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King Fahd is expected to work toward a reconciliation with Egypt, from whom the Saudis have been estranged since Egypt and Israel signed their peace treaty in 1979. In a public gesture that confirmed his declared intention to improve ties with his Arab neighbors, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak flew to Riyadh last week to offer his condolences on Khalid's death. He and Fahd, who remained in discreet contact after 1979, embraced warmly at Riyadh airport...
...will be seeing Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin shortly after your return from Europe. The autonomy talks are stalled. Do you plan to ask Begin to change his policies regarding Jewish settlements in the West Bank and his insistence on meeting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Jerusalem...
...looking forward to meeting Prime Minister Begin and discussing ways to advance the peace process under the Camp David framework. Both he and President Mubarak have pledged their countries' commitment to that framework, and we are prepared to work closely with them. Camp David is clear on the future of autonomy [for the Palestinian Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza], and we will proceed based on that understanding. As for the location of the talks, we're working on that now. But they will be resumed. I have no doubt of that...
...Iraq has been supported by a majority of Arab countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the other gulf states. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak declared last week that his country had provided arms and ammunition to Iraq after "we discovered that Iran was getting weapons from every direction." He denied that Egypt had sent fighting men to Iraq but acknowledged that "there may have been some Egyptian volunteers." Mubarak warned Iran against crossing the border into Iraq. He also declared that a forced change of governments in Baghdad would "not serve the interests of the region because it would lead...
...Special Negotiator Richard Fairbanks, meanwhile, was still trying to find a solution to the latest hitch preventing resumption of the Palestinian autonomy talks. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has refused to participate in any negotiations held in Jerusalem, on the premise that his presence there would be interpreted in the Arab world as tacit recognition of Israel's annexation of Arab East Jerusalem. Fairbanks has proposed that Begin and Mubarak both travel to Washington for talks. Israeli officials indicated last week that they would have no objection to that-as long as the talks were also rotated to Jerusalem...