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Although it was highly unusual for Aziz to deal with Rajavi, Tehran had more reason to be concerned about Aziz's meetings in Paris with Egyptian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Butros Ghali and with French officials. Egypt has provided Iraq with ammunition and spare parts. In response, the Iraqi regime, a hard-line Arab government that once advocated the ostracism of Egypt after it signed a peace treaty with Israel, has become an outspoken proponent of Egypt's return to the Arab fold. After meeting with Ghali, Aziz said that Baghdad was committed to the "total...
Radical Arabs were exultant at the outcome. Libya's Obeidi pronounced the Fahd plan "finished." In Egypt, meanwhile, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Butros Ghali declared that the collapse of the summit vindicated his country's Camp David agreements with Israel, and showed that Arab decisions made without consulting Egypt were doomed to failure (Egypt was suspended from Arab League deliberations in March 1979, after signing the Camp David accords). In Jerusalem, Israelis speculated that the position of P.L.O. Leader Arafat had been undermined. But among the 1.3 million Palestinians on the Israeli-occupied West Bank...
...reaction, in general, stressed the fact that Labor and Likud have essentially the same foreign policy. In Cairo, however, there was deep concern and a more profound understanding of the damage a weak government could do the Camp David peace accords. Egyptian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Butros Ghali declared that his government had hoped that a strong Israeli government would emerge, "capable of pursuing negotiations and of implementing the provisions of the peace treaty and other agreements...
...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...