Region | Egypt
US 'to work with Mideast'
President Barack Obama meets with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo.
- AP
- Published: 11:58 June 4, 2009
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- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (left) greets US President Barack Obama upon his arrival at Qubba palace in Cairo Egypt on Thursday, May 4, 2009. President Obama is due to address the Muslim world in a speech during his visit to Egypt .
Cairo: President Barack Obama says the United States is committed to working in partnership with the countries in the Middle East.
The US president said he sent that message when he met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
The two also were talking about the long-running conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, and discussing how to bring peace in the Middle East.
Obama thanked Mubarak for his hospitality, and praised him as a man who has decades of experience on a range of issues.
They met before Obama delivered what aides called a dose of "truth-telling" about the often fraught relations between Americans and Muslims to a vast, electronically linked-in global audience.
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