Key Information
Reference code
FIFTY YEARS WAR 8/27
Title
Transcript of interview, 1997, with Joseph Sisco, former US Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East and South Asia
Date(s)
- 1997 Mar 21 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
18pp
Scope and content
Typescript transcript of filmed interview with Joseph John Sisco, US Assistant Secretary of State for international organisation affairs 1965-1969, and Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East and South Asia 1969-1974, describing his visit with Henry Alfred Kissinger, National Security Advisor to US President 1969-1975, to Moscow to discuss the ceasefire arrangements between Israeli and Egypt, and develop the UN Security Council Resolution 338, (Oct 1973); Kissinger's meeting with Hafez al-Assad, Syrian President 1971-2000, Assad's response to invitation to the Geneva Peace Conference (5 Dec 1973). 18pp