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The United States and Egypt have worked together closely for many years and for many of those years President Mubarak has been a leader, and a counselor, and a friend to the United States. We obviously have a lot of great challenges that have to be dealt with and we are continuing to work together to find those areas where we can find common ground and to work in concert to bring peace and security to the region. The Arab-Israeli situation is something that has been of ongoing interest and we had an extensive conversation about how we could help to jump-start an effective process on all sides to move away from a status quo that is not working for the Israeli people, the Palestinian people or, I think, the region as a whole.

We discussed our common concerns about the potential proliferation of nuclear weapons in the region including the development of nuclear weapons by Iran, and how we could work together on those parts. We discussed Iraq and I want to thank the government of Egypt for being an Arab country that has moved forward to try to strengthen Iraq as it emerges from a wartime footing and in a transition to a more stable democracy.

And we continue to talk about how we can work together on the economic development issues, education issues, health issues that can promote the interests of the American people as well as the Egyptian people. Just to take one example, we’ve agreed to work together with the organization of Islamic states to eradicate polio, something that we’ve been able to successfully deal with, here in the United States, but still has an impact on populations throughout the Muslim communities around the world. And so these are the kinds of partnerships that we want to continue to build. There are some areas where we still have disagreements, some where we do have disagreements, we have a frank and honest exchange.

And so I just want to say once again that I am grateful to President Mubarak for his visit, for his willingness to work with us on these critical issues and help to advance the interests of peace and prosperity around the world. Thank you very much. (Thank you).