Word: mubarak
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Nonetheless, the diplomatic flurry had other modest symbolic achievements: Arens met with President Hosni Mubarak, marking the first time since 1982 that an Egyptian leader has been willing to talk with a member of Israel's right- wing Likud bloc. That very act seemed to signal some thaw in the "cold peace" that prevails between the two countries. Shevardnadze's revival of the international-conference proposal skillfully shored up the Arab moderates who have long advocated it, and his presence in Cairo, the first visit by a Soviet Foreign Minister since 1975, invigorated long-dormant Soviet influence in Egypt...
Bush, on his first overseas trip as U.S. chief executive, met for lunch with French President Francois Mitterrand. He also met with Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita; King Hussein of Jordan; Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak; Chaim Herzog, president of Israel and leaders from from Portugal and Thailand...
Shamir's sneak preview, however, offered nothing really new. Palestinian autonomy and negotiations on a final settlement five years later are ideas drawn from the 1978 Camp David accords, and Arab leaders, except Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, have adamantly rejected them all along. Nor are any leaders suddenly likely to embrace such a peace plan, especially now that the P.L.O. has launched its own diplomatic initiative...
...Mubarak said that Shamir should not fear that Arab states will gang up on Israel during negotiations. "Frankly speaking," he said, "I wonder why he fears an international conference. It will lead immediately to direct negotiations," as Shamir demands. Shamir is now suggesting he might countenance U.N. sponsorship to launch peace talks, but he remains firmly opposed to any more substantive international participation. In a separate interview in Jerusalem, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Arens explained why. At an international conference, he said, "there's the danger of having pressure applied to you, not by the party with whom you have...
...conditions for peace have not been so ripe since the state of Israel was founded in 1948. The trend is toward moderation. Egypt has a treaty with Israel, Jordan at least wants to resolve the conflict, and the P.L.O. seems ready to talk rather than fight. Radical Arabs, said Mubarak, are increasingly feeling "cornered." At an Arab League meeting expected soon, Hussein will lead a moderate attempt to reinstate Egypt, expelled for signing the peace treaty with Israel in 1979. He also wants to take away the statutory authority of the radicals to paralyze moderate Arab initiatives with a veto...