A Conversation with Ahmed Aboul Gheit

Friday, April 18, 2008
Speaker
Ahmed Aboul Gheit
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arab Republic of Egypt
Presider
Thomas R. Pickering
Vice Chairman, Hills & Company

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