- Title: U.A.R. AND U.K. EXCHANGE AMBASSADORS
- Date: 14th December 1967
- Summary: SIR HAROLD BEELEY AND FAMILY ARRIVING AT CAIRO AIRPORT; DR. AHMAD HASSAN EL-FIKKY ARRIVING AT LONDON AIRPORT AND TALKING TO NEWSMEN - SOUND. REPORTER: "DOES YOUR GOVERNMENT SEE ANY HOPE OF AN EARLY SETTLEMENT OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI WAR?" EL-FIKKY: "IT DEPENDS REALLY ABOUT WHAT THE ENEMY IS WILLING TO DO. THE ENEMY IS OCCUPYING OUR TERRITORY. IT IS THERE ALL HIS STATEMENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENT UNTIL NOW ARE CONTRARY TO A FUTURE PEACE SETTLEMENT." 1. SV BEELEY DOWN AIRCRAFT STEPS 0.06 2. SV BEELEY AND WIFE GREETED 0.11 3. SV PARTY ACROSS TARMAC 0.17 4. SV SIGN 'CAIRO AIRPORT' 0.20 5. SV BEELEY AND WIFE IN AIRPORT LOUNGE 0.28 6. CU WIFE 0.35 7. CU BEELEY SPEAKS TO PRESS (NO SOUND) 0.40 8. SV BEELEY AND WIFE WITH CHILDREN 0.48 LONDON 9. SV EL-FIKKY DOWN STEPS OF AIRCRAFT AND GREETED (NATURAL SOUND) 1.05 10. CU CAMERAMAN 1.07 11. SV EL-FIKKY WITH OFFICIALS 1.12 12. SV EL-FIKKY WAVES TO CROWD 1.17 13. CU EL-FIKKY AND WIFE 1.20 14. SV CAMERAMAN 1.21 15. GV POLICEMAN 1.25 16. CU EL-FIKKY 1.28 17. GV PRESS CONFERENCE 1.29 18. CU EL-FIKKY QUESTIONED 2.01 SOUND BEGINS: "DOES YOUR GOVERNMENT........" SOUND ENDS: "....FUTURE PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT." Initials AA/V-VS/RM/OS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 29th December 1967 12:00
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- Location: CAIRO AND LONDON
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- Country: Egypt England United Kingdom
- Reuters ID: LVAK61Y1KTP1521M0ODTCPOXNYK
- Story Text: THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR-DESIGNATE TO THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC, SIR HAROLD BEELEY, ARRIVED IN CAIRO LAST NIGHT (TUESDAY) AND ANNOUNCED THAT HIS FIRST TASK WOULD BE TO PRESS FOR THE REOPENING OF THE SUEZ CANAL. SIR HAROLD'S ARRIVAL MARKED THE RESUMPTION OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES, BROKEN OFF BY THE U.A.R. WHEN THE IAN SMITH REGIME DECLARED RHODESIAN INDEPENDENCE.
TODAY THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC AMBASSADOR-DESIGNATE, DR. AHMAD HASSAN EL-FIKKY FLEW INTO LONDON. THE 57 YEAR-OLD EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR TOLD NEWSMEN AT THE AIRPORT: "I COME HERE FULL OF ANTICIPATION OF HELPING TO USHER IN A NEW ERA OF PURPOSEFUL RELATIONS."
SIR HAROLD BEELEY WAS ACCOMPANIED BY HIS WIFE AND TWO DAUGHTERS. HE ALSO BOUGHT THE FAMILY'S TWO PET CATS. AT CAIRO AIRPORT TO GREET HIM WAS THE FOREIGN MINISTRY HEAD OF PROTOCOL, MR. GAMAL IZZAT, AND THE HEAD OF THE MINISTRY'S WESTERN EUROPEAN SECTION, MR. GAMAL MANSOUR. SIR HAROLD WAS PREVIOUSLY AMBASSADOR TO THE U.A.R. BETWEEN 1961 - 1964.
SPEAKING TO NEWSMEN, SIR HAROLD SAID IT WAS NOT OFTEN THAT A GOVERNMENT SENT AN AMBASSADOR BACK A SECOND TIME TO A POST HE'D PREVIOUSLY HELD. IT MEANT THE GOVERNMENT ATTACHED PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE TO THE COUNTRY TO WHICH HE RETURNED.
DR. AHMAD HASSAN EL-FIKKY TOLD REPORTERS AN ANSWER TO QUESTIONS THAT EGYPT WAS THE FIRST NATION TO WANT TO SEE THE SUEZ CANAL OPERATING NORMALLY AGAIN.
HE WAS ALSO ASKED ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST WAR.
SYNOPSIS: SIR HAROLD BEELEY,THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR-DESIGNATE TO THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC, ARRIVED IN CAIRO LAST NIGHT (TUESDAY). HIS ARRIVAL MARKED THE RESUMPTION OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES, BROKEN OFF BY THE U.A.R. IN 1965 WHEN THE IAN SMITH REGIME DECLARED RHODESIAN INDEPENDENCE.
SIR HAROLD WAS ACCOMPANIED BY HIS WIFE, HIS TWO DAUGHTERS, AND THE FAMILY'S TWO PET CATS. HE TOLD NEWSMEN AT THE AIRPORT THAT HIS FIRST TASK WOULD BE TO PRESS FOR THE REOPENING OF THE SUEZ CANAL.
HE SAID THAT IT WAS NOT OFTEN THAT AN AMBASSADOR RETURNED TO A POST HE HAD PREVIOUSLY HELD. IT MEANT THAT THE GOVERNMENT ATTACHED PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE TO THE COUNTRY TO WHICH HE RETURNED.
READER OVER SOUND
TODAY THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC AMBASSADOR-DESIGNATE FLEW INTO LONDON. HE IS DR. AHMAD HASSAN EL-FIKKY. THE 57 YEAR-OLD DIPLOMAT TOLD NEWSMEN THAT HE CAME FULL OF ANTICIPATION OF HELPING TO USHER IN A NEW ERA OF PURPOSEFUL ANGLO-EGYPTIAN RELATIONS.
ANSWERING REPORTERS' QUESTIONS, DR. AHMAD HASSAN EL-FIKKY SAID THAT EGYPT WAS THE FIRST NATION TO WANT TO SEE THE SUEZ CANAL OPERATING NORMALLY AGAIN. HE WAS ALSO ASKED ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST WAR......
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