Marketing campaigns to be launched to resuscitate Egyptian tourism. Chambers of Commerce conference reviews tax exemption, supply-demand mechanism. Egypt secures self-sufficiency in fertilizers production. Arab forum explores avenues of encouraging small industries. Basic infra-structure underway in Aqaba Gulf.
Tourism industry resumes active performance.
The French Muslim philosopher Roger Garaudy is currently in Cairo basking in Egyptian hospitality, and given the honors he most rightly deserves. Garaudy is on trial in France for anti-Semitism and is currently awaiting the French Court s ruling. As a matter of course, we cannot accept the argument that Arab regimes are dictatorial on the whole. We believe they are undergoing the transition to modernization and democracy. The link between the nature of these regimes and a possible inclination towards war is intended to reduce the unstable state of peace in the Middle East to that very link, ignoring the root cause for instability which lies in Israeli usurpation of Arab rights and territories.