Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Sunday rejected calls by parliament members and journalists in Cairo for the return of Umm Rashrash – or Eilat, in Hebrew – to Egypt, and said that anyone who brought the subject up for discussion was only trying to create problems. The foreign minister’s statement was meant to stem a renewed interest among opposition MPs and the Egyptian press in seeing Umm Rashrash return to Egyptian ownership. The subject recently gained media attention with the establishment of the People’s Front for the Liberation of Umm Rashrash, a group founded by Egyptian MP Tala’at
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