Word: mahmoud
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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...
...policy 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...
...first question before the Security Council was: What is Egypt's mood on the Suez question, hard or malleable? Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi, whose ability as a diplomat is best described by the fact that he has held top jobs under both King Farouk and President Nasser, leaned over the horseshoe table and started to talk. First, bald Mahmoud Fawzi recited in his soft voice Egypt's familiar grievances against the French and British. Then he purred: "Foremost in importance [is] a system of cooperation between the Egyptian authority operating the Suez canal and the users...
...Russia's new Foreign Minister left Cairo, he shook hands with Egyptian Foreign Minister Dr. Mahmoud Fawzi, asked: "How long does it take to become a good diplomat?" Replied Fawzi: "I don't think you need any lessons...