U.S. Department of State

U.S. and Egypt: Working Together Through Great Challenges
President Obama (Aug. 18): "The United States and Egypt have worked together closely for many years, and for many of those years President Mubarak has been a leader and a counselor and a friend to the United States. We obviously have a lot of great challenges that have to be dealt with and we are continuing to work together to find those areas where we can find common ground and to work in concert to bring peace and security to the region." -Full Text

Egyptian President Mubarak Visits United States
Assistant Secretary Crowley (Aug. 17): "Secretary Clinton just finished an hour-long meeting with President Mubarak of Egypt, who is obviously in town to meet tomorrow with President Obama, his first trip to Washington in five years. It was a wide-ranging discussion befitting the strategic partnership between Egypt and the United States. They obviously compared notes on the status of efforts by the United States and others to resume a negotiation between Israel and Palestine as part of a comprehensive peace in the Middle East." -Full Text