The Fahd Peace Plan, Aug. 6, 1981

[Based on an interview with Saudi Arabian Prince Fahd ibn abd al-Aziz, heir

apparent and deputy prime minister of the Saudi Council of Ministers, as

broadcast by the Riyadh Domestic Service:]

There are a number of principles which may be taken as guidelines toward a

just settlement; they are principles which the United Nations has taken and

reiterated many times in the last few years. They are:

1. Israel should withdraw from all Arab territory occupied in 1967,

including Arab Jerusalem.

2. The Israeli settlements built on Arab land after 1967 should be

dismantled.

3. A guarantee of freedom of worship for all religions in the Holy

Places.

4. An affirmation of the right of the Palestinian people to return to

their homes and to compensate those who do not wish to return.

5. That the West Bank and the Gaza Strip should have a transitional

period, under the auspices of the United Nations, for a period not exceeding

several months.

6. That an independent Palestinian state should be set up with Jerusalem

as its capital.

7. That all states in the region should be able to live in peace.

8. That the United Nations or member states of the United Nations should

guarantee to execute these principles.

As I have said, the principles I have mentioned are not of my own making;

I did not invent them--they are General Assembly decisions. They may be summed

up in one principle, to emenate from the security council, and to provide a

framework for a comprehensive and just settlement.

I wish to reaffirm that the principles of a just comprehensive solution

have become familiar and do not require great effort:

1. An end to unlimited American support for Israel.

2. An end to Israeli arrogance, whose ugliest facet is embodied in (Prime

Minister Menachem) Begin's government. This condition will be automatically

fulfilled if the first condition is fulfilled.

3. A recognition that, as Yasir Arafat says, the Palestinian figure is the

basic figure in the Middle Eastern question.