Word: hosni
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...shoulder Thursday in his first visit to Egypt since his election. "No Welcome to You Netanyahu," read the opposition paper El-Ahali. "Unwanted, Insufferable guest," said "El-Dustour." Not the obvious greeting from the first Middle Eastern country to sign a peace agreement with Israel. Netanyahu met with President Hosni Mubarak and reiterated his commitment to peace with Syria but remained entrenched in his refusal to return the Golan Heights for peace. He continued to stress that there will be no peace agreements that do not ensure Israel's security. In response to the new prime minister's hardline policies...
WASHINGTON: As leaders of the Arab world come to terms with the election of Benjamin Netanyahu as the next prime minister of Israel, they have begun mapping out their strategies on dealing with what may prove to be a much tougher Israeli government. After meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Damascus on Monday, Syrian President Hafez Assad told reporters that he will not commit to peace talks with Israel until he learns more about the positions of Israel's new prime minister. "We have to be fully alert and on guard," said the Syrian president. Other Arab leaders...
...Also in December, Egyptian security officials uncovered a conspiracy by the extremist group Islamic Jihad to assassinate President Hosni Mubarak. Based on interrogations, which may have included torture, Egyptian authorities are now investigating an informant's tip that bin Laden helped fund the plot...
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 73, is spreading the word that he just might run for another five-year term as U.N. Secretary-General this fall. The headstrong diplomat's adroit dispensation of U.N. patronage could make him formidable, and he would probably be supported by President Hosni Mubarak of his native Egypt and French President Jacques Chirac. That prospect rattles members of the Clinton Administration, since Bob Dole gets applause by pillorying Boutros-Ghali as an architect of Clinton's foreign policy. The Administration does not yet have an alternative, but may try to dissuade Boutros-Ghali by threatening to exercise...
Christopher suggested a summit meeting on terrorism to Clinton. Shimon Peres liked the idea, and so did Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Clinton decided to go ahead. He and Mubarak jointly invited Peres, the P.L.O.'s Yasser Arafat, Jordan's King Hussein, Russian President Boris Yeltsin and European and regional leaders to a conference this week at Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik. Christopher also telephoned Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Shara. "I'll be pleasantly surprised if the Syrians attend," he said...