Mohammad Ibrahim Kamel, the Egyptian foreign minister who resigned at Camp David on the eve of Egypt and Israel signing their historic peace accords, died Thursday at the age of 74, foreign ministry sources said.
Ministry sources were quoted by AFP as saying he died after a long fight with illness but gave no further information.
During intense negotiations at the Maryland mountain retreat of Camp David, Kamel angrily resigned on September 16, 1978 over concessions late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was making to Israel's then prime minister Menachem Begin on the Palestinian question.
In the 1980s Kamel published his memoirs, "The Lost Peace of the Camp David Accords," denouncing the deal for failing to insist on Israel's withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza Strip as well as the Palestinian right to self-determination.
Egypt – Albawaba.com
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