In an interview with the Associated Press prior to his departure, the president spoke of his desire to break free of the last vestiges of the Cold War.

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One of the those Arab officials at the meeting, the Egyptian Finance Minister Medhat Hassanein, said afterwards in a BBC interview that a Middle East and US free trade area, even one including Israel, is a eventually a possibility, but only if there is first what he called a just peace in the region.

BBC: Peace process hangs over talks

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