Aid for Egypt

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34089, 28 February 1976, Page 15

Aid for Egypt

f.VZ.P .4 Reuter —Copgrtgt rCAIRO. February 27. King Khalid of Saudi Arabia has promised 8300 m in aid to Egypt, to enable it tn meet “the urgent requirements of its people.'’ News of the pledge came in a joint statement issued , simultaneously in Cairo and Riyadh at the end of a State visit to Saudi Arabia by President Sadat of Egypt. The two leaders also declared that it was the col- | ective responsibility of the i Arab States to achieve a ■ lust solution of the Middle East crisis and the Palestine i problem They discussed over five 'days of talks Egypt's (man

cial needs and Arab solidarity. The loint statement sax* that the two leaders urged that “all available means" be used to achieve an Israeli withdrawal from all occupied Arab territory in eluding Jerusalem and 'o “restore the rights of rhe Palestinian people. It was imperative, the two leaders said, that the Palestine Liberation Organisation should take part in all inter national organisations and conferences as the legitimate and sole representative of the Palestinian people. It was necessary, too. that the independence. sovereignly and territorial integ rity of Lebanon should be maintained and that Leba non should continue to cooperate with the Palestine Resistance movement