The Reagan Administration had no comment today on a remark attributed to President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt that the Camp David accords are devoid of substance because Egypt has already gained what it could from them, the Sinai and the oilfields.
State Department spokesman John Hughes, asked if he had heard from the Israelis about that alleged statement or had spoken to the Egyptians about it, replied that he had no information on the subject.
Mubarak was quoted by King Hassan of Morocco during a press conference in Casab lanca last week where the Islamic Conference had agreed to invite Egypt to rejoin that organization. Egypt was suspended after it signed its peace treaty with Israel in 1979.
Meanwhile, the joint U.S.-Israel political-military negotiating group on strategic cooperation met for the first time in Washington today for two days of talks. The American team is headed by Rear Admiral Jonathan Howe, director of Political-Military Affairs at the State Department. According to the Israel Embassy here, the Israeli team is headed by Menachem Meron, Director General of the Defense Ministry. It includes Hanan Bar-On, Deputy Director General of the Foreign Ministry, and Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S., Meir Rosenne. Neither the State Department nor the Embassy would provide details of the agenda.
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