Egypt - Global Media Post

12:29 am Apr 27, 2010

“Obama fulfills Cairo pledge with entrepreneur summit”
Egypt • United States

“President Barack Obama launches a new effort to build business and social ties to the Muslim world, but analysts say the need for progress on big issues like Middle East peace will overshadow the initiative. Obama hosts a two-day Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship that will bring together about 250 successful business and social entrepreneurs from more than 50 countries, most with large Muslim populations, fulfilling a pledge he made in his Cairo speech to the Islamic world last June”

9:53 pm Mar 28, 2010

“Egypt, Saudi Arabia reject Iranian dialogue”
Egypt • General • Iran • Libya • Saudi Arabia

Arab leaders convene in Sirte

“A proposal presented by Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa to start an Arab-Iranian dialogue was met with resistance on the part of a ‘number of prominent Arab states’ including Egypt and Saudi Arabia, the London-based al-Hayat newspaper reported. According to the report, harsh criticism was leveled at Iraqi President Jalal Talabani who chose to hold a visit in Tehran on Saturday, the same day the 22nd Arab summit opened in Libya. Representing him in Libya was Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari”

10:58 pm Mar 21, 2010

“Ban Ki-moon to Gazans: We stand with you”
Egypt • Israel • Palestine • United Nations • United States

“UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon entered the blockaded Gaza Strip, where 1.5 million people have been under lockdown by Israel and Egypt for nearly three years. Ban has repeatedly called for an end to the blockade, imposed after Hamas seized Gaza in 2007″

9:30 pm Feb 7, 2010

“Abbas awaits US clarification over peace talks”
Egypt • Israel • Jordan • Palestine • United States

“Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he had asked the United States to clarify its offer to mediate indirect peace talks with Israel before he would announce any decision to resume the negotiations. ’Yesterday I met with an American delegation and we held an Egyptian, Jordanian and Palestinian trilateral meeting,’ Abbas said after talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo”

10:46 am Jan 16, 2010

Hamas: “Urges Egypt to stop building Gaza wall”
Egypt • Lebanon • Palestine

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal

“Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal urged Egypt on Friday to stop building an underground wall along its border with Gaza, which the Islamist group has said would further choke the impoverished enclave. ‘We call on the Egyptian leadership to stop building the iron wall… as walls are erected between enemies, not brothers, ‘ the exiled Palestinian Islamist leader said at a conference in Beirut in support of resistance groups. ‘How can the ‘national security’ of any state be used as an excuse to build a wall between Arab brothers?’ he asked”

6:55 pm Jan 10, 2010

UK MP “Galloway thrown out of Egypt”
Egypt • Great Britain

Senior Palestinian Hamas leader Ismail Haniya (R) greets George Galloway (L) during a rally honouring international peace activists in Gaza
UK MP “Galloway has been bundled into a police van and thrown out of Egypt two days after a policeman was killed during clashes involving his mission to deliver aid to Gaza. The MP for Bow and Bethnal Green and an aide were detained by security guards as soon as they stepped on to Egyptian soil”