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...intention into something more formal, e.g., a multilateral treaty, 2) writing into it formal arrangements for cooperation between Egypt and canal users, and 3) acknowledging the six-point, Western-sponsored canal resolution voted by the United Nations Security Council last October. In talks with Nasser and Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi, Hare did manage to get them to make some minor improvements in their original version, e.g., by adding a provision that arbitration-tribunal decisions "shall be made by a majority," meaning that the Egyptian member will have no veto. But on the other three points Nasser refused...
That evening, as Jackson cleared the northern end of the canal and sailed into the Mediterranean, Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi released a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, declaring: "The government of Egypt are pleased to announce that the Suez Canal is now open for normal traffic." Accompanying the letter was a "declaration" of President Gamal Abdel Nasser's charter for the operation of the canal. The declaration, wrote Fawzi, "constitutes an international instrument," and he asked Hammarskjold to register it as such...
...anybody but a professional negotiator, the progress made in the U.S.'s negotiations with Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser was imperceptible. But U.S. Ambassador Raymond Hare reportedly detected hope in the long talks he has been conducting in Cairo with Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi, and the Egyptian attitude is described as polite and reasonable. As a result, the U.S. decided against taking the problem to the U.N. Security Council, where there is also a strong likelihood that Soviet Russia would veto any formula that might conceivably suit both Egypt and Western user nations...
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...