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VOLUMES 1-2: 1947-1974
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IX. THE SINAI CAMPAIGN
13. Letter from Foreign Minister Golda Meir to Secretary-General Hammarskjold, 8 November 1956.
On November-5 and 7, Secretary-General Hammarskjold informed Israel's Foreign Minister of the Resolutions passed by the General Assembly. In her reply of 8 November, the Foreign Minister informed. the Secretary-General of the decision of the Government of Israel to withdraw its forces from Egypt immediately "upon the conclusion of satisfactory arrangements with the United Nations in connection with the emergency international force."
Sir,
I thank you for your cable of 5 November and also of yesterday transmitting the two Resolutions passed yesterday by the First Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly. I have the honour on behalf of the Government of Israel to inform you that the Government of Israel will willingly withdraw its forces from Egypt immediately upon the conclusion of satisfactory arrangements with the United Nations in connection with the emergency international force.
At the same time, and without prejudice to this undertaking, I wish to state that while, as a result of the Sinai operations we have succeeded in destroying many of the fidayun gangs and the bases from which they were planned and directed, we must repeat our urgent request to the United Nations to call upon Egypt, which has consistently maintained that it is in a state of war with Israel, to renounce that position, to abandon its policy of boycott and blockade, to cease the sending into Israel of murder gangs, and, in accordance with its obligations under the United Nations Charter to live at peace with member-States, to enter into direct peace negotiations with Israel.
Please accept, Sir, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration.
Golda Meir
Minister for Foreign Affairs
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