U.S. AGREEMENT WITH EGYPT

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24903, 17 June 1946, Page 5

U.S. AGREEMENT WITH EGYPT

AIRPORT NEAR CAIRO HANDED OVER NON-DISCRIMINATORY USE STIPULATED (Rec. 9 p.m.) CAIRO, June 15. Under an agreement concluded between Egypt and the United States, Egypt receives Payne Field, the American airport near Cairo, which cost millions of dollars, and agrees to enter into a bilateral transport agreement with the United States, in accordance with the principles of the Civil Aviation Conference in Chicago in November. 1944. Other points of the agreement are: (1) United States uniformed Army personnel are to be withdrawn from Egypt within six months. (2) Egypt is to, make available the Payne airfield for United States military aircraft for six months, renewable as may be mutually agreed on. (3) Egypt is to designate the field as a civil airport available for use on a non-discriminatory basis. (4) Egypt is to pay the United States £2,250.000 for the remainder of the United States’ military and naval installations and surplus equipment in Egypt, the payment to be spent in Egypt. A joint communique says that the agreement about Payne Field was reached to ensure that the United States shall be able to maintain communications with its forces in the Far East.