Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...following day the Egyptian Cabinet also unanimously approved the final details of the agreement. Congratulating Begin and Sadat, Carter declared that "the peace which their peoples so clearly need and want is close to reality." Said Sadat in Cairo: "I think we have achieved peace, thanks to Jimmy." Meanwhile, the Israeli and Egyptian Defense Ministers met in Washington to put the final touches on the annex dealing with the military terms of the treaty. The two also separately presented their requests for U.S. military...
...their part, the Israelis were demanding guarantees of oil from the wells that will be turned over to the Egyptians when Cairo regains sovereignty over the Sinai. Sadat refused this, saying that it was not part of the original Camp David agreement. He argued that by giving Israel a long-term petroleum agreement, he would be granting it "favored nation" treatment. This would offend other Arab states, something he could scarcely afford...
...Dayan persisted. How about sticking, he suggested, to the words of the original Camp David agreement? This would mean that Israel would drop its demands for Sinai oil and Egypt would do the same on the matter of a liaison office in Gaza. "Let's leave them for further negotiations," exhorted Dayan. But Begin and most of the Cabinet disagreed...
July 26, 1956. Under the leadership of Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal. An agreement with the Soviet Union has already provided Egypt with large quantities of arms. Nasser repeatedly threatens Israel...
Sept. 4, 1975. Two years of negotiations led by Kissinger shuttling between capitals finally produce a truce agreement, signed in Geneva, that results in Israeli withdrawals from a strip of the Sinai...