Diplomatic relations between the United States and Egypt will soon be at the level prior to the Six-Day War. The State Department announced today that it expects to reopen its Consulate-General in Alexandria in mid-May and that the Cairo government will reactivate its Consulate-General in New York, too. Department spokesman John King said that the U.S. move is in keeping with “the increasing commercial and other activities” resulting from the flow of diplomatic relations that resumed Feb. 28.
While diplomatic ties formally were severed by Egypt in June 1967, the consulate relationship was not broken. Both nations, however closed down their offices in New York and Alexandria as well as their embassies in Washington and Cairo, the Egyptians being the first to do so in each case.
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