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Meeting between Hassan, Peres gets U.S. blessing by Joseph Polakoff TSTs Washington correspondent W ASHINGTON—The two-day meeting between Israeli Prime Min ister Shimon Peres and Moroccan King Hassan II at Hassan’ssummer palace in Ifrane in central Morocco received all-out endorsement from the United States, which called on other governments to “support these two leaders” in “an historic oppor tunity to further the cause of peace” in the Middle East. Their meeting, marking the first public talks between top Israeli and Arab leaders since Egyptian president Anwar Sadat’s visit to Jerusalem in November 1977, was welcomed by Sadat’s successor, Hosni Mubarak, while Syria sev ered all ties with Morocco and Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffi declared the meeting violated the treaty of union between Libya and Morocco. Algeria and both Iran and Iraq also condemned Hassan. Unofficial Israeli reaction here welcomed the meeting, but cau tioned against optimism of an im pending Moroccan-Israeli treaty until the results were known and implemented. They pointed out that Peres had met tw'ice previously in private with Hassan without fruition, and that Moshe Dayan, when he was in Prime Minister Menachem Begin’s cabinet, also had talked privately with Hassan without negotiations emerging. Peres’ previous talks were not in his capacity as prime minister. Whether Saudi Arabia, which financially and diplomatically sup ports Syria, Jordan and the Pales tine Liberation Organization, Ara fat and anti-Arafat wings, would back Peres and Hassan was doubted here by Arab sources. “This meet ing will fragment the Arab world more,” an Arab correspondent noted. “We want peace, but not piece-meal.” The U.S. has consis tently regarded Saudi Arabia as a friend and a “moderate” Arab state interested and helpful in achieving peace in the region. The State Department made the following statement: “Yesterday (•July 21) Israeli Prime Minister Peres traveled to Morocco to meet with King Hassan. We applaud this courageous initiative by these two leaders—one which the United States strongly supports. Our con sistent position has been that direct dialogue—direct Arab-lsraeli dia logue-holds out the best prospect for progress toward a just and last ing peace in the Middle East. 1 his is an historic opportunity to further the cause of peace in the region, and the United States urges all governments to support these leaders.” About three hours earlier at the A Public Service ol This Newspaper A The Advertising Council You’re just the type. Donate Blood. + American Red Cross ) The American National Red Cross 1981 White House, presidential spokes man Larry Speakes said their meet ing “symbolized a change that has occurred in the Middle East and creates a context which can enhance the peace process.” While Speakes denounced Syria’s break with Mo rocco as “a negative step, which flies in the face of the changing political environment in the Mid dle East,” a State Department spokesman, Pedro Martinez, who read its statement, declined to comment on either the Syrian or Libyan action. Both the White House and the State Department sought to avoid any indication that the United States was involved in arranging the Peres-Hassan meeting. Speakes said he was aware that the White House learned of the Peres visit “through diplomatic sources” in Morocco, but he was not aware of any relationship between Hassan’s postponement of his visit to Wash ington about two weeks ago because of “fatigue” and the plan for the meeting with Peres. Martinez re-emphasized under questioning that this was the “ini tiative” of Peres and Hassan. The official U.S. view that it had no part in the arrangements was treated with much skepticism by reporters who noted, in addition to the Has san cancellation of his Washington visit, that the U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Pickering was in Jordan the week before the Mo roccan talks were disclosed. In welcoming the meeting, some friends of Israel at the Capitol saw it as a breakthrough, even if no treaty flows from it. One view is that it might precipitate the end of the Unity government of Israel with Peres going into an election as a peacemaker. Yitzhak Shamir is to assume the prime ministry in October under the rotation agree ment. 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