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The Reagan Administration: Update on Lebanon Talks

(January 20, 1983)

The Reagan Administration:
Update on Lebanon Talks

(January 20, 1983)


Reagan Administration: Table of Contents | Biography | Lebanon Policy


This State Department memo provides an update on negotiations between Israel and Lebanon.

U.S. efforts in Lebanon are focused now on negotiations to achieve the rapid withdrawal of all external forces--Israeli, Syrian and Palestinian--from Lebanon. We have the following policy objectives:

The speedy withdrawal of all external forces from Lebanon;

A sovereign Lebanon under a strong central authority able to exercise control throughout its territory; and,

Security for Israel from threats emanating from Lebanese territory.

 


Source: CIA