UAR: SYRIAN PRIME MINISTER MEETS PRESIDENT NASSER FOR TALKS.

Record ID: 276682

  • Title: UAR: SYRIAN PRIME MINISTER MEETS PRESIDENT NASSER FOR TALKS.
  • Date: 24th October 1967
  • Summary: KUBBAH PALACE; ZEAYEN AND SYRIAN DELEGATION; NASSER AND EGYPTIAN DELEGATION. Initials JSU/VS/BOB/MM Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 8th November 1967 12:00
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  • Location: CAIRO, U.A.R.
  • Country: Egypt
  • Reuters ID: LVAD8WMZGVU650O9TDP5TXHOVZUR
  • Story Text: SYRIAN PRIME MINISTER, DR. YOUSSEF ZEAYEN MET PRESIDENT NASSER FOR TALKS ON RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST YESTERDAY (MONDAY) IN THE KUBBAH PLACE IN CAIRO.

    DR. ZEAYEN WAS MET AT THE AIRPORT BY UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC VICE-PRESIDENT ZAKARIA MOHIEDDIN WHO, TOGETHER WITH THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER DR. MAHMUD FAWZY AND OTHERS, FORMED PART OF THE EGYPTIAN DELEGATION AT THE TALKS.

    THE SYRIAN PREMIER, ACCOMPANIED BY DEPUTY PREMIER IBRAHIM MAKHOUS AND FOREIGN MINISTER FAYEZ ISMAIL, HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS THE CURRENT ARAB-ISRAELI SITUATION IN THE LIGHT OF THE SINKING OF THE ISRAELI DESTROYER ELATH BY THE EGYPTIANS ON SATURDAY (21 OCT).

    PRESIDENT NASSER WAS ALSO EXPECTED TO REVIEW WITH DR. ZEAYEN THE TALKS BETWEEN THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT AND SPECIAL BRITISH ENVOY SIR HAROLD BEELEY ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF RENEWING DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH BRITAIN.
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