Word: fawzi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before they met, Hammarskjold talked with Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi for three hours...
With India and five other nations as cosponsors, Lodge's resolutions passed. The first carried 74 to 2, with only France siding with Israel. The second was then adopted, 56 to 0, the Arab and Soviet blocs abstaining. But before passage, Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi, seconded by Menon, rose to dispute Lodge's interpretation of the loosely phrased second resolution. The UNEF, he said, was not in Egypt "to resolve any question or to settle any problem" but to "secure the withdrawal" of the Israeli invaders. After such withdrawal, he said, the UNEF must "take...
...continued cocky as ever. Reporting on a visit to Cairo, Lebanon's Foreign Minister Charles Malik said in Paris that Nasser insists "that no Suez settlement is possible as long as Israel does not withdraw its troops behind the 1949 armistice lines." Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi demanded a special U.N. Assembly session on Israel's delay in evacuating Sinai and Gaza, on threat of "extremely serious consequences." These might include a threat to halt work on the canal, which would bring down on Nasser's head the wrath...
...already contributed to the U.N. to help Austria meet the burdens imposed on it by the influx of some 130,000 Hungarian refugees. -j[¶ Prodded the Cairo government to show good faith by acting to restore Middle East stability. In conversation with Egyptian Foreign Minister Fawzi in Washington and President Nasser in Cairo, U.S. officials urged prompt resumption of talks aimed at clearing the Suez, settling its international status with Britain and France, and resolving the long-standing Arab-Israeli dispute...
...endorse the 18-nations London conference demand for international control of the canal, a demand that Egypt had rejected often and emphatically, and Russia as well. "A beginning has been made," Lloyd told the council. "The hard problems lie ahead." The hardest problem was right on hand-both Fawzi and Russia's Dmitry Shepilov balked at reviving the point of international control. There was little more to be said, so just before midnight the council came to the vote. Nine delegates voted for all the Anglo-French resolution, but Shepilov, with Yugoslavia's Koca Popovic for company, cast...