The World - News from Feb. 7, 1986
Israeli and Egyptian officials reported progress in talks on terms for arbitration to resolve their dispute over a sliver of Red Sea beach in the Sinai called Taba. “There is a great deal of progress. We have done good work and we will continue,” the director general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, David Kimche, said in Cairo after meeting with Egyptian Foreign Minister Esmat Abdel Meguid. The meeting on the Taba dispute was called “fruitful and businesslike” by Meguid, who said he thought a separate committee had made progress on improving relations between the two countries.
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