CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi vowed on Wednesday (Sep 18) to accentuate Gaza peace talks in a gathering with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken geared toward salvaging the negotiations.
Blinken’s go to to Cairo got here hours after a wave of lethal blasts focusing on Hezbollah in Lebanon that additional difficult the Gaza talks.
This marks Blinken’s tenth journey to the Center East because the begin of the struggle within the Gaza Strip practically a 12 months in the past. No different regional stops, together with Israel, had been on his itinerary.
Following the 90-minute assembly, Sisi’s workplace mentioned the pair mentioned “methods to accentuate joint efforts between Egypt, the US and Qatar to make progress on ceasefire negotiations and the change of hostages and detainees”.
Sisi additionally referred to as for “decisive intervention to take away obstacles to the entry of giant quantities of support” to Gaza and “ending Israeli violations in the West Bank“, it mentioned.
Violence has surged within the Israeli-occupied West Financial institution because the struggle broke out in Gaza, with Israel conducting large-scale raids in current weeks.
Earlier than the assembly, US officers mentioned privately they didn’t count on any breakthroughs in Cairo, although Blinken would search to maintain up the strain for a deal between Israel and Hamas.
“He’ll be assembly with Egyptian officers about quite a few issues, however squarely on the agenda is how we get a proposal that we predict would safe settlement from each events,” mentioned State Division spokesman Matthew Miller on Tuesday.
Miller declined to “put a timetable on after we would put that proposal ahead”, saying Washington needed “a proposal that is going to get a sure”.
“It is crucial that we … cease the haggling backwards and forwards.”
