Fahmi pleased with reconciliation talks

Press, 11 June 1977, Page 7

Fahmi pleased with reconciliation talks

!NZPA-Reuter Moscow < The Egyptian Foreign < . ister (Mr Ismail Fahmi), I o a mission to mend his i country’s relations with < Moscow, has completed two , dtys of Kremlin talks and met the Communist Party : chief, Mr Leonid Brezhnev. I Mr Fahmi spent four hours with the Soviet For- i eign Ministe- (Mr Andrei ( wyko) discu "oviet- 1 Egyptian problems as well; as the Middle E?st and other! international questions. • “It was a good start.” Mr; Fahmi told reporters after]! the meeting, his first with], Mr Gromyko since an en-l;

counter which apparently;! ended it failure last Octo-jl ber. The Soviet Foreign Min-|l ister said: “We exhausted] I ourselves. We discussed! everything.” Mr Fahmi had said on ar-j' rival in Moscow that he hoped t open a new chapter of co-operation between the two countries. , Moscow anti Cairo have been at odds since President , i Sadat scrapped a friendship i treaty with the Soviet Union 15 months ago. ]i I Moscow’s public campaign; [against Egypt has faded; [slightly in recent months h (after reaching a peak in 1

February, when President; [Sadat was accused of using; I lies an • slander against the I IS. iet Union. [ Western analysts believe; ■ that the Kremlin may be! (willing to concede some! Egyptian requests in retina for Cairo’s full support, for early resumption of the Gen: eva Middle East peace conference — a centra! element of Soviet policy in the area. An Egyptian Embassv spokesman said the subject] (of the conference, under the! ■ co-chairmanship of the; (United States and the Soviet] (Union but adjourned since; ‘1973, came up at the talks.