| President Carter's Cairo Arrival Speech | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1192 |
| Catalog #: | 494579 | |
| Clip Number: | 494579-4 | |
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| Timecode: | 00:18:36 - 00:22:58 | |
| Location: | Cairo, Egypt | |
| Year Shot: | 1979 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Conference INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Misc. LOCATIONS/AFRICA: Egypt, Cairo PERSONALITIES: Carter, Jimmy PERSONALITIES: Sadat, Anwar el | |
| Description: | President Carter continues: "Our hope is to achieve an agreement which is honorable, just, and which provides security for each of the negotiating parties. But above all, our purpose is to achieve a peace that will last. If the promise of peace is to be fully realized for the people of Israel and Egypt, then others must be encouraged to join the process of resolving differences through negotiations and accommodations. The United States will work with any and all parties who are committed to these principles of genuine peace and security. As the relations among us grow stronger, we can all work more effectively to bring stability to the Middle East region as a whole. President Sadat has written, and I quote,’No problem should ever be regarded as insuperable.’ (MCU President Anwar Sadat and Jehan Sadat.) In recent months, we've overcome many problems that once seemed insurmountable. I pray that, with God's help, we may remove the remaining obstacles to the conclusion of a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel and continue the negotiations with great determination on other issues, in accordance with the Camp David agreements. The most important condition for success has already been met, the sincere conviction on both sides that peace is preferable to war, that differences can better be settled by the exercise of reason than by the spilling of blood. The people of Egypt have spilled much blood. And in the eyes of the women, in particular, on the streets and in the balconies in the last few minutes, we've seen a desire and a hunger and a prayer that their sons and their husbands would never again have to suffer in a cause of combat and war. President Sadat and I, in the car together, repledged ourselves not to disappoint those here, in Israel, among the Palestinians, among the countries also presently in a state of war, who depend on us and others to bring the long unrealized but deeply desired state of peace to this region. Like you, Mr. President, I am dedicated to the cause of peace. Like you, Mr. President, I'm determined to persevere. Our common dedication, our common determination is rooted in the soil of common religious truth. Many signs said, ‘We believe in God.’ You and I, Mr. President, believe in God. We believe in truth, that truth takes different forms. But its underlying message is the same, it's a message of love, of faith, and of peace. As we work together in the crucial discussions that are about to begin, let us pray God, in the words of the Christian Gospel, ‘to guide our feet into the way of peace.’" President Anwar Sadat and President Jimmy Carter shake hands while their wives watch smilingly. | |
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