The World - News from Sept. 14, 1986
Right-wing members of Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres’ coalition government vowed to block his efforts to convene an international Middle East conference, which Peres and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had agreed on last Friday at their summit in Alexandria, Egypt. “In Israel there is no agreement for this, and I don’t think we’ll see such a conference,” Moshe Arens, a Likud minister without portfolio, told Israel Radio. The Likud objects to a broad framework for talks with Arab states and prefers negotiations on a country-by-country basis. The Herut movement, which belongs to the conservative Likud Bloc, said that it would try to block Peres’ agreement with Mubarak.
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