Identifier
Created
Classification
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05CAIRO6279
2005-08-16 07:54:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Cairo
Cable title:  

ENSURING A PEACEFUL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: EGYPTIAN

Tags:  PREL PGOV PTER KPAL EG IS GZ 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L CAIRO 006279 

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/16/2015
TAGS: PREL PGOV PTER KPAL EG IS GZ
SUBJECT: ENSURING A PEACEFUL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: EGYPTIAN
RESPONSE

REF: STATE 147192 (NOTAL)

Classified by Charge Stuart Jones for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).

C O N F I D E N T I A L CAIRO 006279

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/16/2015
TAGS: PREL PGOV PTER KPAL EG IS GZ
SUBJECT: ENSURING A PEACEFUL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: EGYPTIAN
RESPONSE

REF: STATE 147192 (NOTAL)

Classified by Charge Stuart Jones for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).


1. (C) The Charge delivered reftel demarche on August 14 to
Presidential Spokesman and Policy Advisor Soliman Awad. Awad
confirmed Egypt's keen desire to see a successful Israeli
withdrawal from Gaza and stated that the GOE had communicated
with all Palestinian factions to encourage cooperation and
non-violence in the wake of the Israeli withdrawal. Egypt,
Awad stressed, was following events closely, continued to
maintain trainers and advisors in Gaza to assist the
Palestinian Authority to manage the process professionally,
and was prepared to deploy its border guards to the Egyptian
side of the Gaza border once final agreement with Israel was
reached. Furthermore, President Mubarak was actively
encouraging his Arab counterparts, Awad said, to redirect any
support away from Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and
toward the Palestinian Authority. The President, he
continued, during his consultations to arrange an Arab Summit
in Egypt, had stressed the importance of establishing the PA
as the sole government for the Palestinian people.


2. (C) In a separate meeting August 15 to discuss UN issues
(septel),the Charge delivered reftel demarche to Acting MFA
Chef du Cabinet Yasser Morad. Stressing that Egypt had shown
tremendous leadership in supporting the disengagement process
already, the Charge noted that our demarche was being
delivered in a number of other local capitals where support
had been less forthcoming. Morad responded that the GOE was
doing everything it could to encourage a successful and
peaceful disengagement. Furthermore, he committed to sharing
the U.S. message within the GOE bureaucracy.


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