Ismail Fahmi

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Ismail Fahmi (1975)
On October 31, 1973, a week after the end of the Yom Kippur War , Foreign Secretary Fahmi met with Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger .

Ismail Fahmi ( Arabic اسماعيل فهمى, DMG Ismāʿīl Fahmī , also Ismail Fahmy ; born October 2, 1922 in Cairo , Kingdom of Egypt ; died November 21, 1997 ibid) was an Egyptian diplomat and politician. 1973–1977 he was Egyptian Foreign Minister .

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Ismail Fahmi was born in Cairo in 1922, the son of a lawyer. He completed his political science studies at Cairo University in 1945 and joined the Egyptian Foreign Ministry in 1946. From 1949 to 1957 he was a member of the Egyptian delegation to the UN , then to 1959 at the IAEA . 1968–1969 he was Egyptian ambassador to Austria, 1969–1970 to France. From 1971 to 1973 he was Deputy Foreign Minister. After the October War 1973 he was appointed Foreign Minister by President Sadat , and in 1975 he was also Deputy Prime Minister. He held these offices until November 1977.

In previous years, during his diplomatic activity, Fahmi had formulated the guidelines that Egypt had to follow in order to gradually approach the USA from 1971 after the expulsion of Soviet experts and after the October War 1973, with the aim of those in the Six Day War in 1967 regain lost Sinai Peninsula . These guidelines were initially taken up and followed by Sadat. However, when Sadat began his surprising trip to Israel in November 1977 , which led to the peace treaty between the two states in March 1979 , Fahmi resigned from his government offices. In his 1983 book Negotiating for Peace in the Middle East , he described his “resolute opposition” to Sadat's trip to Jerusalem at the time , adding: “I believed it would jeopardize Egypt's national security and our relations with the other Arab states destroy our claim to leadership in the Arab world. "

After his resignation from the government in 1977, Fahmi worked as a university lecturer. He died in Cairo in 1997. His son Nabil Fahmi also became a diplomat and was Egyptian foreign minister from 2013-2014.

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  1. ↑ Jasmin Besma Ali: The Change of Political Actors in the Egyptian Political System from 1952-2012, p. 56
  2. ↑ Eric Pace: Ismail Fahmy; Minister, 75, Quit Sadat . In The New York Times , November 24, 1997
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SURNAME Fahmi, Ismail
ALTERNATIVE NAMES اسماعيل فهمى (Arabic); Ismail Fahmy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian diplomat and foreign minister
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1997
Place of death Cairo