Mubarak wants execution of agreements from al-Bashir
Egypt-Sudan, Politics, 7/14/1999

The first meeting in three years was held between Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in Algeria on Monday night, on the sidelines of the 35th current African summit.

President Mubarak said that they considered security, Egyptian property in Sudan, and the projected Sudanese reconciliation conferences to be held in Cairo and Khartoum.

Mubarak said al-Bashir assured that he pays heed to these files and will execute what has been agreed upon. The President said that he has talked with him, listened to him and to his readiness to have all the measures the two sides agreed upon implemented, but Mubarak said he would like to see the facts, touch them and see that the agreements are truly executed.

The Egyptian president said that he was frank with President al-Bashir and did not hesitate to say anything and al-Bashir responded to him. "And we are waiting for the implementation," President Mubarak told al-Bashir.

This is, however, the first meeting between the two presidents since their meeting made on the framework of the recent Arab Cairo summit of 1996.

Relations between the two states have been greatly deteriorated after Cairo had accused Khartoum of being behind the attempt on the life of President Mubarak in June 1995 in Addis Ababa. But rapprochement started in 1997 between the two states, who have been for months discussing full normalization of bilateral relations.

Meanwhile, Sudanese Foreign Minister Muhammad Othman Ismael said that al-Bashir and the Egyptian president discussed in their meeting on the sidelines of the African summit "obstacles impeding the progress of bilateral relations between the two countries."

He said that the two presidents "stressed the importance of eliminating these obstacles and of opening a new page and restoring the relations to what had been in the past," adding that the two states' foreign ministers were assigned to continue work for settling pending matters.

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