ISRAEL/EGYPT: UNITED STATES VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE ARRIVES IN TEL AVIV FOR TALKS WITH ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER SHIMON PERES
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ISRAEL/EGYPT: UNITED STATES VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE ARRIVES IN TEL AVIV FOR TALKS WITH ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER SHIMON PERES
- Title: ISRAEL/EGYPT: UNITED STATES VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE ARRIVES IN TEL AVIV FOR TALKS WITH ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER SHIMON PERES
- Date: 15th January 1996
- Summary: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL/ CAIRO, EGYPT (JANUARY 15, 1996) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) BEN GURION AIRPORT, TEL AVIV, ISRAEL 1. SV UNITED STATES VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE'S PLANE ARRIVING AT BEN GURION AIRPORT 0.09 2. SV GORE LEAVING PLANE 0.20 3. SV GORE SHAKING HANDS WITH ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER SHIMON PERES 0.30 4. SV GORE AND PERES WALKING DOWN THE RED CARPET 0.38 5. SCU ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER SHIMON PERES THANKING THE UNITED STATES FOR ITS SUPPORT (ENGLISH) 0.59 CAIRO, EGYPT 6. SV EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK SEATED INFORMALLY WITH U.S. VICE-PRESIDENT AL GORE AND MEMBERS OF THEIR DELEGATIONS 1.17 7. SV MUBARAK AND GORE ENTER FOR NEWS CONFERENCE 1.28 8. SCU GORE SAYING THEIR TASK IS TO WORK EVEN MORE CLOSELY IN THE COMING MONTHS AND YEARS BOTH WITHIN PARTNERSHIP AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST TO FORGE A GREATER ALLIANCE WITH ALL THOSE CITIZENS WHO REJECT EXTREMISM AND ARE WILLING TO TAKE QUIET RISKS FOR PEACE AND PROGRESS (ENGLISH) 2.02 9. SV GORE'S CAR IN DOWNTOWN CAIRO 2.11 10. SV GORE LOOKING AT A CHAIR IN MARKET 2.22 SEQUENCE 5 TRANSCRIPT: PERES : "WE WELCOME YOU AS A LONGTIME FRIEND OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL AND OF OUR PEOPLE. YOU HAVE STOOD BY US IN DIFFICULT DAYS AND IN GOOD DAYS AND WE SALUTE YOU FOR THEM." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL/ CAIRO, EGYPT
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- Country: AFRICA ASIA Egypt Israel MIDDLE EAST
- Reuters ID: LVA19P15F6V6H8UFHD5IZ8T9EKHY
- Story Text: United States Vice President Al Gore arrived in Tel Aviv on Monday (January 15) where he will hold talks with Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres on the Middle East peace process.
During his two-day visit, Gore will also meet Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat and Palestinian businessmen in Jericho.
Gore left Cairo earlier on Monday, after discussing bilateral trade and economic cooperation with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
The Vice President, whose one-day visit to Egypt was aimed at promoting a fledgling Egyptian-American "partnership for economic growth", spoke to a variety of merchants in the crowded medieval quarter, inside Cairo's 900-year-old city walls.
There, he met two beneficiaries of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), a scheme offering loans to small businesses, which in Egypt have little or no chance of getting financial help from local banks.
"Small businesses and...micro-enterprises create most of the new jobs in any economy," said Gore, who earlier on Monday discussed the progress of Egypt's economic reforms with President Mubarak.
"Egypt's population is growing so rapidly that the economy has to produce more and more jobs each year," Gore added, echoing recent comments of Egypt's new Prime Minister Kamal Ganzouri.
At a news conference, President Mubarak joined in the enthusiasm, saying the approach of the new century had persuaded Egyptians to embrace the "emerging market" mentality.
During his visit, Gore linked economic reform with a Middle East economic summit in Cairo in November.
"It is potentially the most exciting period of market opening, economic reform and rising living standards that Egypt has ever seen. We stand ready...to work closely to maximise the potential for this period of dynamic and dramatic change," he enthused after more than three-hours of talks with Mubarak.
Ganzouri and his economic ministers have taken the country by surprise with daily promises of accelerated privatisation, new investment incentives and less bureaucracy with an eye to increasing economic growth to at least eight per cent a year, from an average of at most 3.5 per cent in the first half of the 1990s.
But the cabinet faces an uphill struggle finding jobs for the hundreds of thousands of youth who pour into Egypt's already bursting labour market every year.
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