EGYPT’S STAND
(Rec. 11 p.m.) NEW YORK. March 3. The Egyptian delegation spokesman at the United Nations headquarters, Mr Abdul Mawgood Hassan, said on Saturday that Egypt should be enabled to return soon to the Gaza Strip and that the Straits of Tiran into the Gulf of Aqaba were “Egyptian territorial waters.” He thus brought into question the two assumptions on which Israel has based its decision to withdraw troops from the Gaza Strip and from the Sharm el Sheikh area of Egypt, overlooking the Straits of Tiran and commanding access to the Gulf of Aqaba. Observers said that this raised the prospect that Egypt and her allies might press opposition to some of the arrangements Israel envisaged. They would have a chance to do so when the General Assembly resumed its debate on the Middle East. *
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28217, 4 March 1957, Page 9
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