CAIRO: United Arab Republic said yesterday [Aug 22] the United States must be held responsible for time lost in getting indirect Arab-Israe­­li peace contacts underway during the 90-day Middle East ceasefire. The comment by the Go­­vernment spokesman came as President Nasser and King Hussein were holding final round of their talks yesterday in Alexandria on Middle East developments and joint strategy at the proposed indirect peace talks before the Jordanian monarch’s departure for Amman today.

Meanwhile, Israel today named Foreign Minister Abba Eban as the country’s representative at the peace talks and the Israeli Permanent Delegate at the United Nations, Yossef Tekoah, as acting representative….

Premier Abdel Munim Rifai … told Pressmen on arrival in Amman: “All aspects of the situation were discussed and analysed, the confrontation with Israel and the diplomatic and military situation and co-ordination of action of the UAR and Jordan. … Our points of view on the development of the situation were completely in accord and there was complete agreement on the common responsibilities which we must bear for the maintenance of the national (Arab) cause.”

Published in Dawn, August 24th, 2020