Egypt: Cairo commentary for 19 September 02.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

[Summary of commentary by Adilah Abd-al-Nassir: "Egypt's far-sighted foreign policy achieves its security and serves its national interests].

Foreign policy is an important facet of the Egyptian leadership day-to-day political action; this was apparent in the eighth conference of the National Democratic Party and its intensive activities that resulted in radical changes in the party's policies and structure.

In his address before the conference, Egyptian President Husni Mubarak stressed that Egypt's national security and interests will remain the core of our foreign policy; the party's meetings also …