Reaction to White Paper

We would like to start off by saying that we were very pleased that other countries agreed with our statements to continue the peace talks between Israel and Palestinian Officials. We believe this is essential to create peace in the Middle East. On the other hand we were very disappointed by other factors during the meeting. After Saudi Arabia and Egypt were both united in stating that we would not tolerate Syria’s continuous funding of Hezbollah, Syria stated that they will continue to fund them. We can not tolerate this and Saudi Arabia and Egypt are going to have to talk with all of our allies about what our next move will be in order to encourage Syria to stop the funding of Hezbollah. We do not want this issue to resolve in any conflict and would like the issue to be solved diplomatically. As always terrorism is something that Egypt takes very seriously. We were also a little surprised by the reaction France had to Egypt stating that we are more strongly considering developing Nuclear Weapons. First of all I would like to state that in no way have we begun to develop Nuclear Weapons in our country. We have only stated that in light of the recent developments involving Hezbollah we may feel a stronger need to develop these weapons in the future in order to protect our citizens. We were surprised that France did not trust that if these weapons were created we would be able to protect them from terrorists obtaining them. We will be consulting with our allies tomorrow and will come up with more solutions to ultimately lead to peace throughout the Middle East.