Egypt Chief of Staff Major General Mahmoud Hegazy and director general of MFO Robert Steve Beecroft (Photo:Egyptian armed forces)
Egypt's Army Chief of Staff Mahmoud Hegazy met on Sunday in Cairo with the new director-general of the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) in Sinai Robert S. Beecroft to discuss coordination and cooperation between the Egyptian Armed Forces and the MFO, the Egyptian army announced.
The meeting was attended by a number of Egyptian military officials.
A former US ambassador to Cairo who finished his three-year term in June, Beercroft replaced David Satterfield in July as the director-general of the MFO in Sinai, which observes the peace between Egypt and Israel according to the Annex I to the 1979 Treaty of Peace between the two countries.
The MFO was officially founded in 1981 following the peace treaty.There are 13 countries participating in the MFO including the United States, United Kingdom, Norway and Fiji.
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