Welcoming Foreign Minister of Egypt

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State

Remarks With Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Ali Aboul Gheit Before Their Meeting

Treaty Room

Washington, DC

SECRETARY CLINTON: I’m very pleased to welcome His Excellency, the foreign minister of Egypt, here today. He’s an old friend, someone whom I am always happy to see, and particularly here in my new position as we will work together.

FOREIGN MINISTER GHEIT: I’m sure that we will work together and we will serve our peoples, our nations, our countries in the best way possible.

SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you all.