She is a sovereign state with all the perquisites of any other sovereign state. and this time she must be guaranteed the integrity and security of her boundaries and the freedom of her ships to go and come in the Suez Canal and the Gulf of Aqaba. If at all possible. there must also be a feasible and workable limitation on the conventional arms race in the Middle East. and the Soviet Union has the responsibility to do her part in establishing such a limitation. Hopefully. too. some headway can be made in the Arab refugee problems. which have long been the source of deep irritation. Mr. President. all Americans join in the hope that. although difficult days lie ahead. the worst may very soon be in the past. as far as the Middle East is concerned.