Tuesday 17 September 1985
[Egypt] [Official Delegation: DT, Carol Thatcher, Sir Alan Urwick, Stephen Egerton, Charles Powell, Bernard Ingham, Tim Flesher, I. Murray: see THCR 1/10/94 f11 and f46
for programme and local administrative arrangements, respectively]
0845 Leave Tahra Palace
0900 Arrive at Tomb of Unknown Soldier, Nasr City
Lay wreaths at Tomb of Unknown Soldier and President Sadat’s Tomb
0915 Leave president Sadat’s Tomb
0925 Arrive Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery, Heliopolis
Presentation of staff
Lay wreath at the Cross of Sacrifice
Sign Visitors’ Book
0940 Leave for Kubba Palace
1000 Talks with President Mubarak
1200 Press Conference
1220 Leave for Tahra Palace
1230 Meeting with Minister of Defence, Field Marshal Abu Ghazala
1305 Meeting with Prime Minister, Dr. Ali Lutfi
1400 Lunch given by Prime Minister [Dr Ali Lutfi, Field Marshal Abdul Halim Abu Ghazala, Dr Ismat Abdul Magid, Dr Kamal al-Ganzuri, Engineer Muhammed Abdul Wahhab,
Dr Atif Ebeid, Ambassador Yussef Sharara, Ambassador Mostafa Hanafi, HM Ambassador, Egerton, Powell, Ingham, Weston, Col Osborne: THCR 1/10/94 f46]
1515 Leave for British Council
1545 Arrive British Council: met by Mr. Brian Vale
1630 Leave for Ambassador’s Residence
1700 Reception for British Community
1750 Leave for Tahra Palace
1820 Hair
1920 Leave for Kubba Palace
1930 Dinner given by President Mubarak [Dr Rifa’at al-Mahgoub, Dr Ali Lutfi Mahmoud Lutfi, Dr Mostafa Khalil Kamil, Mr Mamdouh Salim, Dr Mohamed Subhy Abdul Hakim,
Field Marshal Muhammad Abdul Halim Abu Ghazala, Dr Ahmed Ismat Abdul Magid, Dr Kamel Ahmed al-Ganzoury, Dr Yusef Amin Wali, Mr Fouad Sarag al-Din,
Mr Mostafa Kamil Murad, Mr Subahy Awad Allah, Engineer Mahmoud Abdul Wahhab, Mr Marcos Antonio de Salvo Coimbra, Ambassador Yufef Sharara,
General Muhammad Nureddin Afifi, Engineer Saad Shaaban, Dr Osama el-Baz, Lt-General Hamdy Hasan Hamdy, Air Marshal Muhammad Abdul Hamid Hilmy,
Vice Admiral Aly Muhammad Tawfiq Gaad, Mr Ahmed Raouf Asad, General Hasan Mahir al-Akhras, Mr Nureddin Farghal, Sharif Omar, Rida Salim, Lord Denham,
Lord Selsdon, David Douglas-Home, DT, Carol Thatcher, Sir Alan Urwick, Stephen Egerton, Charles Powell, Bernard Ingham, Tim Flesher: THCR 1/10/94 f46]
Afterwards Briefing of British press at Tahra Palace
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