U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked Egypt’s foreign minister to keep open communication with Israel, amid tensions over Cairo’s deployment of forces to the Sinai Peninsula, the State Department said Thursday.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters that Clinton on Wednesday spoke by telephone to Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr as unease grew in Israel over the deployment of troops in the Sinai, contrary to the 1979 peace treaty between the two countries.
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