Welcoming Foreign Minister of Egypt

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
Remarks With Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Ali Aboul Gheit Before Their Meeting
Treaty Room
Washington, DC
February 12, 2009




SECRETARY CLINTON: I’m very pleased to welcome His Excellency, the foreign minister of Egypt, here today. He’s an old friend, someone whom I am always happy to see, and particularly here in my new position as we will work together.

FOREIGN MINISTER GHEIT: I’m sure that we will work together and we will serve our peoples, our nations, our countries in the best way possible.

SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you all.



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