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Source: http://www.timesofisrael.com/morsis-office-confirms-warm-letter-to-peres-is-authentic/
Morsi's Office Confirms Warm Letter to Israeli President Peres
(Times of Israel) A spokesman for Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi confirmed on Thursday that the president had sent a letter to Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres calling him a good friend. The letter, presented to Peres by incoming Egyptian ambassador Atef Salem on Wednesday, sparked an outcry in Egypt for marking a new level of normalization, with one Muslim Brotherhood official calling it a "fabrication." But Morsi spokesman Yassir Ali told the Egyptian state-run newspaper Al Ahram that the letter was "100 percent correct." The letter called Peres a "great and good friend," and expressed a desire for "maintaining and strengthening the cordial relations which so happily exist between our two countries."