Word: ghali
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...equal the score with retaliation? In either case, a wider Middle East conflict could have been in the making. Tragically, even the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty would be at risk, and with it a half-decade of diplomatic labor. Following the Israeli attack, in fact, Egyptian Foreign Minister Butros Ghali-despite Cairo's antagonism toward Damascus ever since Camp David-dispatched a blunt warning to Jerusalem: "In the event of an all-out military action, Arab solidarity will prevail over the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty...
...Begin, Sadat indicated last week that he still regards the Camp David framework as the most promising way to a wider peace. Meanwhile, the Egyptians have launched a global diplomatic campaign to explain why Sadat asked for a hiatus in the negotiations. Among the emissaries dispatched abroad is Butros Ghali, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, who flew to Rumania for a five-day official visit. Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu played a key role in preparing Sadat's historic mission to Jerusalem in 1977. Ceausescu, who heads the only East bloc nation that still has diplomatic relations with Israel...
...Israeli maneuvering on Jerusalem is coming at a time when Sadat's foreign policy appears to be subtly changing. At the U.N. last week, for instance, Egypt's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Butros Ghali, forcefully denounced Israel's occupation of Gaza and the West Bank and later voted with other Arab states on the Palestinian resolution. There are also signs that the Arab boycott against Egypt is beginning to give way. In June there were 68,000 foreign Arab visitors to Egypt, nearly twice as many as in the previous June; most were from Saudi...
...Delegates from each side last week ended three days of preliminary talks, unable even to reach agreement on the agenda, with visceral expressions of hostility. At issue was the status of Jerusalem. As U.S. Delegate Herbert Hansell listened in obvious discomfort, Egyptian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Butros Ghali told reporters in Cairo that "Jerusalem is an integral part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and Israel refuses to discuss it." Israeli Minister of Justice Shmuel Tamir tartly responded that "Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and therefore it is not a matter to be negotiated at the autonomy...
Egypt said it welcomed the European initiative. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Butros Ghali called the principles contained in the Venice declaration "compatible" with the Camp David accords and said: "We have no objection to any contacts the Europeans may seek in the common quest for peace." That left Israel, which, to no one's surprise, bluntly rejected the European action, especially the gesture toward the P.L.O. "It is certainly not a constructive act that can be conducive to peace," snapped a senior Israeli Foreign Ministry official. "It can only complicate the peace process." Palestinian reaction was cautious...