Ägypten

[Shahab3]

Egypt to revise all foreign gas deals, including Israel's

CAIRO — Egypt's prime minister has asked for the revision off all contracts to supply gas abroad, including to Israel, the official news agency MENA reported on Wednesday.

Egypt supplies an estimated 40 percent of Israel's gas in what, under ousted president Hosni Mubarak, was a highly controversial deal.
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The agreement has been repeatedly challenged in Egyptian courts on the grounds of its secretive clauses and because it was done without parliamentary consultation.
A court imposed an injunction on the deal, in a move ignored by the government.
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Israel's government viewed the ouster of Mubarak, who maintained a reliable if reserved relationship with the Jewish state, with alarm.
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