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Egypt: Trump Should Have Chance to Resolve Mideast Conflict

by Associated Press

   CAIRO --

   Egypt says its president received a call from President-elect Donald
   Trump in which they both agreed to give the incoming U.S.
   administration a chance to try and resolve the Israeli-Palestinian
   conflict.

   The call came hours after Egypt indefinitely postponed a U.N. vote on a
   Security Council resolution criticizing Israeli settlements following
   pressure from Israel and Trump, who had called on members to veto it.

   A statement from the Egyptian presidency says the two men spoke by
   phone early Friday and agreed on "the importance of giving a chance for
   the new American administration to deal in a comprehensive way with the
   different aspects of the Palestinian issue with the aim of achieving a
   comprehensive and a final resolution."