President Anwar Sadat yesterday appointed Egypt’s Ambassador to West Germany, Mohammed Ibrahim Kaamel, as his new Foreign Minister. The 50-year-old career diplomat will fill the post left vacant when Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy resigned last month in protest against Sadat’s peace initiative and his decision to visit Jerusalem. Kaamel will lead the Egyptian negotiators when the Cairo conference enters its second stage of talks on the foreign ministers level next month.
A lawyer by profession and son of a former Supreme Court judge, Kaamel became acquainted with Sadat when both were imprisoned by the British during World War II. They have kept up their friendship ever since then. People who know Kaamel well describe him as “straight-forward and very courageous.” (By David Landau)
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