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April 10, 2000
 

Israeli and Egyptian Officials to Discuss Mideast Peace

Who: Ambassador Ahmed Aboul Gheit, permanent representative of Egypt to the United Nations, and Ambassador Yehuda Lancry, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations
What: Lecture on "Light at the End of the Tunnel? Costs and Benefits of Mideast Peace for the International Community"
When: Monday, April 17 at 7:30 p.m.
Where: The Harold Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50 on the Princeton campus

This lecture, sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the United Nations Association of the United States, will focus on the current prospects for peacemaking between Israelis and Syrians and Israelis and Palestinians. The feared costs and desired gains of a peace settlement will be discussed as well as the benefits of Mideast peace for the international community.

Ambassador Aboul Gheit joined the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1965 and assumed his current position as permanent representative of Egypt to the United Nations in 1999. Ambassador Lancry is the 12^th permanent representative of Israel to the United Nations. He was a member of the Israeli parliament from 1996-1999 and served as ambassador to France from 1992-1995.

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