Egyptian Foreign Minister Fails to Attend Tehran Conference
February 16, 2004
BBC Monitoring
BBC Monitoring Newsfile
Tehran -- Ahmad Mahir, the Egyptian foreign minister, has failed to attend the D-8 conference.
According to the political-foreign affairs reporter of the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), whilst it was expected that Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Mahir would be heading the Egyptian delegation that has come to Iran to attend the D-8 conference, he failed to attend the seventh ministerial meeting of the D-8 countries and only a representative from the Egyptian government attended the conference.
Text of report by Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) web site
Source: ISNA web site, Tehran, in Persian 0759 gmt 16 Feb 04
http://www.monitor.bbc.co.uk/Snubbing the regime. Good.