Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08CAIRO362
2008-02-25 11:56:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Cairo
Cable title:
ENCOURAGING EGYPTIAN ATTENDANCE AT THE ARAB
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C O N F I D E N T I A L CAIRO 000362
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/25/2018
TAGS: PGOV PREL IZ EG
SUBJECT: ENCOURAGING EGYPTIAN ATTENDANCE AT THE ARAB
PARLIAMENTARY MEETING IN ERBIL
REF: SECSTATE 18226
Classified By: Minister-Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs
William R. Stewart, for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
(C) In a February 25 meeting with the Speaker of the People's
Assembly, Ahmed Fathi Surour, the Ambassador urged that
Surour attend the March 11-13 Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union
meeting in Erbil, Iraq, noting that his participation would
send a strong signal to both Iraq and Iran. Surour, citing
the 2005 assassination of Egypt's ambassador in Baghdad,
commented that "it would not be easy for me to go to Iraq."
He did, however, pledge to send an Egyptian delegation to
Erbil, led by either the chair of parliament's Arab Affairs
Committee, Saad Selim El Gamal, or by one of the two deputy
speakers of the People's Assembly, Zainab Radwan or Mustafa
Abdel Aziz.
RICCIARDONE
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/25/2018
TAGS: PGOV PREL IZ EG
SUBJECT: ENCOURAGING EGYPTIAN ATTENDANCE AT THE ARAB
PARLIAMENTARY MEETING IN ERBIL
REF: SECSTATE 18226
Classified By: Minister-Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs
William R. Stewart, for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
(C) In a February 25 meeting with the Speaker of the People's
Assembly, Ahmed Fathi Surour, the Ambassador urged that
Surour attend the March 11-13 Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union
meeting in Erbil, Iraq, noting that his participation would
send a strong signal to both Iraq and Iran. Surour, citing
the 2005 assassination of Egypt's ambassador in Baghdad,
commented that "it would not be easy for me to go to Iraq."
He did, however, pledge to send an Egyptian delegation to
Erbil, led by either the chair of parliament's Arab Affairs
Committee, Saad Selim El Gamal, or by one of the two deputy
speakers of the People's Assembly, Zainab Radwan or Mustafa
Abdel Aziz.
RICCIARDONE