President Bush reaffirmed his support for peace in the Middle East in a greeting to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak sent Monday on the occasion of his country’s Independence Day.
“Working together, we can meet our common goals, chief of which is our desire for peace in the Middle East,” Bush wrote Mubarak on the 38th anniversary of the overthrow of King Farouk.
State Department officials read nothing into the letter beyond its ceremonial nature.
The message comes more than a month after Egypt was dealt a blow when the United States suspended its dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Little, if any, progress has been made on the peace process since then, but Egypt and other countries are anxiously awaiting a meeting Aug. 9 or 10 between Secretary of State James Baker and Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy.
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