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Tourists come back in the Valley of Pharaohs.

				
				
				
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Tourists come back in the Valley of Pharaohs.
   It is necessary to give due to tsarina Hatshepsut, ordered to cut down
Temple in the basis of the high mountain which have hung over the Valley of Pharaohs, on other
Which end among hills there was a city dead - tombs of Pharaohs...
   Despite the past since then centuries, wars, earthquakes,
The temple was saved in decent enough status. Amaze and today lists
On walls. It seems, that they have been written only yesterday so it is bright and juicy
Colour of paints - one of unsolved till now secrets of ancient Egyptians.
   Between tombs of Pharaohs and a temple the black tape of road is twisted,
On which as if businki an amber necklace, hundreds clay are strung
Small houses with flat roofs. In them those who is anyhow connected with live
The tourism industry - makes and sells souvenirs, cleans, guards.
   ... Terrorists was six. They have dashing driven on a jeep to the last
To the house before a temple, have reserved coffee. Black uniforms were it very much to the person
Special troops.
   But here from a city of the dead big bus "Mercedes" has seemed
With tourists. It has smoothly driven to a box with the soldiers protecting a temple,
Has braked. The first tourists had not time to leave the bus, as nearby
The jeep with the six of fighters in the black form has stopped. Murderers standing, almost
Aiming, from a hip, have opened fire on people. Through pair minutes all was
All over.
   ... This crime of Islamic fundamentalists has shaken not only
Egypt, but also all world. 62 persons were lost. Four - Egyptians, the others
Were citizens of some the European countries. Russians among them, fortunately, not
Was.
   The shots which have sounded in the Valley of Pharaohs, at bottom of a temple of the tsarina
Hatshepsut, were not casual. As has declared to us at a meeting in Cairo
The deputy minister of tourism ARE mister Abdel Aziz, is, probably, in
The world, including in the West, those it is not pleasant to whom independent
Policy of Egypt. And the best way to "teach a good lesson" obstinate Egyptians, than
To strike on the tourism industry, was not. As fanatics
Fundamentalists are ready on everything that if and not to fall down then
To weaken a mode existing in the country...
   Six millions tourists (among them - more than hundred thousand from Russia)
Leave in the country of 3,6 billion dollars annually. It more than incomes
From Suez canal, a clap and oil extracting. Turindustrija feeds millions
Egyptians... Mass refusal of tourists of trips on coast of Nile Has begun.
   The government of Egypt and president ARE Hosni Mubarak have accepted
Extraordinary measures on position rescue. Privileges have been urgently entered on
All international flights. Duties on reception of visas are cancelled. Have removed
The tax to charter flights. Have twice reduced the prices for internal airlines.
The prices in the best seaside hotels have sharply fallen. But, the main thing, have been accepted
The strict measures on protection of tourists. President H.Mubarak at a meeting with
Foreign diplomats has declared, that it now itself "the guarantor such
Safety ".
   At last, in December in the Valley of Pharaohs some thousand were going to
The person, that pochtit memory of innocent victims of Islamic fundamentalism.
And among them the president and prime minister ARE, ambassadors of the states, citizens
Which have suffered in this tragedy. At their presence the winner Nobel
Awards under literature Nadzhib Nafuz has addressed to nations of the world with the message:
"From brilliant Thebes, presented to mankind light of the civilisation with
This earth - a beauty source, from bottom of the temples which have confirmed sanctity
Soul and the human rights, we address to all world. We divide it
Pain and its anger, we grieve together with families innocently lost. But ours
The pain is even stronger, because the wound is put not to separate people, and all
To the Egyptian people. From the Valley of Pharaohs we send to all world the apologies
And condolences.
   From this sacred earth belonging to all world, we remind,
That the history has prospectuses on which go sozidateli and reformers,
And there are also back streets where those who has chosen darkness hide. But our great people
Together with all mankind will expel destroyers and will construct the future for
New, free generations which will be grateful to the grandfathers -
sozidateljam and letopistsam histories... ".
   Already after a meeting in Luxor representatives of France and Germany declared,
That will not interfere with the citizens, wished to spend Christmas
And New year in Egypt to go to coast of Nile or to Red sea.
Probably, many of them will visit Luxor and the Valley of Pharaohs.
   And then after suddenly fallen night over the Valley of Pharaohs
Again the first rays of light will seem...
                     Vladislav CHUKANOV.
                     Luxor - Cairo - Moscow.
//* an information Source: the Russian newspaper, 27.12.97
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