king to the terms of the 1979 peace treaty, Mubarak held Egypt at from Israel, keeping the diplomatic air cool for most of the 1980s in an reintegrate Egypt with the rest of the Arab world. In 1984, Egypt restored C attemp Soviet Union and was readmitted to the Islamic Conference, and 988 the Arab League had invited Egypt to rejoin and dropped demands that C F it sever ties with Israel. In 1991, having led part of the Arab world against Iraq in 1 Culf War Egypt was invited to head the Arab League, marking the country’s re-ie nce at tne helm of the Arab world. In June 1992 Mubarak met with new Weli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the first meeting of leaders of the two countries in six years. Egypt is also beginning to recapture its former position of power within the world arena; in 1992, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, a respected Egyptian diplomat involved in the Camp David negotiations, became the new UN Secretary-General. These achievements, however, have been overshadowed by the violent events on the domestic scene.