Word: moussa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Egyptian Foreign Minister Moussa's visit to India for G-15 conference...
...Cairo last week Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres shook hands on a new agreement they insisted had brought the stalled peace plan much closer to fruition. Negotiated with the help of Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa and President Hosni Mubarak, the accord settled a number of sticky disputes that have delayed the transfer of power, notably concerns about the safety of Jewish settlers in the enclaves and the control of border crossings into the occupied territories. But the pact leaves to further negotiations numerous other issues, including the size of the Jericho district and economic relationships. Until they...
...when the Egyptians summoned journalists for the signing ceremony, Peres suddenly received a telephone call from Rabin. Army officers still had questions about the procedures for screening Palestinians coming across the Allenby Bridge from Jordan into the West Bank. Mubarak sent a personal message to Rabin urging flexibility, while Moussa offered a compromise that allowed a Palestinian policeman to join an Israeli policeman at the magnetic gate for Palestinian travelers. It was not until after 11 p.m. that Peres and Arafat initialed the agreement...
...Secretary of State Warren M Christopher made it abundantly clear that the U.S. was not about to do Egypt's dirty work for it. In an elegantly staged buck passing he had Ambassador Robert Pelletreau inform the Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa that since Rahman was not charged with a crime in the United States he could voluntarily leave the U.S. at any time in favor of a sympathetic third country such as the Sudan. Only a formal extradition request could keep him behind bars for the moment...
...regimes. In the case of Mali, the Swiss Foreign Ministry has decided to reroute part of its country's aid to Mali to pay for Swiss lawyers -- clever rerouting -- to investigate whether Swiss aid money was wrongfully deposited in Swiss banks during the 23-year reign of deposed President Moussa Traore. Nigerian President Ibrahim Babangida has a bolder if unrealistic idea: he suggested last year that African states might demand reparations from the West for the damage done by the slave trade. The estimated cost: $130 trillion in loss of people and production potential over the centuries. The estimated chance...