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Article: Arab officials meet in Egypt over piracy.
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- Daily News Egypt (Egypt)
- Article date:
- November 20, 2008
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CAIRO: Egypt hosted an emergency meeting Thursday of six Arab countries trying to forge a joint strategy against piracy in the Gulf of Aden, which threatens a crucial international trade route through the Suez Canal in the Red Sea -- Egypt's key source of revenue.
The countries in the meeting were those who with Egypt share the Red Sea -- Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Jordan. A representative from Somalia's transitional government also attended the meeting behind closed doors in Cairo.
Egyptian diplomat Wafaa Bassem said ahead of the talks that the meeting would look into several options. They include setting up a piracy monitoring center, joint ...
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