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CAIRO, Egypt -- Egypt expressed unusually strong support on Tuesday for the Bush administration's efforts to hold an international conference this fall to begin negotiating peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.
Egypt's leaders, including President Hosni Mubarak, have criticized aspects of the effort, but after meetings here with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said he believed that the administration was determined to have meaningful talks.
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...Egypt's foreign minister, Ahmed Abul Gheit, however, blamed Iran and said that the...
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The U.S. has been seen by some observers as slow to speak out forcefully regarding the election. But last week State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters, "The United States remains committed to supporting free and impartial elections in Egypt," holding the Egyptian government to its own commitment to "fair and transparent elections.
The signs are not very positive for having free elections," she said. "There have been a lot of steps that the Egyptian government has taken recently to cut down the size of opposition, to diminish the number of opposition candidates who can run, to encumber their freedom to campaign, to control media coverage of the elections and prevent the opposition from using technological means like text messages and so forth to mobilize for the electi...
... impartial elections," Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif told journalists. According to press reports... accused of libeling Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit. The minister had filed a complaint alleging...
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In statements made following a meeting with President Mubarak the same day, [Robert Gates] said that U.S. attempts to engage Iran have two objectives: first, to contain Iran's nuclear program that the U.S., like Israel, believes to be of a military nature; second, to halt "Iran's destabilizing efforts through the region." According to Gates "reaching out to Iran with an open hand doesn't in any way affect our strategic cooperation with Egypt.
Despite their misgivings, Egyptian officials are aware that it is becoming difficult to reverse the tide of changed U.S. poli- cy. Beyond the modest portrayal afforded by Gates to dialogue efforts at present, Egyptian embassies report that U.S.-Iranian activities go far beyond "the few contacts" and "exploration phase" that Gates and [Dennis Ross]...
... Party (NDP), and Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit, said that a just settlement of the Ara...
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El ministro de Asuntos Exteriores egipcio, Ahmed Abul Gheit, dijo en Jerusalén a su colega jordano...
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..., Omar Suleiman, con su homólogo Ahmed Abul Gheit y con el primer ministro, Ahmed Nazif. ...
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CAIRO - Protesters set themselves on fire in Egypt, Mauritania and Algeria on Monday in apparent copycat self-immolation attempts inspired by the act that helped trigger a popular uprising in Tunisia.
The incidents, while isolated, reflect the growing despair among the public of many Arab regimes resisting reform. They are deeply symbolic means of protest in a region that has little or no tolerance for dissent.
...," said veteran Egyptian columnist Salama Ahmed Salama. The attempted self-immolation in Cairo on ...But Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit ruled out the possibility that Tunisia's pol...
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WASHINGTON - The United States recalled its ambassador and considered further sanctions against Syria on Tuesday, a day after the fiery assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in downtown Beirut.
The actions signaled that the Bush administration intends to use Hariri's death to press demands that Syria withdraw its troops from Lebanon and stop supporting terrorism, even without proof that Damascus was involved in the assassination.
...Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit, in Washington for meetings with Rice a...
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News Advisory:
An Egyptian Perspective on Events in the Middle East
H.E. Ahmed Abul-Gheit, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arab Repu...
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Iranian leaders say that years of efforts to improve relations with the country's Arab neighbors are being undermined by the hard- line policies of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the nation's support for Shi'ite groups in Iraq.
Some diplomats and foreign policy analysts argue that the United States is working to hasten this process by encouraging the formation of a Sunni political coalition in Baghdad with the tacit support of the region's conservative Arab states.
...Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan...