971. On 8 February, he submitted to the Egyptian and Israeli governments his most detailed plan for an Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. Egypt responded by stating that it would "only be willing to enter into a peace agreement with Israel" after Israel agreed to a set of seven terms including the "withdrawal of the Israeli armed forces from all the territories occupied since 5 June 1967." Israel responded that it "views favourably the expression by the UAR [the United Arab Republic was then the official name of Egypt] of its readiness to enter into a peace agreement with Israel and reiterates that it is prepared for meaningful negotiations on all subjects relevant to a peace agreement between the two countries." Another government statement said, "As its condition for peace, Egypt would have Israel restore its past territorial vulnerability. This Israel will never do." and Israeli Prime Minister
Golda Meir meeting on 1 March 1973 in the Oval Office. National Security Advisor
Henry Kissinger is to the right of Nixon. On 28 February 1973, during a visit in
Washington, DC, Israeli Prime Minister
Golda Meir agreed with the then U.S. National Security Advisor
Henry Kissinger's peace proposal based on "security versus sovereignty" in which Israel would accept Egyptian sovereignty over all of the
Sinai Peninsula, and Egypt would accept Israeli presence in some Sinai strategic positions. ==References==