US envoy, Begin discuss Lebanon foreign-army exit

By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Anne Shutt

September 16, 1982

Jerusalem

US envoy Morris Draper met Prime Minister Menachem Begin hours after Israeli troops moved back into west Beirut Wednesday.

Messrs. Draper and Begin, in a 45-minute meeting, agreed to work out a timetable for the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Lebanon. The first step suggested was a pullout of PLO forces from Tripoli and the Bekaa Valley. Second step: Israel and Syria depart according to a schedule yet to be negotiated.