Egypt Closes Baghdad Diplomatic Mission
By SALAH NASRAWI,
Associated Press Writer Thu Jul 7, 4:37 PM ET
CAIRO, Egypt - Egypt will temporarily shut its diplomatic mission in Iraq' and has recalled its staff to Cairo, an official said Thursday, after a militant group claimed to have killed Egypt's top envoy in Baghdad.
The announcement came hours after President Hosni Mubarak' condemned the killing of the country's top envoy to Baghdad at the hands of Islamic militants.
Egypt also asked the U.N. Security Council' on Thursday to urgently address the issue of protecting diplomats in Iraq following the killing of Ihab al-Sherif.
Egypt's U.N. Ambassador Maged Abdelaziz said he met with Greece's U.N. Ambassador Adamantios Vassilakis, the current council president, to request that the council try to find "ways and means to improve the life and protection of diplomatic missions ... in Iraq."
Speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, the official said the remaining staff in Baghdad — six diplomats and six adminstrative staff — were ordered to leave Baghdad on Friday >>>continued
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Associated Press Writer Thu Jul 7, 4:37 PM ET
CAIRO, Egypt - Egypt will temporarily shut its diplomatic mission in Iraq' and has recalled its staff to Cairo, an official said Thursday, after a militant group claimed to have killed Egypt's top envoy in Baghdad.
The announcement came hours after President Hosni Mubarak' condemned the killing of the country's top envoy to Baghdad at the hands of Islamic militants.
Egypt also asked the U.N. Security Council' on Thursday to urgently address the issue of protecting diplomats in Iraq following the killing of Ihab al-Sherif.
Egypt's U.N. Ambassador Maged Abdelaziz said he met with Greece's U.N. Ambassador Adamantios Vassilakis, the current council president, to request that the council try to find "ways and means to improve the life and protection of diplomatic missions ... in Iraq."
Speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, the official said the remaining staff in Baghdad — six diplomats and six adminstrative staff — were ordered to leave Baghdad on Friday >>>continued
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050707/ap_on_re_mi_ea/egypt_iraq
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