Mubarak, Menem support nuclear-free MidEast. Iraq to let UN into 8 sites, says FM Moussa. Russian President Borris Yeltsin warns of World War III over Iraq. President confers with intellectuals at Cairo Book Fair. Talks in Cairo on peace impasse.
Meeting discusses making use of Arab funds for encouraging foreign, regional investment.
New team to set up economic maps for villages 100 Arab, foreign diplomats to visit Tushki this month. British Minister to discuss investments in Egypt. Almost except for Kuwait, the entire Arab capitals stand firm against the planned American military action. This opposition is motivated by the deeply-rooted conviction in the Arab Nation that the US is at pains to further cripple Iraq regardless of ample indications that the military response would compound the situation, and that the step is clearly aimed at maintaining the Israeli supremacy over the whole Arab Nation. Except for Britain, the rest of the Western allies and major powers elsewhere have been exhorting Washington to give diplomacy a full chance in order to defuse the crisis.